Japanese to romaji converter
Convert kanji, hiragana and katakana into readable romaji. Check word readings, preserve line breaks, and copy the result.
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Convert and review ambiguous readings.
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18 / 3,000 characters · Text is sent to Inklingo for conversion and is not saved by this tool. This converts readings, not meanings.
Dictionary: Kuromoji / IPADIC. Sources and licenses.
Make sense of what you’re practicing
Reading, not translation
東京 becomes toukyou, not “Tokyo” as an English place-name translation. This tool shows how Japanese is read; it does not translate sentence meanings.
A practical romanization
Readings use familiar Hepburn consonants: shi, chi, tsu and fu. Long vowels retain kana spelling, so こう is kou and コーヒー is koohii. This preserves information for learners instead of silently dropping long vowels.
Particles and word breaks
は, へ and を become wa, e and o when the analyzer identifies them as particles. Optional spaces follow dictionary word boundaries, which may separate endings. Names and ambiguous readings can be corrected in the review panel.