Re: [idn] Question for the Kanji & Hanja cognosentee

["Bruce Thomson" <bthomson@fm-net.ne.jp>]

> By the way, how do you Romanize a word containing
> Kanji and Kana?
> 

There are two steps:

1) Convert all Kanji to kana. Anything that can be pronounced
in Japanese can be expressed as the kana equivalent of that
pronunciation. However, Kanji cannot be converted one at a time
as many words are unique combinations of Kanji with special
pronuncations. Also, there can be multiple pronunciations for the
same Kanji string.

2) Once you have everything in kana, convert to "Romaji"
(Romanized characters) using the Hepburn system. Here
are the Romaji equivalents of all the modern kana:

a  i  u  e  o
ka ki ku ke ko
sa shi su se so
ta chi tsu te to
na ni nu ne no
ha hi fu he ho
ma mi mu me mo
ya yu yo
ra ri ru re ro
wa wo
n

There is a further complication in that a small kana
tsu is used to represent a double consonant when
a word is written as kana, whereas the consonant
is merely written twice in the Romaji equivalent.

By the way, Japanese keyboard input is usually
handled by typing Romaji which can then be
converted to kana and further converted into
Kanji.

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/japanese.htm
http://www.kanjisite.com/wak1.html