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

[liana.ydisg@juno.com]

Then can you say Romaji is a good enough IDN 
identifier?  Can you reverse Romaji to Kana or 
even to Kanji with say very high one-to-one rate?

Liana

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:15:58 +0900 "Bruce Thomson"
<bthomson@fm-net.ne.jp> writes:
> > 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
> 
> 
>