Japanese Online Keyboard: Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana.
Every word in the Japanese language can be written in hiragana. Kanji: Used to represent Japanese words with a single symbol and should be learned after you have a good working knowledge of hiragana. Romaji: Allows you to write Japanese words using the English alphabet. As tempting as it may be to focus on what looks familiar, you really should.
This Japanese Keyboard enables you to easily type Japanese online without installing Japanese keyboard. You can use your computer keyboard or mouse to type Japanese letters (Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana) with this online keyboard. In Kana mode, click or press the Space key to toggle between Hiragana input and Katakana input.
In Japanese, sometimes a word is written with katakana instead of kanji or hiragana.This may happen for a number of reasons. First and foremost, if a word does not have kanji, or if you want to write a word without kanji for some reason, it's generally better to write it with katakana instead of writing it with hiragana. This happens because hiragana is normally used to write the stuff.
Students are given a Conan Code sheet with the hiragana chart converted into number codes. Students are then shown number clues for Japanese words (number clues are provided on the PowerPoint slides). Students use the number clues to write romaji and hiragana. They then read the Japanese word and guess what it is in English.
This flash animation should help you learn how the Hiragana is written. Each sign consits of a number of pen strokes. In Japanese, for every glyph, there is a certain stoke order and stroke direction.
Mainly the text is written with hiragana and kanji in current Japanese language. Katakana is used when they write word or name from non Chinese countries and when they are designated to write katakana. And when they don't know kanji, they write hiragana or katakatana instead of kanji.
Writing exclusively in hiragana is okay, but makes it a bit more difficult to read. Words can get “jumbled” together because Japanese doesn’t use spaces. It’s also a bit childish to write only in hiragana — children write exclusively in hiragana until they start learning kanji in grade school.