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Hepburn (modified Hepburn, the default) writes シ shi, チ chi, ツ tsu, フ fu, ジ ji, and long vowels (ー) with a
macron: コーヒー kōhī. A small ッ doubles the next consonant (kitto), and before ch it is written
t (マッチ matchi). ン is n, and n' before a vowel or y.
Kunrei-shiki writes si, ti, tu, hu, zi, sya, tya, zya and marks long vowels with a circumflex
(kôhî). Nihon-shiki is the same, except that ヂ and ヅ stay distinct (di, du).
Neither system has official spellings for the extended katakana of foreign sounds; the trainer uses the Hepburn spelling
(ファ fa, ウィ wi, ヴァ va), except where that would mean a different kana in Kunrei/Nihon-shiki, where it uses the common input
spellings: ティ thi, ディ dhi, トゥ twu, ドゥ dwu, and シェ sye,
チェ tye, ジェ zye.
In every style you may type a long vowel as a doubled vowel or with a hyphen (koohii, ko-hi-) if
macrons are awkward to type; the keys under the answer box insert ā ī ū ē ō (or â î û ê ô).
Levels. 1: basic kana only · 2: adds dakuten ゛, handakuten ゜, ー and ン · 3: adds small ャュョ and ッ · 4: extended kana for foreign sounds (ファ, ティ, ヴァ …) and words of 8–9 morae · 5: long compounds and phrases.
Sources. Words, translations and loanword origins come from JMdict by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under the EDRDG licence (CC BY-SA 4.0), via jmdict-simplified. Only entries written in katakana alone are used; company, product and personal names, slang and rare words are left out. Typefaces: Noto Sans JP, Noto Serif JP, Klee One and Zen Kurenaido (SIL Open Font License).
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