Romanize Japanese Hiragana and Katakana

Usage

strj_romanize(
  text,
  config = c("wikipedia", "traditional hepburn", "modified hepburn", "kunrei", "nihon")
)

Arguments

text: Character vector. If elements are composed of except but hiragana and katakana letters, those letters are dropped from the return value.
config: Configuration used to romanize. Default is wikipedia.

Value

A character vector.

Details

There are several ways to romanize Japanese. Using this implementation, you can convert hiragana and katakana as 5 different styles; the wikipedia style, the traditional hepburn style, the modified hepburn style, the kunrei style, and the nihon style.

Note that all of these styles return a slightly different form of stringi::stri_trans_general(text, "Any-latn").

Examples

strj_romanize(
  paste0(
    "\u3042\u306e\u30a4\u30fc\u30cf\u30c8",
    "\u30fc\u30f4\u30a9\u306e\u3059\u304d",
    "\u3068\u304a\u3063\u305f\u98a8"
  )
)
#> [1] "anoīhatōvonosukitōtta"