![]() ![]() The Mac converts this to 田中さんは医者です。(Tanaka-san is a doctor). Then you can correct things that are not quite right and continue.īelow I've typed Tanakasanhaishadesu and hit space bar. Press return again (or continue typing) and the underline will disappear, indicating your choice is finalized.įor beginners, the easiest way to enter Japanese is a little bit at a time: before typing each kanji compound hit return to finalize what you've entered up to that point, then enter the pronunciation and select the correct kanji as described above, hit return again to finalize your choice, and then continue.īut when you get some more experience, you can type Japanese faster by entering a whole sentence and then hitting the space bar and letting the input system try to figure things out: it will convert the appropriate words to kanji, taking its best guess about which kanji to use, and leave other portions in kana. Highlight the one you want and press return to enter it in the document and dismiss the pop up window. If you linger on one, you can sometimes get a pop-up window with a definition for the kanji. You can cycle through them by hitting space bar, shift+space bar, or the up and down arrows. Now press space bar twice, and you'll see a pop-up window showing different kanji compounds with that pronunciation. If you type genki you'll see げんき appear in the document (with an underline). You can also enter kanji compounds by typing their pronunciation. You should see it converted to hiragana かきくけこ as you type. Open TextEdit, the simple text processor that comes with macOS, select "Hiragana" from the input menu in the upper right of the menu bar, type kakikukeko in roman characters. Once Japanese input is enabled on your system, you can enter Japanese by typing the pronunciations on your English keyboard. Later you can try turning them on to see if they make things easier, but the tutorial below works best with them off. These options are descirbed in more detail below. Once you get to Japanese preferences, scroll down and make sure the boxes next to "Live Conversion" and "Predictive Candidates" are unchecked. Select Hiragana from the input menu in the upper right of the computer's menu bar, then click on the input menu again and select "Open Japanese - Romaji preferences…" at the bottom. In addition, if you are learning Japanese input, things may be less confusing to begin with if you turn off the "Predictive candidates" and "Live Conversion" options. Before you Startīefore you start, you will need to follow the instructions on the first page of this site, to enable the Japanese input system on your Mac. You can use these instructions with any application that supports Japanese: a text editor, email program, web browser, etc. This is a short guide to entering Japanese characters on a Mac. ![]()
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