Illustration: At a Japanese community language exchange, a Japanese tutor and an overseas beginner practice the name of a small ceramic animal placed between them. The tutor slowly shapes the pronunciation with a clearly visible mouth movement.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ローマ字じ

roomaji

romanized Japanese

Example sentences

  1. 日本語にほんごを入力にゅうりょくする時ときって、ひらがな入力にゅうりょくしてる?それともローマ字じ入力にゅうりょく?

    When you type in Japanese, are you using hiragana input, or romaji input?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ローマ字じで日本語にほんごを綴つづって発音はつおんを示しめした。

    He transliterated Japanese pronunciation using the English alphabet.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 辞典じてんの普及ふきゅうに伴ともない、ヘボン式しきローマ字じの名なで知しられるようになった。

    As use of the dictionary became widespread, the Hepburn system of Romanization became known.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 字

  • 字character; letterOnジKunあざ・あざな

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