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Jisho辞書

The words of JMdict looked up by reading, written form, English meaning, a kanji in them or romaji, in small pieces fetched as needed, safe by default or unfiltered with every sense's marks, and the school grades, JLPT levels, readings, meanings and look-alike pairs of 2,999 kanji, each table an entry point of its own.

Jisho is the Japanese word 辞書 for a dictionary: this one holds Japanese words and kanji. About the name

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Reference · Look words up by reading, written form, English meaning, kanji or romaji

foldKanafunction

A text folded to hiragana: the katakana move down, ー and everything else stay. The reading of a loanword is found by either.

Import it

import { foldKana } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/words";

Definition

function foldKana(text: string): string

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
textstring

Any text.

Returns

string

The text with each katakana changed to the hiragana of the same sound.

Examples

import { foldKana } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/words";

console.log(foldKana("カミ")); // かみ
かみ

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/jisho 2.11.0.