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Look words up in romaji

Read Latin letters as modified Hepburn or Kunrei romaji when looking a word up, and turn romaji into kana.

Romaji

Pass romaji: true to loadWords and wordsOf, and a text of Latin letters is read as modified Hepburn or Kunrei. A doubled consonant is っ, n' and nn are ん, and a macron or circumflex is a long vowel. A reading writes a long vowel more than one way (Tōkyō is とうきょう, a loanword's bar is ー), so every way is looked up, at most eight. It is off unless asked, because CD and AI are written forms too: a text that is not romaji is looked up as a written form either way.

import {kanaFromRomaji,loadWords,romajiToKana,wordsOf} from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/words";
const words=await loadWords(["kami","kōhī"],{romaji:true});
console.log(wordsOf(words,"kami",{romaji:true})[0]?.written);
console.log(wordsOf(words,"kōhī",{romaji:true}).map((one)=>one.reading));
console.log(romajiToKana("shinbun"),kanaFromRomaji("kōhī").slice(0,2));

紙
[ 'コーヒー' ]
しんぶん [ 'こうひい', 'こーひー' ]

Look words up in romaji

Romaji

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