In Kana mode, click or press the Space key to toggle between Hiragana input and Katakana input. In Kanji mode, as you type the Chinese or Japanese reading of a character in English, suggested Kanji characters will be displayed on the number key row. Use ◂ and ▸ keys to view the prev/next suggestions. Morisawa fonts are fonts that are in the top position in market shares in the Japanese printing and publishing industry. We also carry the Ming typeface, which is compatible with Kanji tattoos and other Kanji products, so please request to use it if you so wish.
Japanese (日本語) is the national language of Japan. It is the language spoken by Japanese people in Japan as well as Japanese communities in other countries.
The Japanese writing system combines three separate scripts: kanji, hiragana and katakana. Kanji is the Japanese name for Chinese logographic characters. Some changes have occurred since the introduction of Chinese characters, but most kanji are identical or similar to their counterparts in Traditional Chinese writing. There are thousands of kanji, with each representing a small number of meanings, and having several possible pronunciations, usually at least one “native” Japanese reading and one originally based on Chinese pronunciation. Today, functional literacy in Japanese requires knowledge of over 2000 kanji. Many words in Japanese are written by combining two or more kanji characters, or by combining them with the other scripts.
Hiragana and katakana are both syllabaries, meaning that each character represents a single syllable, usually combining one consonant and one vowel sound. Each syllabary has 46 base characters in common use today, with some variations to indicate changes in the consonant sound or to represent sounds uncommon to Japanese. In modern Japanese, katakana is mostly used to write loan words from other languages, scientific vocabulary and onomatopoeia. Native words are usually written using hiragana or a combination of hiragana and kanji.
Traditionally, hiragana has been considered feminine, and katakana masculine, but in modern Japanese they are both used in combination with kanji, while the Latin alphabet, known as romaji in Japanese, is also often seen nowadays.
Japanese Fonts
You can download free Japanese fonts from our fonts collection. If you want to use Japanese fonts online without downloading, you can use our text generator below.
The following tool will convert your text to images, and you can use different Japanese fonts, colors, text effects. You can then save the image or use the EMBED button to get image links. You may also want to use our image tools to modify the image.
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