ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html lang="ja-JP"> <!-- Romaji to Kanji convertor. Takes English input of Japanese words and returns Japanese characters Copyright (C) 2006 Matthew Middleman Kanji Data comes from KANJIDIC, http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Last Updated: 14AUG2004 Copyright (C) 2004,James William Breen. --> <head> <title>Kanji Wheel</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="keywords" content="Kanji Wheel, Matthew Middleman, Middleman, Japan, Japanese, Japanese language, Romaji, Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, conversion, writing, í0ü0Þ0W[, "oW[, s^îN T, GrîN T, Romaji to Kanji, English-Japanese"> </head> <body bgcolor="#AAFFFF" text="#000000" > <table id="mainTable" width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tr valign=top > <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" > <h1>Kanji Wheel</h1> <h2>Romaji (í0ü0Þ0W[) to Kanji ("oW[)</h2> <ul> <li>It takes about 1 minute to load this page for the first time. <li>For fasting loading, select the '<b>Fast Loading</b>' checkbox once the page has loaded. <li>When asked for permission to save, please <b>Allow</b>. This will use less than 2Mb of space. <li>If you need more help, please look at this <a href="Help.htm" target="_BLANK">Help Page</a>. </ul> <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="800" height="420" id="kanji_wheel_v0.9" align="middle"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="movie" value="kanji_wheel_v0.9.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="kanji_wheel_v0.9.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="800" height="420" name="kanji_wheel_v0.9" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /> </object> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <hr> The aims of this tool are to: <OL> <li><b>be available online without the need to download any additional software; it should work on standard browsers.</b> <br>The software used, Flash, is apparently available on 90% of systems. A small download is required for those other 10%. <li><b>be lightweight, in that it does need a long time to download and so runs smoothly and fast.</b> <br>The first time loading requires about 1 minute on a fast Internet connection. If the 'fast loading' box is selected, the loading is very fast. <li><b>be able to type using standard Romaji input to derive the correct Hiragana / Katakana output.</b> <br>Lower case romaji results in Hiragana. Upper case produces Katakana. <li><b>be able to type using standard Romaji and select the desired Kanji from a list of possible matches.</b> <br>As Romaji is entered, all matching Kanji is displayed in the wheel, which can be cycled <li><b>be able to see the English definition of Kanji, to make it easier to differentiate between similar looking Kanji.</b> <br>The definition of the currently selected Kanji is shown. Hovering over a kanji also shows its meaning. <li><b>be able to easily copy any desired Japanese characters into a writing area, making it possible to write sentences in Japanese.</b> <br>Hitting the 'Enter' button will copy the kanji in the middle of the wheel to the Japanese area, as will clicking any kanji in the wheel. <li><b>be able to perform the operations of a simple text editor on the Japanese written. For example, copy and clear.</b> <br>The area can be cleared. All the text can be copied. </OL> <hr> <font> Data comes from KANJIDIC Last Updated: 14AUG2004 Copyright (C) 2004 <a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/">James William Breen</a>. <br>See the <a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/kanjidic_doc.html">kanjidic_doc.html</a> file for full details. <br>Enquiries: jwb@csse.monash.edu.au <br> Matthew Middleman. Copyright &#169; 2006. <br> </font> <hr> <p> </p> <!-- Start of StatCounter Code --> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=1574827; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_partition=14; var sc_security="f8ea3b7d"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c15.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=1574827&java=0&security=f8ea3b7d&invisible=1" alt="free web hit counter" border="0"></a> </noscript> <!-- End of StatCounter Code --> </body> </html>