pykakasi is a Python Natural Language Processing (NLP) library to transliterate hiragana, katakana and kanji (Japanese text) into rōmaji (Latin/Roman alphabet). It can handle characters in NFC form.
Its algorithms are based on the kakasi library, which is written in C.
- Install (from PyPI):
pip install pykakasi - Install (from conda-forge):
conda install -c conda-forge pykakasi - Documentation available on readthedocs
- pykakasi supports python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, and pypy3
Transliterate Japanese text to kana, hiragana and romaji:
import pykakasi
kks = pykakasi.kakasi()
text = "かな漢字"
result = kks.convert(text)
for item in result:
print("{}: kana '{}', hiragana '{}', romaji: '{}'".format(item['orig'], item['kana'], item['hira'], item['hepburn']))
かな: kana 'カナ', hiragana: 'かな', romaji: 'kana'
漢字: kana 'カンジ', hiragana: 'かんじ', romaji: 'kanji'Here is an example that output as similar with furigana mode.
import pykakasi
kks = pykakasi.kakasi()
text = "かな漢字交じり文"
result = kks.convert(text)
for item in result:
print("{}[{}] ".format(item['orig'], item['hepburn'].capitalize()), end='')
print()
かな[Kana] 漢字[Kanji] 交じり[Majiri] 文[Bun]You can see benchmark result on various versions and platforms at miurahr#123
- PyKakasi::
- Copyright (C) 2010-2021 Hiroshi Miura and contributors(see AUTHORS)
- KAKASI Dictionary::
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