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Type kanji, hiragana, katakana, romaji, or English. eevy reads the script you typed and ranks the closest matches first, so every form below lands on the same entry.
| 日本語 | kanji |
| にほんご | hiragana |
| nihongo | romaji |
| Japanese language | English |
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