Overview
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
Supported python versions
pykakasi supports python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and pypy3
Usage
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]Copyright and License
- PyKakasi::
Copyright (C) 2010-2024 Hiroshi Miura and contributors(see AUTHORS)
- KAKASI Dictionary::
Copyright (C) 2010-2021 Hiroshi Miura and contributors(see AUTHORS)
Copyright (C) 1992 1993 1994 Hironobu Takahashi, Masahiko Sato, Yukiyoshi Kameyama, Miki Inooka, Akihiko Sasaki, Dai Ando, Junichi Okukawa, Katsushi Sato and Nobuhiro Yamagishi
- UniDic::
Copyright (c) 2011-2021, The UniDic Consortium
All rights reserved.
Unidic is released under any of the GPL2, the LGPL2.1, or the 3-clause BSD License. (See src/data/unidic/BSD.txt) PyKakasi relicenses a part of the unidic with GPL3+.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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