Japanese language guide and translation tips

Practical guides for translating files, emails and reviewing results

Language overview

Japanese is listed in the translation catalog under the language identifier ja. Selecting this entry sets the source or target language; it does not specify every regional variety or specialist vocabulary.

Writing system

The default writing system associated with this catalog entry is Japanese (kanji and kana). Preserve accents, punctuation and personal names. This default script information is derived from Unicode locale data and is not an exhaustive list of scripts used by speakers.

Common usage

Use the Japanese translator to understand correspondence, study material, travel information and short workplace drafts. For a specialist text, supply a complete sentence rather than an isolated term, and retain any context that identifies the subject.

Translation tips

Review politeness, subject omissions, and the reading of names.

Check negation and the subject of each sentence. Compare quantities, currencies and dates with the original. A fluent reader should review important text for meaning and tone before it is published.

Translate Japanese

Japanese → Afrikaans Japanese → Albanian Japanese → Amharic Japanese → Arabic Japanese → Armenian Japanese → Assamese Japanese → Azerbaijani Japanese → Bangla Japanese → Bashkir Japanese → Basque Japanese → Belarusian Japanese → Bhojpuri Japanese → Bodo Japanese → Bosnian Japanese → Bulgarian Japanese → Cantonese (Traditional)Japanese → Catalan Japanese → Chhattisgarhi Japanese → Chinese Japanese → Chinese (Literary)Japanese → Chinese Traditional Japanese → Croatian Japanese → Czech Japanese → Danish Japanese → Dari Japanese → Divehi Japanese → Dogri Japanese → Dutch Japanese → English Japanese → Estonian Japanese → Faroese Japanese → Fijian Japanese → Filipino Japanese → Finnish Japanese → French Japanese → French (Canada)Japanese → Galician Japanese → Ganda Japanese → Georgian Japanese → German Japanese → Greek Japanese → Gujarati Japanese → Haitian Creole Japanese → Hausa Japanese → Hebrew Japanese → Hindi Japanese → Hmong Daw Japanese → Hungarian Japanese → Icelandic Japanese → Igbo Japanese → Indonesian Japanese → Inuinnaqtun Japanese → Inuktitut Japanese → Inuktitut (Latin)Japanese → Irish Japanese → Italian Japanese → Kannada Japanese → Kashmiri Japanese → Kazakh Japanese → Khmer Japanese → Kinyarwanda Japanese → Klingon (Latin)Japanese → Klingon (pIqaD)Japanese → Konkani Japanese → Korean Japanese → Kurdish (Central)Japanese → Kurdish (Northern)Japanese → Kyrgyz Japanese → Lao Japanese → Latvian Japanese → Lingala Japanese → Lithuanian Japanese → Lower Sorbian Japanese → Luxembourgish Japanese → Macedonian Japanese → Maithili Japanese → Malagasy Japanese → Malay Japanese → Malayalam Japanese → Maltese Japanese → Manipuri Japanese → Māori Japanese → Marathi Japanese → Mongolian (Cyrillic)Japanese → Mongolian (Traditional)Japanese → Myanmar (Burmese)Japanese → Nepali Japanese → Norwegian Japanese → Nyanja Japanese → Odia Japanese → Pashto Japanese → Persian Japanese → Polish Japanese → Portuguese Japanese → Portuguese (Portugal)Japanese → Punjabi Japanese → Querétaro Otomi Japanese → Romanian Japanese → Rundi Japanese → Russian Japanese → Samoan Japanese → Serbian (Cyrillic)Japanese → Serbian (Latin)Japanese → Sesotho Japanese → Sesotho sa Leboa Japanese → Setswana Japanese → Shona Japanese → Sindhi Japanese → Sinhala Japanese → Slovak Japanese → Slovenian Japanese → Somali Japanese → Spanish Japanese → Spanish (Mexico)Japanese → Swahili Japanese → Swedish Japanese → Tahitian Japanese → Tamil Japanese → Tatar Japanese → Telugu Japanese → Thai Japanese → Tibetan Japanese → Tigrinya Japanese → Tongan Japanese → Turkish Japanese → Turkmen Japanese → Ukrainian Japanese → Upper Sorbian Japanese → Urdu Japanese → Uyghur Japanese → Uzbek (Latin)Japanese → Vietnamese Japanese → Welsh Japanese → Xhosa Japanese → Yoruba Japanese → Yucatec Maya Japanese → Zulu

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