Cyrillization of Japanese

Writing of Japanese Language in Cyrillic script

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Japanese writing
Components

Kanji

* Stroke order
* Radicals

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* Jōyō kanji
* list
* Kyōiku kanji
* Tōyō kanji

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* Jinmeiyō kanji
* Hyōgai kanji

Kana

* Hiragana
* Hentaigana
* Katakana

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* Man'yōgana
* Sōgana

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* Gojūon

Typographic symbols

* Japanese punctuation
* Iteration mark

Uses

Syllabograms

* Furigana
* Okurigana
* Braille

Transliteration

Rōmaji

* Hepburn

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* Kunrei-shiki / ISO 3602
* Nihon-shiki
* JSL

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* Wāpuro (keyboard input)

Cyrillization

* Polivanov system

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The cyrillization of Japanese is the process of transliterating or transcribing the Japanese language into Cyrillic script in order to represent Japanese proper names or terms in various languages that use Cyrillic, as an aid to Japanese language learning in those languages or as a potential replacement for the current Japanese writing system. This can be done in an ad hoc fashion (e.g. when "sushi" is transliterated as "суши" in Russian Cyrillic) or using one of a number of systems.

There are a number of cyrillization systems used by different Cyrillic alphabet-based languages, such as:

* The standard and most widely used system for cyrillization into Russian Cyrillic is known as the Polivanov system, named after the Russian and Soviet linguist Yevgeny Polivanov. One of the most arguable questions in this system is a representation of し, ち and じ into "си" (si), "ти" (ti) and "дзи" (dzi) respectively.
* The standard[citation needed] and most widely[citation needed] used (for example, in publications of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) system for cyrillization into Ukrainian Cyrillic is known as Kovalenko system, named after the Ukrainian linguist Oleksandr Kovalenko [uk].
* Other systems [uk] are also used to transcribe Japanese into Ukrainian.

## Sample texts

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### Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1

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Japanese text  | Hepburn | Polivanov | Romanization

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すべての人間は、生まれながらにして自由であり、かつ、尊厳と権利と について平等である。人間は、理性と良心とを授けられており、互いに同 胞の精神をもって行動しなければならない。 | Subete no ningen wa, umarenagara ni shite jiyū de ari, katsu, songen to kenri to ni tsuite byōdō de aru. Ningen wa, risei to ryōshin to o sazukerarete ori, tagai ni dōhō no seishin o motte kōdō shinakereba naranai.  | Субэтэ но нингэн ва, умарэнагара ни ситэ дзию: дэ ари, кацу, сонгэн то кэнри то ни цуитэ бё:до: дэ ару. Нингэн ва, рисэй то рё:син то о садзукэрарэтэ ори, тагаи ни до:хо: но сэйсин о моттэ ко:до: синакэрэба наранай.  | Subete no ningen va, umarenagara ni site dziyu: de ari, katsu, songen to kenri to ni tsuite byo:do: de aru. Ningen va, risey to ryo:sin to o sadzukerarete ori, tagai ni do:kho: no seysin o motte ko:do: sinakereba naranay.

## References

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## External links

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* Online Japanese→Polivanov transcription converter
* Proposal for a coordinated Japanese transcription system for several Slavic languages
* Automatic cyrillization of hiragana and katakana

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Transliteration and transcription into Cyrillic

Existing systems|

* Arabic
* Chinese
* French
* German
* Greek
* Japanese
* Korean
* Lithuanian
* Persian
* Polish

Standards|

* Alphabet comparison
* Cyrillic script
* International Phonetic Alphabet
* Scientific transliteration of Cyrillic

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Japanese language

Earlier forms|

* Old
* Early Middle
* Late Middle
* Early Modern

Dialects|

| Eastern|

* Hokkaidō
* Tōhoku
* Northern
* Nanbu
* Tsugaru
* Akita
* Matagi
* Southern
* Kesen
* Nairiku
* Kantō
* Western
* Gunma
* Kanagawa
* Tokyo
* Eastern
* Ibaraki
* Tochigi
* Northern Izu Islands
* Tōkai–Tōsan
* Nagano-Yamanashi-Shizuoka
* Shizuoka
* Narada
* Echigo
* Nagaoka
* Gifu-Aichi
* Nagoya
* Mikawa
* Mino
* Hida

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Western|

* Hokuriku
* Kaga
* Kanazawa
* Shiramine
* Kansai
* Awaji
* Banshū
* Kishū
* Okuyoshino
* Shikoku
* Iyo
* Tosa
* Sanuki
* Chūgoku
* San'yō
* Bingo
* East San'in
* Inshū
* Umpaku

Kyūshū|

* Hōnichi
* Ōita
* Hichiku
* Chikuzen
* Hakata
* Kumamoto
* Nagasaki
* Saga
* Tsushima
* Satsugū

Other|

* Amami Japanese
* Okinawan Japanese

Pidgins and creoles|

* Bamboo English
* Bonin English
* Hawaiian Creole
* Kyowa-go
* Pseudo-Chinese
* Yilan Creole Japanese
* Yokohama Pidgin Japanese

Japonic languages|

* Eastern Old Japanese
* Hachijō
* grammar

Ryukyuan|

* Northern
* Amami Ōshima
* Southern Amami Ōshima
* Kikai
* Kunigami
* Okinawan
* Okinoerabu
* Tokunoshima
* Yoron
* Southern
* Miyako
* Tarama
* Yaeyama
* Yonaguni

Writing system|

| Logograms|

* Script reform
* Kanbun
* Kanji
* by stroke count
* Kanji radicals
* by frequency
* by stroke count
* Kokuji
* Ryakuji
* Ateji

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Kana|

* Hiragana
* Katakana
* Furigana
* Okurigana
* Gojūon
* Man'yōgana
* Hentaigana
* Sōgana
* Kana ligature

Orthography|

* Braille
* Kanji
* Punctuation
* Kanazukai
* Historical kana
* Modern kana
* Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai
* Yotsugana
* Transcription into Japanese

Encoding|

* EUC
* EUC-JP
* ISO/IEC
* 2022
* JIS
* 0201
* 0208
* 0211
* 0212
* 0213
* Shift JIS
* Unicode
* Hiragana
* Kana Extended-A
* Kana Extended-B
* Kana Supplement
* Small Kana Extension
* Katakana
* Katakana Phonetic Extensions
* Other
* ARIB STD B24
* Enclosed
* EIS
* Extended shinjitai
* Half/full

Grammar and
vocabulary

* Japanese grammar
* Verb conjugations
* Godan and ichidan verbs
* Irregular verbs
* Pronouns
* Adjectives
* Possessives
* Particles
* Topic marker
* Counter words
* Numerals
* Native words (yamato kotoba)
* Sino-Japanese vocabulary
* Loan words (gairaigo)
* from Dutch
* from Portuguese
* Wasei-eigo
* Wasei-kango
* Engrish
* Honorific speech
* Honorifics
* Court lady language (nyōbō kotoba)
* Role language (yakuwarigo)
* Gender differences
* Dictionaries

Phonology|

* Pitch accent
* Rendaku
* Sound symbolism
* Kanji pronunciation sources
* on'yomi
* go-on
* kan-on
* tō-on
* kun'yomi

Transliteration|

* Romanization
* Hepburn
* Nihon-shiki
* Kunrei-shiki
* JSL
* Wāpuro rōmaji
* In Esperanto
* Cyrillization
* Polivanov system

Literature|

* Books
* Poetry
* Writers
* Speculative fiction writers
* Classical Japanese
* texts

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