A golang library to convert hiragana to romaji, katakana to romaji, romaji to hiragana and romaji to katakana.

Simply install with go get:

go get github.com/gojp/kana

To use kana, you'll have to import it:

import "github.com/hermanschaaf/kana"
...
k := kana.NewKana()

kana can do many things. It can convert hiragana or katakana to romaji:

s := kana.KanaToRomaji("バナナ") // -> banana
s = kana.KanaToRomaji("かんじ") // -> kanji

It can convert romaji to hiragana or katakana:

s := kana.RomajiToHiragana("kanji") // -> かんじ
s = kana.RomajiToKatakana("banana") // -> バナナ

It can tell you whether strings are written with kana, kanji or latin characters:

kana.IsLatin("banana") // -> true
kana.IsLatin("バナナ") // -> false

kana.IsKana("banana") // -> false
kana.IsKana("バナナ") // -> true

kana.IsKanji("banana") // -> false
kana.IsKanji("減少") // -> true

It can also normalize a given romaji string to a more standardized form (from the form given by Google Translate, for example):

kana.NormalizeRomaji("Myūjikku") // -> myu-jikku
kana.NormalizeRomaji("shitsuree") // -> shitsurei

Please feel free to use, contribute, and enjoy! You can also see this in action at nihongo.io.

• Herman Schaaf (author)
• Shawn Smith