Japanese Input Method User Guide

• Welcome
• Use a Japanese input source
  • Set up the input source
  • Switch the input source
  • Edit and use your user dictionaries
  • Enter characters
    • Enter Japanese text
    • Enter characters using the Kana Table
    • Enter full-width or half-width numbers
    • Enter symbols
    • Change characters you entered
    • Use the Candidate window
    • Enter words that aren’t in the Candidate window
    • Type roman strings using hiragana or katakana
    • Roman characters and corresponding kana
  • Convert characters
    • Improve conversion accuracy
    • Convert hiragana numbers into other notations
    • Convert text using a punctuation mark
    • Insert and convert characters between characters
    • Reverse a conversion
    • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Change Japanese preferences
  • Troubleshooting
    • If entering characters is slow or unresponsive
    • If rectangles or wrong characters are displayed
    • If characters are repeatedly displayed
    • If you can’t enter certain characters
• Use the Ainu input source
  • Set up and switch to the Ainu input source
  • Look up roman/kana character correlation
• Choose a sort order for lists in Japanese
• Copyright