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I am learning Japanese and I have found that after installing Japanese (Anthy) through the gnome-control-center that I have several input modes available to type with now under that, Hiragana, Katakana, Halfwidth Katakana, Latin, and Wide Latin. However, there is no Kanji. I could probably install it by installing the Chinese input source, but I may not be able to find the correct characters because of difference in meaning and pronunciation so it would be preferable if I could get the Japanese one (so that I can type watashi instead of I to get 私 - I would be for the Chinese one, and watashi for the Japanese one).

So how does one install Kanji? And can one use it as an input mode? I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.

Just to clarify: I want Kanji and not Kana (the name for individual Hiragana and Katakana characters) as I've already found that.

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The Anthy input method that you are using is able to input kanji.

After you type a word (or even a long phrase) in kana, just press the Space bar in order to bring up the kanji conversion.

Anthy will provide several options based on frequency of use in Japanese, words and phrases commonly used together, and on your local frequency of use.

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