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I am learning Japanese, but I haven't really learnt much Kanji yet, though I know a lot of the spoken stuff and can read Hiragana and Katakana. So I was wondering if there is some tool that can be given Kanji and will convert it back to Hiragana (like Anthy converts from Hiragana to Kanji)?

I am running Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.20.

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Kakasi is the one for Linux.

Kakashi http://kakasi.namazu.org/index.html.en (In English)

First download the source file http://kakasi.namazu.org/stable/kakasi-2.3.6.tar.gz

% gzip -dc kakasi-2.3.5.tar.gz | tar xvf -
% cd kakasi-2.3.5
% ./configure
% make
% su
# make install

I see them often online web API. For example, Kanji to hiragana web page http://tool.stabucky.com/convert/kanji2kana.php

These applications do the other way of Japanese input method does. Application builders export the dictionary somehow and build a database from them, in my opinion.

Sadaharu Wakisaka
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