Help:Installing Japanese character sets

This is practically the same help page found at wikipedia with some important differences! This help page will help you install Japanese character sets so that your computer will display them properly on the Internet in your web browser as all modern operating systems and web browsers support Japanese fonts. Throughout the wiki, are used in many different articles. Many computers with English or other Western operating systems do not show them by default, but most require a minimal amount of work to install or activate the capability.

Note

If you came here by clicking the ^? near some Japanese characters (either Kanji or Kana), here is an explanation of how the Japanese is formatted with the English and . When Japanese is included in an article on, it is almost always placed within a template which helps to standardize the appearance of the Japanese characters, as well as the translation and Romanization of those characters. If you look at the code of the page (by clicking on the Edit tab at the top of the page or on the Edit link for that particular section), you will see something like what appears on the Code line in the following table:

Code	{{Nihongo|English|Kanji|Rōmaji|extra|extra2|furigana}}
Gives	English (Kanji【furigana】, Rōmaji, extra) extra2

This template marks the Kanji segment as being in Japanese Kanji, which helps web browsers and other user agents to display it correctly. The template uses the following parameters

• English. Optional. The word as translated into English. Note that this will sometimes be the actual Japanese word due to it being adopted into English.
• Kanji/Kana. Required. The word in Japanese kanji and/or kana, the logographic writing system.
• Romaji. Optional. The word in Japanese Romaji, the Romanized syllabic writing system used for foreign words. Also known as a "transliteration".
• extra. Optional. Can also be expressed as a named parameter, extra=
• extra2. Optional. Can also be expressed as a named parameter, extra2=. It is only useful in ";" definitions (extra2 will be displayed without bold, whereas text following the template will get the bold).
• furigana. Optional. Puts the furigana within 【】. Can also be expressed as a named parameter, furigana=

Examples

Regular use:

Code	{{Nihongo|English|英語|eigo}}
Gives	English (英語, eigo)

Without English:

Code	{{Nihongo||英語|eigo}}
Gives	eigo (英語)

With extra:

Code	; {{Nihongo||亢|su|extra="あみ"}} : a constellation.
Gives	su (亢, "あみ") a constellation.

With extra2:

Code	; {{Nihongo||虚無僧|komusō|extra2="Priest of nothingness"}} : Mendicant priest of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism.
Gives	komusō (虚無僧) "Priest of nothingness" Mendicant priest of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism.

Without extra2:

Code	; {{Nihongo||虚無僧|komusō}} "Priest of nothingness" : Mendicant priest of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism.
Gives	komusō (虚無僧) "Priest of nothingness" Mendicant priest of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism.

With furigana:

Code	; {{Nihongo||亢|su|furigana=あみ}}
Gives	su (亢【あみ】)

If you have questions regarding Japanese characters or the use of this template, please post on the talk page or in the forum section.