Furigana Converter - Japanese Kana Annotation
A free online tool for adding hiragana (ruby) to Japanese kanji. Automatically convert and display furigana for any Japanese text.
Hiragana
Hiragana is one of the phonetic scripts representing the sounds of Japanese. It is mainly used for native Japanese words, okurigana (inflectional endings for kanji), particles, and auxiliary verbs. It is characterized by its rounded shapes.
Katakana
Katakana is also one of the phonetic scripts representing the sounds of Japanese. It is mainly used for words from foreign languages (loanwords), onomatopoeia, mimetics, or to emphasize certain words. It is characterized by its linear and angular shapes.
Kanji (かんじ)
Kanji are characters that primarily represent meaning. Many were transmitted from China and are an essential element of Japanese writing. A single kanji can also have multiple readings.
Furigana (振り仮名)
Furigana are kana characters attached to other characters, such as kanji, to indicate their reading.
Furigana Display on Webpages
On web pages, you can display furigana above characters by using the HTML <ruby> tag. Example: 漢字