Used to detect Japanese character types (i.e., hiragana, katakana, kanji, full/half-width etc.). There are two groups of detection methods: methods that check the entire string, and methods that ...

Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for certain meaning.

{"family": "Katakana", "symbols": [{"display": "\u30a2", "translations": ["a"]}, {"display": "\u30a4", "translations": ["i"]}, {"display": "\u30a6", "translations ...