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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.

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  • Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. Mar 5, 2017 at 17:31
  • I am sorry honestly I don't know what is preferable answer at the moment, I'll learn from other answers. Mar 5, 2017 at 22:32
  • Thanks for updating your answer with some specific details. Mar 5, 2017 at 23:18

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