lower to ひらがな, CAPITAL to カタカナ,

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The following page provides a graphic interface for exploring the International Phonetic Alphabet. To use the resource simply click on any link to hear an illustrative example. For example, most rows in the Pulmonic chart (Manner of Articulation) have descriptive audio that explains each row completely. Other charts (Non-Pulmonic, Vowels etc.) have detailed audio descriptions available by clicking on the chart title. Within each chart, clicking on any IPA character will play an example of that sound. With consonants, you will hear the sound in exclusion followed by an intervocalic example. You will need a recent browser and QuickTime installed on your computer in order to use the page to the fullest. You will also need a UVic NetLinkID to access these copyrighted materials.

This page allows you to easily type special symbols, such as the copyright symbol, degree symbol, trademark symbol, heart symbol, etc. You can edit your text in the box and then copy it to your document, e-mail message, etc. * Currencies NEW * Czech * Danish * Dutch * Finnish * French * German * Hungarian * IPA (English) * Italian * Polish * Portuguese * Romanian * Russian * Spanish * Swedish * Symbols NEW * Turkish

Currently, Arabic العربية, Armenian Հայկական, Bengali, Cyrillic Кириллица, Devanagari देवनागरी, Ge'ez / Ethiopic ግዕዝ, Georgian / Mkhedruli ქართული, Greek Ελληνικά, Gujarati ગુજરાતી, Gurmukhi / Punjabi ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ, Hebrew עִבְרִית, Kannada, Korean 한국어, Latin, Malayalam , Tamil தமிழ், Telugu, Thaana ތާނަ‎ and Thai อักษรไทย are supported.

Web-based Chinese Input Service (WebIME) is a webpage that enables users to input Chinese characters on Internet anytime, anywhere. It provides five conventional Chinese input methods (Cangjie (倉頡), simplified Cangjie(簡易), Hanyu pinyin(漢語拼音), Cantonese Pronunciation(粵語拼音)[#1] and Chinese dictionary-like method (Radical/Number of Strokes(部首/筆劃))) augmented with two special features, homophone and candidate characters filtering. WebIME aims to bring more ease and convenience for users to input Chinese characters when surfing the Internet.

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