pykakasi is a Python Natural Language Processing (NLP) library to transliterate hiragana, katakana and kanji (Japanese text) into rōmaji (Latin/Roman alphabet). It can handle characters in NFC form.

Its algorithms are based on the kakasi library, which is written in C.

• Install (from PyPI): pip install pykakasi
• Install (from conda-forge): conda install -c conda-forge pykakasi
• Documentation available on readthedocs

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