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I've been tasked with implementing a rōmaji keyboard in a medical device. As I
understand the problem, the user is to be permitted to enter katakana,
hiragana, and/or kanji via the rōmaji keyboard. I have resources covering the
mapping of rōmaji to katakana/hiragana symbols; however, I'm having difficulty
locating resources to guide mapping of the resultant katakana to kanji
symbols. Can anyone recommend a resource that would assist in mapping the
katakana to kanji?
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kanji katakana hiragana
Kana to kanji mapping for a rōmaji keyboard
Mostly it's just obtaining a list of kana -> kanji conversions that will solve
your problem. You can find that in any freely-available dictionary database,
such as [EDICT](http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html). Creating your
own is going to be difficult on the same order of magnitude as writing a
dictionary.

However, what really determines the quality of an input method editor (IME)
for Japanese is how well-sorted the results are, e.g. when I type きょう, the
first result should be relevant to the other things I'm typing. There is,
unfortunately, not an easy solution to this problem, and mostly I imagine it
will require a lot of resources (time or effort) to reach a satisfying
solution.
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