literal-kanji

literal-kanji

A small NodeJS module to convert Japanese kanji to their literal meaning:

// Tokyo
literalKanji = require('literal-kanji');
literalKanji('東京');
> 'east capital'

Use case

I translated this SVG Tokyo subway map:

Modules used

• jisho by Siegfried Ehret, using kanjium dataset
• mocha for testing

License

Open source under MIT license