PHONETIC function

This article describes the formula syntax and usage of the PHONETIC  function in Microsoft Excel.

Description

Extracts the phonetic (furigana) characters from a text string.

Syntax

PHONETIC(reference)

The PHONETIC function syntax has the following arguments:

• Reference    Required. Text string or a reference to a single cell or a range of cells that contain a furigana text string.

Remarks

• If reference is a range of cells, the furigana text string in the upper-left corner cell of the range is returned.

• If the reference is a range of nonadjacent cells, the #N/A error value is returned.

Example

If cells C4 contains " " and cell B7 contains " ", the following are true:

=PHONETIC(C4) equals " "

=PHONETIC(B7) equals " "