Search Japanese text

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You can search Japanese text without distinguishing between hiragana and katakana, or old and new kana, or related sounds.

Important: To complete these procedures, you must first turn on Japanese language features. For more information, see Turn on Japanese language features (U.S. version only).

Search Japanese text without distinguishing between hiragana and katakana

1. On the Edit menu, point to Find, and then click Advanced Find and Replace.

2. In the Find what box, type the text that you want to find.

3. Click , select the Sounds Like (Japanese) check box, and then click Options.

4. Under Treat as equal, select the Match hiragana/katakana check box, and then click OK.

5. Click Find Next.

Search Japanese text without distinguishing between full-width and half-width characters

1. On the Edit menu, point to Find, and then click Advanced Find and Replace.

2. In the Find what box, type the text that you want to find.

3. Click , select the Sounds Like (Japanese) check box, and then click Options.

4. Under Treat as equal, select the Match full/half width form check box, and then click OK.

5. Click Find Next.

Search Japanese text without distinguishing between uppercase and lowercase letters

1. On the Edit menu, point to Find, and then click Advanced Find and Replace.

2. In the Find what box, type the text that you want to find.

3. Click , select the Sounds Like (Japanese) check box, and then click Options.

4. Under Treat as equal, select the Match Case check box, and then click OK.

5. Click Find Next.

Search options you can use

To designate which kind of text or ideographic differences to ignore during a search, on the Word menu, click Preferences, then click Japanese Find, and then select the appropriate check boxes. The functions of these check boxes are listed below.

To search	Select
Without distinguishing between uppercase and lowercase letters	Match case
Without distinguishing between full-width and half-width characters	Match full/half-width form
Without distinguishing between hiragana and katakana characters	Match hiragana/katakana
Without distinguishing between characters with diphthongs and double consonants and plain characters	Match contractions (yo-on, sokuon)
Without distinguishing between minus signs (–), dashes ( ), and long vowel sounds ( )	Match minus/dash/cho-on
Without distinguishing between repeat character marks (         )	Match "repeat character" marks
Without distinguishing between standard and nonstandard ideography	Match variant-form kanji (itaiji)
Without distinguishing between new and old kana	Match old kana forms
Without distinguishing between long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds	Match cho-on used for vowels
Without distinguishing between " " and " ", " " and " "	Match di/zi, du/zu ( / , / )
Without distinguishing between " " and " ", or " " and " "	Match ba/va, ha/fa ( / , /   )
Without distinguishing between " ", " ", and " ", or " " and " "	Match tsi/thi/chi, dhi/zi ( / / , / )
Without distinguishing between " " and " ", or " " and " "	Match hyu/iyu, byu/vyu ( / , / )
Without distinguishing between " " and " ", or " " and " "	Match se/she, ze/je ( / , / )
Without distinguishing between " " and " " following -row and -row characters	Match ia/iya (piano/piyano) ( and )
Without distinguishing between " " and " " before -row characters	Match ki/ku (tekisuto/tekusuto) ( / )
And ignore punctuation characters	Punctuation characters
Without distinguishing between characters that are used as blank spaces, such as full-width spaces, half-width spaces, and tabs	White-space characters

See also

Find and replace text or formatting

Use wildcard characters to find or replace text