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=== Usage ===
This template is basically the same as [[wikipedia:Template:Nihongo]], except that it reverses the order of the English and [[wikipedia:Rōmaji|Rōmaji]] items' diplay, and relies on a little bit of manual formating for italics and quotation marks; its handling of [[wikipedia:Kanji|Kanji]] (and/or [[wikipedia:Kana|Kana]]) is the same as that of [[wikipedia:Template:Nihongo]].

This template is useful when one is addressing a Japanese term directly instead of providing a Japanese translation for an English one, i.e. <nowiki>'</nowiki>''Japanese term in Rōmaji'' (Kanji version, "English translation")', instead of <nowiki>'</nowiki>English term (Kanji version, ''Japanese translation in Rōmaji'')'.



; Syntax

{| class="wikitable"
|'''Code''' ||<code><nowiki>{{Nihongo|"English"|Kanji|Rōmaji|extra|extra2}}</nowiki></code>
|-
|'''Gives'''|| {{Nihongo|"English"|Kanji|Rōmaji|extra|extra2}}
|}

This template marks the <code>Kanji</code> segment as being in Japanese Kanji, which helps web browsers display it correctly. It also applies the <code>t_nihongo_kanji</code> CSS style class to it.

Parameters 1, 2 and 3 are required, but the first may be blank (e.g. if the Kanji/Kana and Rōmaji are known but the English is not, use <code><nowiki>{{Nihongo||Kanji|Rōmaji}}</nowiki></code>. Using the template without the Rōmaji and Kanji version is essentially pointless, and will result in a useless or worse-than-useless display. Parameters 4 and 5 can also be directly invoked with <code>extra=</code> and <code>extra2=</code>. Parameter extra2 is useful only in ";" definitions (<code>extra2</code>'s content will be displayed without bold, whereas text following the template will get the bold); see below for a concrete example.

'''Please note''':
*The English parameter (the first one) does ''not'' automatically put quotation marks around its content. This may or may not be desired, depending upon the context and content (and as in example below, something else may be done, such as prefacing the English translation with something.
*The Rōmaji parameter (the third one) does ''not'' automatically put its content into italics, which in most cases ''other than proper names'' should be done (manually).
*The order of parameters is fixed, and is intentionally the same as that of [[wikipedia:Template:Nihongo]] (despite it being not very intuitive for this template) to make most conversions between the two display formats a simple matter of a one-character change to the template name and some manual quotation mark and italics formatting (or removal thereof if converting from {{tl|Nihongo}} to [[wikipedia:Template:Nihongo]]).

See examples below for usage hints.

=== Examples ===

{| class="wikitable"
|'''Code''' ||<code><nowiki>{{Nihongo|Western: '''Motojiro Kajii'''|梶井基次郎|'''Kajii Motojirō'''|1901–1932}}</nowiki></code>
|-
|'''Gives'''|| {{Nihongo|Western: '''Motojiro Kajii'''|梶井基次郎|'''Kajii Motojirō'''|1901–1932}}
|}

With <code>extra2</code>:

{| class="wikitable"
|'''Code''' ||
<code><nowiki>; {{Nihongo|"priest of nothingness"|虚無僧|komusō|extra2=[religion]}}</nowiki></code><br />
<code><nowiki>: Mendicant priest of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism.</nowiki></code>
|-
|'''Gives'''||
; {{Nihongo|"priest of nothingness"|虚無僧|komusō|extra2=[religion]}}
: Mendicant priest of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism.
|}

The <code>extra2</code> parameter can be used for links, reference footnote citations, etc.

Without <code>extra2</code> (and probably '''not''' the desired effect):

{| class="wikitable"
|'''Code''' ||
<code><nowiki>; {{Nihongo|"priest of nothingness"|虚無僧|komusō}} [religion]</nowiki></code><br />
<code><nowiki>: Mendicant priest of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism.</nowiki></code>
|-
|'''Gives'''||
; {{Nihongo|"priest of nothingness"|虚無僧|komusō}} [religion]
: Mendicant priest of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism.
|}

Example of usage when it is not clear from the context that Japanese is the language in question:

{| class="wikitable"
|'''Code''' ||
<code><nowiki>{{Nihongo|Japanese for "four balls"|四つ球|'''yotsudama'''}}</nowiki></code>
|-
|'''Gives'''||
{{Nihongo|Japanese for "four balls"|四つ球|'''yotsudama'''}}
|}

Do not use <code><nowiki>Japanese: "English version"</nowiki></code> for a case like this, as this colon formatting is used by Wikipedia language templates to indicate that the material that ''follows'' the colon is in the language mentioned before the colon, and this different use of this formatting will confuse readers. Use "for" or some other clear wording instead. Also, do not use <code><nowiki>{{Lang-ja|"English version"}}</nowiki></code> (which renders as {{Lang-ja|"English version"}}); this even more explicitly signals that the material following the language name is in that language, and the text will appear (as it does in that example) in a different font.

=== User style ===
[[Help:User style|User style]] can be set by adding code similar to

: <nowiki>*[lang=ja] { color: green; font-family: Arial; }</nowiki>

or

: <nowiki>.t_nihongo_kanji { color: green; font-family: Arial; }</nowiki>
to [[Special:Mypage/common.css|common.css]].

=== See also ===
* the original template at [[wikipedia:Template:Nihongo]]

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