User talk:Subarashii

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! --50 Xylophone Players talk 19:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Format for Japanese entries

That's the standard welcome message, now for what I mainly came here for. Please use the following templates for Japanese entries:

• {{ja-noun}} for nouns.
• {{ja-adj|decl=}} for adjectives, the "decl" parameter is for declension (i or na, e.g 易しい(yasashii),　大きな(ōkina).
• {{ja-verb|kk|type=}} for verbs. kk (kanji and kana) is any entry whose title consists of kanji followed by kana. Use "h" in its place for hiragana, "k" for (a) kanji character(s) on its/their own, "r" for romaji and "ka" for katakana.
• {{ja-pos|}} for any other part of speech, e.g. {{ja-pos|k|adnominal}}, {{ja-pos|k|adverb}}. See Category:Japanese adnominals for a bit of info on what an adnominal is.

Please also make sure every template is like: this {{ja-noun|k|hira=|rom=}} needless to say do not use the hira parameter in a hiragana entry or the rom parameter in a romaji entry}} The main reason I am saying this is that due to categorisation issues witin the wiki software that you just have to worked around if a kanji or romaji entry is made and categorised without a hiragana parameter (just for this example let's say that the category in question is Category:Japanese Nouns) then it is not sorted correctly; 人魚 would be sorted under "*" instead of　に and ningyo would be under "n" instead of に. Sorry if this got too long and I hope you will continue to contribute Japanese entries since as far as I know there is not a very large amount of Japanese-speaking/understanding people on Wiktionary. If you want more information about creating Japanese entries have a look at WT:AJA.--50 Xylophone Players talk 19:45, 27 October 2008 (UTC)