is an

input method An input method (or input method editor, commonly abbreviated IME) is an operating system component or program that enables users to generate characters not natively available on their input devices by using sequences of characters (or mouse oper ...

published by

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for the entry of Japanese text on a computer. Since its dictionaries are generated automatically from the

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, it supports typing of

personal name A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek ''prósōpon'' – person, and ''onoma'' –name) is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together as a word-group, they all relate to that on ...

s, Internet slang, neologisms and related terms. Google Japanese Input can be used on Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS. Google also releases an

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version under the name mozc. It can be used on Linux, Microsoft Windows, Windows, macOS, Android (operating system), Android, and ChromeOS. It does not use Google's closed-source algorithms for generating dictionary data from online sources.

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* Google software, Japanese Input Input methods Japanese-language computing 2009 software {{Software-stub

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