Template:ja-spellings/documentation

Template for listing the spellings of a Japanese word, using Module:ja-spellings to do its job.

A Japanese word always has a kana spelling and usually has one or more kanji spellings. For each word, one spelling is chosen by the editors as the main entry on Wiktionary to hold all information of the word. is used on the main entry to list and link to the other spellings, and is used on the pages of the other spellings to link to the main entry.

If there are multiple etymologies (homographs), the template should be placed immediately below the  header of the word it describes. Otherwise, it should be placed immediately below the  header, or the whole   section in the case of kanji entries, above any other header (including  )

Parameters

 * (1st .. nth parameters)
 * and modern kanji (or kanji-kana mixed) spellings
 * h, h2, …
 * notes (or note)
 * Notes on the spellings.
 * Notes on the spellings.

Rōmaji is not in the scope of this template because it is POS-specific.

Note: There is currently no consensus on how to present kyūjitai, or even which shinjitai standard to follow (e.g. vs ).

(Just list the spellings likely to be encountered in modern texts. Special spellings such as and historically attested ones such as, , , , , , , , , , and  are best handled by some other mechanisms.)

Technical details

 * The pagename parameter can be used for testing.
 * The template checks the pages the key spellings (modern kana and kanji) link to to see if they link back with or.