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Every script has its own traps: vertical columns, right-to-left lines, words without spaces. Pick the language on the sign for tips that fit it; the translator itself reads all of them.

  • Japanesekanji, hiragana and katakana, often written vertically
  • ChineseSimplified characters in mainland China and Singapore, Traditional in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau
  • KoreanHangul, occasionally mixed with Chinese characters (hanja) and English
  • ArabicArabic script, written right to left, with numbers left to right
  • ThaiThai script, which has no spaces between words
  • RussianCyrillic, including handwritten cursive forms
  • GermanLatin alphabet with ä, ö, ü and ß, plus long compound nouns
  • FrenchLatin alphabet with accents (é, è, ç, à)
  • SpanishLatin alphabet with ñ and accents
  • HindiDevanagari, with a line along the top of each word

Language not listed? The main image translator detects the source language automatically.

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Translations are produced by AI and can be wrong. Not suitable for legal, medical or official use.