# Basic question regarding Japanese keyboard and typing romaji double N's **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Created:** [July 4, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/basic-question-regarding-japanese-keyboard-and-typing-romaji-double-ns/18759 "2017-07-04T21:03:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jeffthestrider](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jeffthestrider/32/53868_2.png) [@Jeffthestrider](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Jeffthestrider)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/basic-question-regarding-japanese-keyboard-and-typing-romaji-double-ns/18759/1 "2017-07-04T21:03:23Z")
This is a basic question, but when I type ん on the keyboard, it obviously won’t auto-complete the character. However, if I type “nn”, it should at least turn into "んn”. I find myself missing words because I type the characters but don’t realize the editor dropped one of the n’s. おんな turns to おんあ, etc. Is there a better way to type those out or do people just deal with that? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Kumirei](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/kumirei/32/480522_2.png) [@Kumirei](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Kumirei)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/basic-question-regarding-japanese-keyboard-and-typing-romaji-double-ns/18759/2 "2017-07-04T21:07:45Z")
Just learn to type ん as “nn”. Practically all IMEs do it that way. おんな just becomes onnna, only one keystroke more. ---
**Author:** ![Borx](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/borx/32/299469_2.png) [@Borx](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Borx)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/basic-question-regarding-japanese-keyboard-and-typing-romaji-double-ns/18759/3 "2017-07-04T21:20:17Z")
This. I do this automatically to the point I sometimes misspell english words because of it. ---
**Author:** ![Jeffthestrider](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jeffthestrider/32/53868_2.png) [@Jeffthestrider](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Jeffthestrider)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/basic-question-regarding-japanese-keyboard-and-typing-romaji-double-ns/18759/4 "2017-07-04T21:21:40Z")
Alright, thanks. I didn’t know if that was something I was missing. ---
**Author:** ![Leebo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/leebo/32/439476_2.png) [@Leebo](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Leebo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/basic-question-regarding-japanese-keyboard-and-typing-romaji-double-ns/18759/5 "2017-07-04T21:23:23Z")
This is standard. Because if it didn’t do this, you couldn’t type words like 任意 (にんい) You’d get にに ---
**Author:** ![jasonlint](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/jasonlint/32/35893_2.png) [@jasonlint](https://community.wanikani.com/u/jasonlint)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/basic-question-regarding-japanese-keyboard-and-typing-romaji-double-ns/18759/6 "2017-07-04T21:24:50Z")
I pushed 今夜 back to Apprentice many times because of that… ---
**Author:** ![alexbeldan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/alexbeldan/32/63446_2.png) [@alexbeldan](https://community.wanikani.com/u/alexbeldan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/basic-question-regarding-japanese-keyboard-and-typing-romaji-double-ns/18759/7 "2017-07-04T22:54:44Z")
> [@Borx](#): > > This. I do this automatically to the poinnt I sometimes misspell ennglish words because of it. FTFY ---
**Author:** ![Gaidheal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/user_avatar/community.wanikani.com/gaidheal/32/4164_2.png) [@Gaidheal](https://community.wanikani.com/u/Gaidheal)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/basic-question-regarding-japanese-keyboard-and-typing-romaji-double-ns/18759/8 "2017-07-04T23:11:07Z")
Also, just a point, but this topic has come up many times before. I commented on the same thing literally years ago. Always best to search for stuff like this first. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/wanikanicommunity/original/4X/6/2/a/62a8b0f4c59ff2c5b6651ffcf43531480b3e5297.png) [@system](https://community.wanikani.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.wanikani.com/t/basic-question-regarding-japanese-keyboard-and-typing-romaji-double-ns/18759/9 "2018-07-04T23:14:57Z")
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