Letters within a Text

The Japanese language uses three different writing scripts.

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Entity["Language", "Japanese"]["WritingScripts"]

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These are the hiragana characters.

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hiraganaCharacters = Alphabet[Entity["WritingScript", "Hiragana::jx343"]]

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Highlight hiragana characters in the following Japanese text.

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text = "汚れつちまつた悲しみに 今日も小雪の降りかかる 汚れつちまつた悲しみに 今日も風さへ吹きすぎる 汚れつちまつた悲しみは たとへば狐の革裘 汚れつちまつた悲しみは 小雪のかかつてちぢこまる 汚れつちまつた悲しみは なにのぞむなくねがふなく 汚れつちまつた悲しみは 倦怠のうちに死を夢む 汚れつちまつた悲しみに いたいたしくも怖気づき 汚れつちまつた悲しみに なすところもなく日は暮れ\[Ellipsis]\[Ellipsis]";

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StringReplace[text, x_ /; MatchQ[RemoveDiacritics[x], Alternatives @@ hiraganaCharacters] :> ToString[Style[x, FontColor -> Red], StandardForm]]

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Use WordCloud to show the relative frequency of hiragana characters in the text.

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WordCloud[ StringCases[text, x_ /; MatchQ[RemoveDiacritics[x], Alternatives @@ hiraganaCharacters]]]

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