As part of my project Self Hosted Zapier Alternative; I am having to deal with doing regex searches against the three Japanese written forms, Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana.
Fortunately this is a common problem. So I have found some references for this. Also one of my favourite tools for developing regex expressions, Regex101, also offers support in this area.
I found this useful Github Gist.
note:
You should also check the gist directly as there are some follow up comments and
additions. See here
Using Regex101 I was able to come up with the following expression.
r"
^「(?P<busname>[一-龯]\d{1,2})\s
(?P<destination>[一-龯]+)行き・
(?P<boardedat>[一-龯]+)」
"
This will successfully match a string such as:「渋11 渋谷駅行き・駒沢大学駅前」でタッチしました。
Resulting in the following three groups.
busname = 渋11
destination = 渋谷駅
boardedat = 駒沢大学駅
If you are working in PHP you can also use the following:\p{Han} (Using Chinese to match Kanji)\p{Hiragana}\p{Katakana}
You can also checkout my Regex Experiments:
v1 PHP
v2 Python3