New Japanese-English Character Dictionary
The New Japanese-English Character Dictionary features an easy-to-use,
quick lookup system for looking up kanji characters using the pattern
and also has indexes for lookup by the character's reading and stroke
count. Moreover, compound examples are not limited to compounds where
the kanji character appears first. In addition to a core
meaning, this dictionary also provides the wide range of diverse meanings
for each character. This is useful if you need to infer the meaning of
a certain compound which is not listed in any dictionary. This is also
a tremendous aid for gaining a complete grasp of a kanji character and
its compounds.
This dictionary
contains 4421 entry characters, including 834 cross-reference characters.
Although this is less than the number of characters in Nelson's Dictionary, this should more than suffice for the student of Japanese. As you progress in your studies, your next step would be to use this dictionary in combination with
a kan-wa jiten (kanji character-Japanese dictionary) having at least 10,000
characters.
Hardcover. 1992 pages.
For advanced users, CD-ROM Japanese dictionaries (Kojien and Daijirin) enable look up of kanji (thus serving as a kan-wa jiten) in addition to regular word compounds. |