A revised, expanded edition of the best-selling Japanese-English character dictionary—the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of its kind, with over 3,000 characters
Japanese language learners now have instant access to a wealth of accurate and in-depth information on
kanji, including their meanings, readings, stroke order, and usage in compounds.
Includes the
System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns (SKIP), a revolutionary indexing system that has gained widespread popularity because it enables the user to locate characters as quickly and as accurately as in alphabetical dictionaries.
Features include:
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3,002 kanji entries—772 more than in the first edition—reflecting recent changes in the government-prescribed Jōyō and Jinmei Kanji lists
• Includes
latest 2020 revision of Education Kanji from 1006 to 1026
• Readings shown in
kana instead of romanized Japanese
• Core meaning keywords that define the dominant sense of each kanji, followed by
character meanings, or specific senses the kanji can have when used in the living language
• Thousands more
compounds and other usage examples
• Expanded coverage of
name readingsGives
alternative forms of kanji when more than one is considered acceptable according to the most recent Jōyō Kanji specifications
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Cross-references to entries in
The Kodansha Kanji Dictionary, a revised and expanded edition of the
New Japanese-English Character Dictionary Kodansha’s
Kanji Learner’s Dictionary is the most powerful kanji-learning tool ever devised.
"A revised, expanded edition of the best-selling Japanese-English character dictionary--now with all the current Jåoyåo and Jinmei Kanji"
