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With The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary: Revised and Expanded,
learners finally have at their fingertips accurate and in-depth
information on all the kanji prescribed by the Japanese government.
In all, 3,002 characters 772 more than in the first edition fill
its pages, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date
dictionary of its kind. The main goal of the dictionary is to give
the learner instant access to a wealth of useful information on
kanji, including their meanings, readings, stroke order, and usage
in compounds.
This is an innovative and highly effective system for learning and
remembering kanji, or Sino-Japanese character. It contains all
2,136 common 'joyo' kanji, and 164 useful non-joyo kanji. They are
specially arranged to maximise efficiency of acquisition. One of
the title's key features is mnemonic devices - orginal stories for
each kanji that teaches learners to associate graphical components
with images linked to the character's meaning.
The Kodansha Kanji Dictionary-a revised, expanded edition of Jack
Halpern's groundbreaking New Japanese-English Character
Dictionary-is the most complete, linguistically accurate, and
up-to-date dictionary of its kind. The culmination of more than
twenty years of labor-some one hundred man-years-this authoritative
and easy-to-use dictionary has been celebrated the world over by
students and teachers of the Japanese language for its wealth of
detailed information on the meanings and usages of Sino-Japanese
characters.
One of the unique features that has made this dictionary so popular
is the core meaning, a concise keyword that facilitates an instant
grasp of the fundamental concept of each kanji. Along with detailed
character meanings, the core meaning helps learners decode
unfamiliar compound words from the meanings of their components.
Another unique feature is the System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns
(SKIP), a revolutionary indexing system that makes it possible to
locate entries as quickly and as accurately as in alphabetical
dictionaries. With SKIP, all you need to do to find a kanji is
identify the geometrical pattern to which it belongs, then count
the strokes in each part of that pattern-a much speedier process
than searching by traditional methods such as by radical.
Updates include the integration of 5,458 entry characters-almost 20
percent more than in the first edition. This includes all the
government-prescribed Joyo and Jinmei Kanji, as well as extensive
coverage of old and alternative character forms. The new edition
also features more readings, meanings, synonym articles, usage
notes, and vocabulary items than before. And, in keeping with
modern Japanese-language curricula, character and compound readings
are shown in kana instead of romanized Japanese.
With its wealth of detailed and up-to-date information on kanji
meanings, readings, and usages, its accessible new design, its
convenient lookup methods (six including SKIP), and its added
content, this dictionary is certain to satisfy the needs of
students, teachers, scholars, translators-anyone who uses the
Japanese language.
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