Kanjidic2 Edict2

Any one of these kanjidic2 characters followed by an '*' character will give the most direct access to the edict2 dictionary view at kanji.aule-browser.com.

Here is a snap of the top of the HTML page of the Kanjidic2 characters:

Recognizing Kanji

I find that the Henshall page a kanji.aule-browser.com works well with the Beta 9.05 dictionary page.

Once I recognize the kanji on the first page, I can see the double character expressions in Edict2 on the second page.

These 9 kanji, taken in order descending the Henshall page, will traverse the Edct2 dictionary:

    意    観      好    昭      情      送      到      貿       礼

The Henshall kanji page begins as follows:

and the second, the dictionary, follows in order as:

The dictionary look-up does require the RTE browser plugin from Tokyo's SCSK Corp at curl.com.

There will soon be pages linking directly into the dictionary just as I now have pages linked into  wiktionary.org.

Those pages will start as Henshall, Heisig, Jōyō and Tuttle kanji sets.

kanji buttons

There are a few Japanese kanji on the buttons of the beta 0.903 of the Double-Kanji dictionary at kanji.aule-browser.com.

Here is a screenshot with the new NAV buttons:

A new filter option will add expressions that are two Kanji plus a single Katakana or Hiragana character.

In a few days the new UI and functionality will be the full dictionary with Katakana and Hiragana (simply without the double-character filter selected.)

The last feature is about two days away: browsing each item with details in a larger format.

Edict2 J-E Dictionary

The Curl version of Edict2 is now testing on-line and as a desktop app (where it is very fast.)

Today added wildcard behavior for single kanji ( 来*) and behavior to roll backwards through the dictionary (the aim is no to have the dictionary in memory and to use no indices.)

Here is a snapshot of how things look today after a search on 遠来 :

From the scroll bar you can see we have about one "page" loaded.

The button bottom left rolls in the previous 2000 entries. Tomorrow: partial matches logic.

Edict2 in plain HTML (no scripts, frames etc)

http://kanji.aule-browser.com/edict2-kanji-sliced-1-9.html

Edict2 rendered as 9 kanji pages and 3 katakana pages in plain HTML-only. These pages offer the ability to browse this extensive Japanese-English dictionary on-line.

Below is an example page:

That page is using the free HanMinA font which adds a few seconds to the initial download.


Look-up widgets to follow for HTML+JavaScript and HTML+Curl pages.

岸 河原

From one kanji  岸 to a compound 河原 via a known kanji  河 and I finally "grok" them both !

see also:

遠島

火山列島

at edict2 in utf-8 PLAIN HTML (page may take 30 seconds to load - no scripts)

Be sure your browser view has character encoding set to utf-8 if you have an issue.

Split HTML pages (6 ? 7 ?) in lovely free HanaMinA font later today.

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compound kanji definitions

A dictionary popup is now part of my Curl® Japanese haiku pages: (声 link)

Single kanji definitions are drawn from kanjidic2 and compound kanji from a set of 9 Curl binary selections from edict2.  At the moment only compounds at the beginning of an entry are found (those forming the initial characters of an expression.)  For our purposes, the full set of 162,000+ entries has been resuced to roughly 122,000.

Dictionaries are not loaded unless needed and that need is determined by membership of kanji in Char Set's ( in Curl, a CharClass) which, incidentally, has a {fold } expression available.