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.

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.

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.