Showing posts with label kanji jisho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kanji jisho. Show all posts

Monday 17 February 2014

jisho HO - is a fire starting ?


As fine a kanji tool as jisho.org is, it does have subtle flaws.  Take



カ /  ひ· -び· ほ-
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火星     かせい     Mars (planet)

火        ひ     fire; flame; blaze

口火        くちび     fuse; spark plug; cause (of war); origin (of a quarrel)

BUT - no common word begins ほ- and has a kanji that starts with FIRE.

And some few uncommon words ( e.g., for tongs (i.e., the tool) ) begin KO !

It is enough to KAuse you Hee-Bee-JI-bee's ... or did I miss one in the 15 pages of 377 words beginning with ほ ?  But I only want to see jukugo !

So there is a place for smart app's that use kanjidic2 or jmdict ...