The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary

Revised & Expanded: 2nd Edition

Jack Halpern, Y.H. Tohsaku

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Kodansha America, Inc
19 April 2022

Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries; Language teaching & learning material & coursework

A revised, expanded edition of the best-selling Japanese-English character dictionary-now with all the current Joyo and Jinmei Kanji.

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.

Compounds pose a special problem for learners. Normally one must memorize them as unrelated units. A unique feature of this dictionary that overcomes this difficulty is the core meaning, a concise keyword that defines the dominant sense of each kanji, followed by character meanings, or specific senses the kanji can have when used in the living language. Together these features help learners understand the logic behind compound formation.

Another unique feature is 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. With SKIP, all one needs 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.

In 2020 the government expanded the Educational Kanji list from 1006 to 1026 characters to cover the characters used in all Japanese prefecture names. This edition includes these revisions along with illustrative compounds words.

These features, and many more, make this dictionary the most powerful kanji-learning tool ever devised.

Foreword by: Y.H. Tohsaku
Edited by: Jack Halpern
Imprint: Kodansha America, Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 183mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 924g
ISBN: 9781568366258
ISBN 10: 1568366256
Pages: 1248
Publication Date: 19 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Editor-in-Chief Jack Halpern is the CEO of THE CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI) in Japan. The Institute is one of the world's prime sources for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) dictionaries, and specializes in compiling comprehensive CJK and Arabic lexical databases. A lexicographer by profession, Halpern spent sixteen years compiling the New Japanese-Englis Character Dictionary, also newly revised and republished as The Kodansha Kanji Dictionary.

Reviews for The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary: Revised & Expanded: 2nd Edition

Up-to-date, reliable, and easy to use ... this beautifully designed dictionary meets the needs of a wide range of Japanese language learners. -Y.-H. Tohsaku, President, American Association of Teachers of Japanese A must for those who wish to overcome the obstacles posed by the study of kanji ... an excellent tool that allows even beginners to look up kanji with ease. -Akito Ozaki, President, The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language