Kodansha Kanji Dictionary

Jack Halpern

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Kodansha International
01 July 2017

Dictionaries; Languages & ESL; Kanji Characters; Japanese - Languages

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.

By: Jack Halpern
Imprint: Kodansha International
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 74mm
Weight: 1.892kg
ISBN: 9781568364087
ISBN 10: 1568364083
Pages: 2000
Publication Date: 01 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 more than twenty years compiling this dictionary and its predecessor, the New Japanese-English Character Dictionary.

Reviews for Kodansha Kanji Dictionary

Unrivaled in terms of both quantity and quality . . . this dictionary will satisfy the needs of kanji learners the world over. --Shigeko Miyazaki, Chair of the Board, Association for Japanese-Language Teaching (AJALT)

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