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Jack Halpern (春遍雀來, ハルペン・ジャック, جاك هلبرن) is a Japan-based lexicographer specializing in Chinese characters, namely kanji.He is best known as editor-in-chief of the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary [1] and as the inventor of the SKIP system for kanji lookup.
Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as kango (Japanese: 漢語, pronounced, "Han words"), is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or was created from elements borrowed from Chinese. Some grammatical structures and sentence patterns can also be identified as Sino-Japanese.
general-purpose dictionary of Japanese history, 15 volumes The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary: 1962, 1974: Andrew Nelson's kanji dictionary, 5,446 entries Moji: 2011: open source, cross-platform extension for using Japanese and Chinese dictionaries The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary: 1997
One of the first kawaraban ever printed, depicting the fall of Osaka Castle, 17th century. Japanese newspapers began in the 17th century as yomiuri (読売, literally 'to read and sell') or kawaraban (瓦版, literally 'tile-block printing', referring to the use of clay printing blocks), which were printed handbills sold in major cities to commemorate major social gatherings or events.
The Dai Kan-Wa Jiten (大漢和辞典, "The Great Chinese–Japanese Dictionary") is a Japanese dictionary of kanji (Chinese characters) compiled by Tetsuji Morohashi. Remarkable for its comprehensiveness and size, Morohashi's dictionary contains over 50,000 character entries and 530,000 compound words .
The Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞, lit. ' Daily Newspaper ') is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by The Mainichi Newspapers Co. [5] [6] In addition to the Mainichi Shimbun, which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called The Mainichi [7] (previously Mainichi Daily News, abbreviated MDN), and publishes a ...
Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese: 1947: Yuen Ren Chao's and Yang Lien-sheng's first Chinese dictionary for spoken language Dai Kan-Wa Jiten: 1955–1960, 2000 (Japan) Tetsuji Morohashi's Chinese-Japanese character dictionary, 50,305 entries Erya: 250 BC (Warring States) Oldest extant Chinese dictionary, semantic field collation, one of the ...
The Sanseidō kokugo jiten (三省堂国語辞典, Sanseido's Japanese Dictionary), or the Sankoku (三国) for short, is a general-purpose Japanese dictionary. It is closely affiliated with another contemporary dictionary published by Sanseidō, the Shin Meikai kokugo jiten. The Sanseidō kokugo jiten has been revised about once a decade.