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  2. JMdict - Wikipedia

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    JMdict (Japanese–Multilingual Dictionary) is a large machine-readable multilingual Japanese dictionary. As of March 2023, it contains Japanese – English translations for around 199,000 entries, representing 282,000 unique headword-reading combinations.

  3. List of Japanese dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of notable print, electronic, and online Japanese dictionaries. This is a sortable table: clicking the arrows in the header cells will cause the table rows to sort based on the selected column, in ascending order first, and subsequently toggling between ascending and descending order.

  4. Japanese dictionary - Wikipedia

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    First, it will be useful to introduce some key Japanese terms for dictionaries and collation (ordering of entry words) that the following discussion will be using.. The Wiktionary uses the English word dictionary to define a few synonyms including lexicon, wordbook, vocabulary, thesaurus, and translating dictionary.

  5. Japanese honorifics - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.

  6. Nihon Kokugo Daijiten - Wikipedia

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    The Second edition is the largest Japanese dictionary published with roughly 500,000 entries and supposedly 1,000,000 example sentences. It was composed under the collaboration of 3000 specialists, not merely Japanese language and literature scholars but also specialists of History , Buddhist studies , the Chinese Classics , and the social and ...

  7. Daijirin - Wikipedia

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    The result, for a person reading modern Japanese, is that Daijirin is the most likely to list the intended meaning where it can be found easily. [4] The other two Daijirin advantages are semantically "more detailed" definitions and the "unusual, though not unprecedented" kanji and reverse-dictionary index. Baroni and Bialock describe Daijirin,

  8. Honorific speech in Japanese - Wikipedia

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    For example, 読 ( よ ) む, yomu (read) becomes o-yomi ni naru, with the prefix o-added to the i-form of the verb, and the verb ending ni naru. The verb ending -(r)areru can also be used, such as yomareru. Nouns also undergo substitution to express respect. The normal Japanese word for person hito (人) becomes kata (方) in

  9. Shin Meikai kokugo jiten - Wikipedia

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    This Japanese language reference work has frequently undergone revisions and republications. The first two editions were called the Meikai kokugo jiten (明解国語辞典, "Clear-understanding Japanese dictionary"), and the six subsequent ones were published under the current Shin "New" name. 1943, 1st edition Meikai kokugo jiten