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Here we give you some examples, comparing JiShop with other popular kanji dictionaries, namely:
| "Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary" by Andrew Nelson |
| "The Kanji Dictionary" by Mark Spahn and Wolfgang Hadamitzky (S/H) |
| "New Japanese-English Character Dictionary" by Jack Halpern |
WWWJDIC, online resource based on KANJIDIC and EDICT dictionary files
and used in many freeware programs (zKanji, etc.) |
The characters chosen for these examples are not the most common ones. However, they are the best to show you
how much more information JiShop can give you as compared with other sources.
| | Example 1. JiShop defines a kanji accurately,
clearly differentiating between on-yomi, kun-yomi and compound words.
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| Nelson: | Heki. tama (see under 球) |
| S/H: | HEKI, tama pierced jewel-disk, jewel; splendid
kanpeki perfect, flawless |
| WWWJDIC: | ヘキ たま sphere; ball |
| Halpern: | not included |
| JiShop: |
Entry no. 4559 |
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| | Example 2. Characters representing plants and animals are defined accurately, in full detail, with Latin names and clear distinction between genus and species.
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| Nelson: | shigi snipe |
| S/H: | shigi snipe, sandpiper |
| WWWJDIC: | しぎ snipe |
| Halpern: | not included |
| JiShop: |
Entry no. 1146 |
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| | Example 3. Some dictonaries give you a completely wrong idea about a character. The kanji below can mean "cobalt" only in Chinese but never in Japanese. JiShop always gives you correct information about actual usage of kanji in modern Japanese language.
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| Nelson: | not included |
| S/H: | KO cobalt |
| WWWJDIC: | コ cobalt |
| Halpern: | not included |
| JiShop: |
Entry no. 810 |
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| | Example 4. Some kanji are variants of other characters but can have different functions. This is never ignored in JiShop.
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| Nelson: | See 裏 |
| S/H: | See 裏 |
| WWWJDIC: | リ うち うら reverse; inside; palm; sole; rear; lining; wrong side |
| Halpern: | nonstandard for 裏 |
| JiShop: |
Entry no. 2823 |
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| | Example 5. Rare kanji traditionally used as key radicals ('bushu') are sometimes entered into dictionaries only as radicals. JiShop defines their character functions as well.
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| Nelson: | Majiwaru to mix (included only as a radical) |
| S/H: | KO: divination-stick pattern; intersect |
| WWWJDIC: | コウ ギョウ まじ.わる めめ まじわる to mix with; to associate with; to join; double X radical |
| Halpern: | meme 'crisscross' (included only as a radical) |
| JiShop: |
Entry no. 4480 |
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| | Example 6. JiShop is most particular in defining kun readings and other individual words.
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| Nelson: | kaza(su) hold aloft; shade (the eyes); stick (something) in the hair. kasu(mu) be purblind.
目 kasumime blurred eyes |
| S/H: | EI shade, block the light, dim
kaza(su) hold up (to the light); stick (a flower) in one's hair
kasu(mu) have dim eyesight
翳目 kasu(mi)me dim eyesight, partial blindness
陰翳 in'ei shadow; shading; gloom
振翳 fu(ri)kaza(su) fling up, brandish
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| WWWJDIC: | エイ かげ かげ.る かざ.す きぬがさ くも.る くもり hold aloft |
| Halpern: |
a) [now replaced by 影 ei] shadow, shade
b) [now usu. 陰り kageri] shade; gloom
暗翳 an'ei shadow, gloom
陰翳 in'ei shadow
翳りの有る顔 kageri no aru kao face shaded with pensiveness |
| JiShop: |
Entry no. 5075 |
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| | Example 7. JISHOP fully explores modern informational capabilities, completely lacked by its predecessors. All the data for the entry below were found on the Web because the available paper sources contained too little information about this kanji.
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| Nelson: | not included |
| S/H: | HA flower, petal |
| WWWJDIC: | ハ はな flower; petal |
| Halpern: | not included |
| JISHOP: |
Entry no. 5282 |
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