The Kodansha Kanji Dictionary

I'm very pleased with this purchase. It was a bit expensive but it's worth every penny. The amount of detail and number of characters covered is amazing. It is a serious must have reference.

I used to own the paper version of this dictionary, years ago. I had forgotten all about it until I recently re discovered the dictionary on kindle. As soon as I had downloaded the free sample, I instantly recognised my favourite old kanji dictionary from the unique SKIP pattern/stroke count system that allows one to locate a character diectly in the dictionary, without having refer to a seperate index.After a very quick bit of testing, to make sure that the e-book worked OK on my Android device - ( not always the case), it didn't take me very long at all to make the decission to fork out for the full dictionary.Well worth every penny. I feel like I have been re united with an old friend!

I dont normally write product reviews but I had to with this book. It is a massive dictionary and it looks stunning on my book shelf. It is worth every penny and it has so much kanji so if you are on a budget and you can only buy 1 kanji dictionary definitely pick this because you won't regret it.

This is definitely the kanji dictionary every japanese learner should get. It will help not only with the joyo kanji but also with an additional 1900 other kanji and will increase your vocabulary a lot.When I first read the cover it said 5349 entries but then I found it had only 4408 kanji entries. I thought I had been cheated but very soon I found out that the difference in entries was thanks to the cross-reference kanji's which help you throughout the book to find their correct place in the SKIP systemLoving this book. Definitely.

The pattern index, which allows efficient lookups without trying to guess at radicals, takes this from a merely excellent dictionary to a truly outstanding one.

cannot find とびら although one of the 3 varianr kanji is an entry in the dictionary at 扉 but not 扉 ???Yet "tobira" is in the dict as hiragana selectable text !?!

This massive tome contains every kanji that you would normally find in Japanese literature. It also contains a lookup system for identifying kanji by the radicals, which allows you to very quickly identify any kanji that you encounter while reading. This dictionary would be an asset to anyone who who wants to be able to read Japanese texts, whether they're an advanced level student, an intermediate level student, a hobbyist, or a professional. There are many online dictionaries available for Japanese-to-English translation, but in many cases I find this more useful.

This book is awesome, it's got all the kanji you need to read and write today's Japanese; it shows stroke order for every character from the Joyo list (2,136 updated) except for the name kanji wich have got no stroke order. If that isn't enough the entries have Chinese reading for simplified hanzi (useful for those of us who study Chinese too can compare both languages inmediately!) and you must remember Chinese created the characters and Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese just imported them, well if someday I met Jack Halpern I'd shake his hand for sure because he simplified everything to us.

I bought it as a next step book after I made the purchase for the smaller yet extremely useful volume of The Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary Revised and Expanded Edition by Jack Halpern.It is just as useful as the aforementioned book, but it has more characters, slightly, 4,500 to be precise.Follows similar pattern of finding a Kanji character as in KKLD.It has a few extra additions in the appendices, which can be seen in the images I have attached within the review.Satisfaction =100%

Simplemente el mayor compendio de caracteres Kanji existente en occidente, bien editado, quizás me gustaría que fuera algo más grande para visualizar con más nitidez los pasos para escribir, pero en todo caso es un libro tremendo…Con más de 4.400 caracteres independientes, cada uno cuenta con una gran cantidad de datos, entre ellos los más destacables: _ Número de identificación para facilitar las referencias y la búsqueda _ Traducción principal al inglés. _ Formas de lectura. _ Radical _ Orden de escritura de los trazos.Para completar la obra y facilitar las búsquedas, dispone de varios apéndices y lo único que puede sorprender es su sistema de indexación, que una vez te acostumbras se hace bastante fluido.Una obra impresionante por su extensión y la calidad de la información, que tanto profesores como estudiosos del idioma nipón deberían disponer…

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Tous ceux qui apprennent le japonais ou comptent apprendre le japonais auront sûrement envie de posséder un gros dictionnaire des kanji. Celui-ci est très bien fait. Les kanji sont rangés par clefs. C'est KODANSHA qui publie, donc c'est une valeur sûre. Le seul regret qu'un Français puisse avoir est que ce dictionnaire n'existe pas dans une version franco-japonaise. Mais si vous maîtrisez les bases de l'anglais, cela ne vous posera aucun problème.

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