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CONTENTS OF THE DICTIONARY
Lexicon
Sentences
Kanji
LEXICON English interface
Jap-to-Eng and Eng-to-Jap translations
Translated vocabulary/expressions instead of definitions
LEXICON Searching can be carried out in kana, rômaji or kanji
Locates the base form of inflected words
Notes on usage:
Common or rare
Meaning restricted to specific contexts
Register or dialect
LEXICON
SENTENCES Jap-Eng/Eng-Jap bilingual sentences
Not always perfectly accurate
KANJI Search by radicals
Example: 言
説 獄 話 罰
No need to identify every radical
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EXTENT OF THE CONTENTS
110,000 up-to-date entries for general terms
12,000 on computing and communications
14,000 entries relating to engineering and science
720,000 Japanese names
160,000 bilingual example sentences
13,039 kanji
CONCLUSION
Offers varied functions
Recommendable tool for non-native Japanese students
Useful to train kanji memorizing skills
Effectively combines data from different sources into a single dictionary
