The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary: Revised and Expanded

ISBN 10: 1568364075 / ISBN 13: 9781568364070

Published by Kodansha International, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary: Revised and Expanded
• Publisher: Kodansha International
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568364075
• ISBN 13: 9781568364070
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1781453372.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 26556192
• Signed: 6/14/2026 4:09:32 PM
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Synopsis

With The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary: Revised and Expanded, learners finally have at their fingertips accurate and in-depth information on all the kanji prescribed by the Japanese government. In all, 3,002 characters-772 more than in the first edition-fill its pages, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of its kind.

The main goal of the dictionary is to give the learner instant access to a wealth of useful information on kanji, including their meanings, readings, stroke order, and usage in compounds.

Compounds pose a special problem for learners. Normally one must memorize them as unrelated units. A unique feature of this dictionary that overcomes this difficulty is the core meaning, a concise keyword that defines the dominant sense of each kanji, followed by character meanings, or specific senses the kanji can have when used in the living language. Together these features help learners understand the logic behind compound formation.

Another unique feature is the System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns (SKIP), a revolutionary indexing system that has gained widespread popularity because it enables the user to locate characters as quickly and as accurately as in alphabetical dictionaries. With SKIP, all one needs to do to find a kanji is identify the geometrical pattern to which it belongs, then count the strokes in each part of that pattern-a much speedier process than searching by traditional methods.

These features, and many more, make this dictionary the most powerful kanji-learning tool ever devised.

About the Author

Editor-in-Chief Jack Halpern is the CEO of The CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI) in Japan. The institute is one of the world's prime sources for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) dictionaries, and specializes in compiling comprehensive CJK and Arabic lexical databases. A lexicographer by profession, Halpern spent sixteen years compiling the New Japanese-English Character Dictionary, also newly revised and republished as The Kodansha Kanji Dictionary.