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The Kanji Dictionary (English and Japanese Edition)

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Pros

This book is huge, it's like the grand lexicon of kanji. With all this information, the book is a hefty travel companion. This won't be your one-and-only kanji dictionary.

Just about every kanji or kanji compound you can think of is included. Can look up compounds using any character in the compound. Kanji characters appear in countless combinations, and these change both their meaning and pronunciation.

The system the authors developed is the first rational approach in that it does not require that you know what the important radical is in order to look up a kanji. The 2 - 9 * * are listed on the front and back binding cover sheets with their locatio... Read More

Cons

This is not a all japanese, this is chinese english book. Also it's really hard to look up the kanji. This is a chinese english book.

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Quality

It's neat and organized and was easy to use even when i was first learning kanji.

This is a hefty book and it has a slip cover to keep it from getting too banged up.

I have also run into difficulties with the binding - my spine has fallen off and only the glue/cloth is holding the whole thing together.

Using the analogy of chemistry, if a kanji character were the chemical compound, the list of 79 "radicals" is the periodic tabl... Read More

Shipping

Delivery of my order was pretty much exactly as promised by amazon.

Came in mail super fast and was happy with the product!

Packaging/appearance

I am using it to identify kanji and for unpacking/deconstructing kanji for an archeology which provides information about how t... Read More

Competitiveness

This is my only kamji dictionary, so i don't really have a comparison for it, but i find it extremely useful.

I find this book excellent, especially when compared to the others of its type, especially when it comes to numbering the kanji.

It is similar to using the oxford english dictionary as it provides many layers of information.

In this topic, i think kodansha is a better one.

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This product had a total of 65 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 18 2024.