Questions regarding those resources, paper or digital, which typically list many words of a language in a specified order, along with usually a definitions or a close equivalent in another language. Many other specialized types of dictionary also exist.
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Are all words stripped of bikago when listed in dictionaries?
When checking dictionaries (jisho.org and Wiktionary) for お名前, I found that it wasn't listed as お名前, but only as 名前. Do most dictionaries strip bikago from all words, or do they typically strip bikago ...
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Textbook on Technical Japanese [closed]
Anyone know a good dictionary for technical Japanese? Specifically I'm looking for something with a math/electrical engineering focus. If there is a Japanese-Japanese dictionary of this kind, all the ...
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What does exactly does さま mean in dictionary definitions?
I've been using Japanese-Japanese dictionaries for a while now and this keeps popping up. It seems to me like a kind of usage that is found for the most part only in dictionaries. Can anyone help ...
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-たい words and a student's confusion
I was doing some Rosetta Stone earlier, and I came upon a sentence ending with:
行きたいです。
Noting the "たい" part, I was reminded of the word
食べたいです
which I think I first saw in Japanese 1010, ...
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Grammar dictionary [closed]
The dictionary that I use primarily is http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/ . I wanted to know of good sources online for looking up how different aspects of Japanese grammar work. I would prefer it if the ...
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Is 胡 missplaced in the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary? [closed]
I recently tried to look up the kanji 胡 in the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary, which uses the SKIP method to look up each kanji, and I couldn't find it. It seemed to me a relatively ...
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Why are there two versions of the kanji for "tsumetai'?
The screenshot below is from Kotoba for iPhone.
It shows the character for "cool", as used in the word "tsumetai". However, the character in the stroke order diagram is slightly different to the ...
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Is there an online list of frequently used words in the news?
There are a few books with lists of words and kanji compounds found in the news. Like this one, this one, and this one.
However, unless one wants to spend a lot of time doing data entry, they don't ...
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I am looking for an online Japanese dictionary with audio pronunciations
Does anyone know any online Japanese dictionary which provides audio reading?
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Written resources for scientific and philosophic japanese?
In this Question about computer science jargon, most answers to date are electronic resources and that makes sense.
But I would like to know if there are printed japanese/english or japanese/german ...
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Nuances between the different kanji spellings of あける：明ける vs. 開ける vs. 空ける
開ける, 明ける and 空ける are all read as あける.
From their kanji, it is obvious that 開ける has to do more with opening (a door etc), 明ける with dawning and 空ける with emptying...
However, JMDict gives the exact ...
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What are the Japanese terms for “character dictionary”? “漢辞海”? “漢字典”?
I'm looking for a cheap secondhand character dictionary in Japan but:
I don't know if there is one or more kind of these, and I don't know what they are called.
Two I saw had these on their spines, ...
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Japanese dictionary for mathematics/computer science jargon
I study mathematics and computer science, and I'm starting to learn japanese. Could you suggest me dictionaries/sites/etc where I could learn terminology on these subjects?
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What should I look for in a dictionary to help me study?
As per the title, what should I look for in a dictionary to help me study Japanese? Are there certain things that I should look for in the dictionary or are they all pretty much the same?
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