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Ive recently been developing a new online Japanese dictionary for Japanese learners at http:/ /www.romajidesu.com. Why bother creating a new dictionary while there are already good one out there, you may ask. This article aims at trying to answer that question.
to choose from different places. For example you can type in a English, or a Kanji itself, or you can type in hiragana or katakana to look for Kanji that has matched kun- and on-reading respectively. Further, you can browse for specific set of Kanji, for example you can type in strokes:5 to get the list of Kanji that have 5 strokes, grade:3 to find the list joujou Kanji which are learnt at grade 3 of Japanese school, or jlpt:2 for the list of Kanji needed for kyu-2 of the original Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT). There is also a multi-radical Kanji lookup form for that enable you to choose different radicals and combine them together to get the Kanji you need (Fig 3.). If the number of matched Kanji is large, the result page will show as a list of tiled For the list of tiled Kanji (Fig. 4). For users to get the Kanji they need, each Kanji in the list contains a sample English sense of meaning (notice that one Kanji may has many senses). If the number of matched Kanji is small, the result page will show a list of details Kanji information (Fig. 5). For detailed display, a Kanji is packed with many useful information: on- and kun-reading, English senses, some example Japanese words, main radical and components, and a nicely drawn Kanji stroke order diagram in free hand style if possible. There are approximately 6400 such diagrams which is of course more than enough to cover all the popular Kanji. In short, RomajiDesu is developed by and for Japanese learners like myself and it aims at developing simple but powerful methods for looking up Japanese words, phrases and Kanji. Therere some other information of which you can see in some other online dictionaries, such as dictionary indices, glossaries in other languages. I decided not to include those information because to my opinion, most Japanese learners dont need those and it will decrease to focus on the essential one.
Figure 1. The ealiest verion (alpha) of RomajiDesu is only a Romaji to Hiragana converter
Figure 4. A Kanji search result for keyword love. The brief listing is automatically selected.