Japanese<->English Dictionary

Welcome to Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary Server! Also see the searchable database of kanji information. If your browser does have Japanese support, check here. If you're using a browser such as lynx, use a this version tailored for tty-based browsers. This page available without colors, etc.

This server has a mirror in San Jose, California, USA, and another in Kahaluu, Hawaii, USA. There's an experimental mirror in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This server's web space kindly provided by Robert Henney.

First time? If so, instructions and such are at the bottom of this page.
Search in dictionaries of [ words ; names ; legal terms ; life-science terms ; Four-Character Idiomatic Compounds ; aviation terms ; computer terms ; compound verbs terms ; concrete terms ; engineering and science terms ; environment terms ; finance terms ; forestry terms ; riverwater terms ; manufacturing terms ; geological terms ; Japanese place names ; linguistics terms ; marketing terms ; pulp and paper terms ; star and constellation names ; Buddhist Terms ; Chemical Terms ; French-Japanese dictionary ] with search key:
given as the text

[ disable fuzzy search for Japanese lookups ]

[Search only commonly-used words ] [Restrict to word-class (EDICT tags) ]

You can customize various things for all interactions with my dictionary system (see here), or use the following for some one-time changes for the dictionary lookup only: [Japanese text image foreground color ] [Japanese text image background color ] [size ] [print vertically ] [kanji should be inlined (kana-only entries too ) ] [link kanji information ] [link external search engines ]

News: The searchable database of kanji information now supports lookups of kanji by pasting it into a search request. (But you need to have chosen a Japanese encoding at the beginning).

News: If you select Japanese place names or the names dictionaries as well as the link to external search engines, you can try your hand at seeing if Google Maps has info on it.

News: You can now customize various things in this server. See the Change notes for more info.

News: You can now search for JIS-X-0212 kanji in the searchable database of kanji information.

Notes

Here are some items to check out:

General overview, with links to other Japanese-related information sources
Change notes and story about this server
About the search key
Credits, with information about who is doing this and the data sources.
There is also a database of kanji information, with a bazillion ways to search for characters
Here's a note about how to search via raw kanji, even if your browser doesn't support Japanese
You can also submit items to add to the dictionary
News: To Do list, updated.
Comments appreciated!

This server's software (CGI) was last modified 4 months, 5 days ago.

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