Customizing the Kanji Database Server

Customizations in defining the search

• For the Index Method:
  The default index type should be Halpern index Halpern Kanji Learners index S&H Kanji Dictionary index S&H Kana & Kanji index Nelson index New Nelson index Henshall Remembering Japanese Characters index Henshall Reading & Writing Japanese Sakade Reading & Writing Japanese Heisig index De Roo dictionary index O'Neill Essential Kanji index O'Neill Japanese Names Morohashi index Morohashi Volume & Page index Japanese for Busy People Kanji In Context Crowley's Japanese Language Power Gakken index Frequency-of-use index JIS code (hex) EUC code (hex) Shift-JIS code (hex) Kuten code (decimal) UNICODE code (hex) .

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• For the Cull Method: Select the items you want to be prompted for (the items you don't select will be available, but shoved to the very end of the form, out of the way).
  Halpern SKIP code:
  Reading(s):
  Number of strokes:
  Radical number:
  Four-corner code:
  Chinese Pinyin:
  Korean Readings:
  general English tags:
  
  Default overall cull limit: grade-school characters government-approved characters most common 2,200 characters least common characters characters in Halpern characters in Nelson characters in New Nelson entire database entire database and JIS X 0212 kanji .

Customizations in what is returned

Select the items you would like returned for each kanji found:

• Data about the kanji:
  • Grade level ranking
  • Frequency-of-use
  • Readings
  • Pinyin (Chinese readings)
  • Korean readings
  • English tags
  • Radical number
  • Stroke count

• The character in various encoding methods:
  • JIS code
  • EUC code
  • kuten code
  • Shift-JIS code
  • unicode code

• Lookup method keys
  • Halpern's SKIP code
  • Four-Corner code

• Indices into various reference works:
  • Halpern Index
  • Halpern Index - Kanji Learners
  • S&H Kanji Dictionary Index
  • S&H Kana and Kanji Index
  • Nelson Index
  • New Nelson Index
  • Henshall Remebering Japanese Characters Index
  • Henshall Reading/Writing Japanese Index
  • Heisig Index
  • De Roo Index
  • O'Neill Essential Kanji Index
  • O'Neill Japanese Names Index
  • Morohashi Index
  • Morohashi Page & Volume Index
  • Gakken Index
  • Japanese For Busy People Index
  • Japanese Language Power Index
  • Compact Kanji Index
  • Kanji In Context Index
  • Sakade Reading/Writing Japanese Index
  • Tuttle Kanji Card Index
  • Misclassification codes
  • Cross-reference codes

• ASCII text-only pix of kanji:
  • none
  • 18-pixel (not really very readable except for simple kanji).
  • 26-pixel ("ok", but not for complex kanji -- good for a tty-based browser)
  • 48-pixel (huge, but really great).
  • 64-pixel (jumbo, sumo, whatever you want call it).
  • 96-pixel (super jumbo, really huge, and possibly slow to generate).

For when text-as-image GIFs are created:

• Images should be inlined: (but note this warning)
• Image text size: ,
• Image text foreground color: white black red green blue yellow aqua magenta
• Image text background color: white black red green blue yellow aqua magenta

To have everything above take effect, and you'll be returned to the Kanji Lookup Page.