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kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequ ...

dictionary published with

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speakers in mind. It is an updated version of the original dictionary authored by Andrew N. Nelson, '' The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary''. The primary change in the new version is the adoption of the traditional 214 Kangxi radicals as the dictionary's main indexing method. The dictionary also features two additional indices: the Universal Radical Index and the on-kun index. The dictionary uses

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throughout. On-yomi readings of the kanji are denoted by

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and kun-yomi by italics.

Okurigana are kana suffixes following kanji stems in Japanese written words. They serve two purposes: to inflect adjectives and verbs, and to force a particular kanji to have a specific meaning and be read a certain way. For example, the plain verb fo ...

are separated by parentheses. The ''New Nelson'' contains about 7,000 entries, many of which are actually variant characters. Every character has index numbers into the Morohashi dictionary and the Japanese

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standard if they exist. All characters are prioritized by their Jōyō simplifications, however traditional forms are provided for every one.

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simplifications are not included in the variants of a character, however those characters do point to the main entry.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary Japanese dictionaries Tuttle Publishing books 1997 non-fiction books