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WinJDIC

(Japanese Dictionary

for Windows)

Welcome to JDIC for Windows!

To learn how to use Help press F1.

How to:

Overview

Getting Started

Alphabetical Index

Professor Jim Breen's EDICT comments

Glossary

Changes

Commands:

File Menu

Edit Menu

Lookup Menu

Help Menu

KiCompWare

Contacting

Other  Programs

Warranty


Changes

Version 0.7 Additions

- Kanji Info Lookup

- Lookup button remembers which lookup method used

- Lookup by JIS number

- Can be configured to save window size and screen placing

- Ontop option (to keep the dictionary Window on top)

Version 0.6

- Added radical lookup for dictionary lookup.

- Lookup by word lookup in hiragana, katakana also.

- Show Lookup by word dialog box is now an option.


Overview

Japanese Dictionary for Windows is a program to read Professor Jim Breen's JDIC dictionary. His dictionary grows by the day. The last count was 40,000 entries. The entries also include person names, place names. In keeping with the spirit of the JDIC program, this program is available for no charge, that is if you download it from some BBS, Compuserve, the Internet or where ever, you do not have to pay any fees to use the program. The dictionary included in the distributed WinJDIC archive has only 1000 entires. The kanji info file is also not included in this archive. This is to keep the size of the archive as small as possible (the current EDICT, index file and info file , uncompressed takes up over  2 megabytes).  The radical index is also from Jim Breen's JDIC distribution.

See Getting WinJDIC from KiCompWare.

Contributions to the dictionary are always welcome. You should try to get the latest dictionary before you duplicate efforts. You may mail your contributions via email to Jim Breen, or send them via floppy to KiCompWare and we will forward them to him. Jim has acknowledged all contributions (good way to get your name in print if you have not done so already, the dictionary files go all over the world.)

You may run two copies or more of  WinJDIC at once to compare entries (good way to compare entries).

Winjdic comes up in a small window on purpose. You may resize it at any time. To see the full entry without resizing the window (how I normally use the program) position the mouse cursor on that entry and press the right mouse button.

See Also

Kanji Info

Lookup Word Dialog Box

Lookup Word via JIS Number

Lookup via Radical Table

Future Enhancements (in no particular order)

- Remember words looked up

- Multiple reference windows.

- Conversion to Kanji

- Change lookup dialog to be more usuable

- Activate the Edit menu: (Copy and JIS Font selection).

- Add the rest of Jim Breen's feature to the program

- Complete the Windows help file.


Getting WinJDIC from KiCompWare

The latest version of WinJDIC will always be on YoZakura (KiCompWare's BBS).  KiCompWare will mail the disk to you for $10 (that includes shipping and handling). And of course KiCompWare will also mail edict dictionary to you as well for $15 (both WinJDIC and Jim Breen's EDICT set for  $20). There is no profit built in to these costs. KiCompWare simply must recover costs. Considering telecommunication costs (and your time), these prices are very reasonable. In addition, when you get it from us, you will get instruction on getting everything installed and running. And you will get the lastest versions as well.

If you like the program (or even if you do not), we would like to hear from you.

Note to distributors:

You may distribute this program on floppy as long as you do not charge more than $10 for the disk and postage and handling. If possible please drop us a line and tell us how you are advertising it. The version you get will undoubtably be an old version.

See Also:

Contacting

Other  Programs


Alphabetical Index

Abbreviation

Changes

Contacting

Dictionary Window

Edit Menu

File Menu

Getting Started

Glossary

Help Menu

Kanji Info

Lookup Menu

Lookup Word Dialog Box

Lookup Word via JIS Number

Lookup via Radical Table

Other  Programs

Overview

Paths Configuration

Professor Jim Breen's EDICT comments

Setup

Skill Level

Warranty

WinJDIC.ini


Getting Started

The basic function of Japanese Dictionary for Windows (WinJDIC), is to lookup words.

Try looking up private. Then lookup priva.

Typical problems:

The program as is, should start up and read the 1000 entry dictionary from the start. (If it doesn't  than contact me.) To reset everything and try again, go to the \windows directory and delete the winjdic.ini file. When the program starts up again it will create the file again, with the correct parameters to access the dictionary and fonts.

Can't Open Dictionary

The dictionary path is wrong. Set the path to the dictionary, using the Setup dialog, then press the Paths button.

No Japanese characters appearing in the Dictionary window.

WinJDIC cannot find the font files to display the Japanese characters. See above to set the correct path.

For now experiment. This section will be expanded time permitting.

See Also

Abbreviation

Kanji Info

Lookup Word Dialog Box

Lookup Word via JIS Number

Lookup via Radical Table


Dictionary Abbreviations
Dictionary Abbreviation

The dictionary uses the following abbreviation in the form

(col), (pl)

Examples:

KANJI [benkyou] /study (vs)/

KANJI [kantan] /simple (an)/

Abbreviation	Meaning

an	an adjectival noun

a-no	nouns which can be used adjectivally with the particle "no"

col	colloquialism

giv	given name (??)

pl	place name

pn	proper noun

pol	polite language (teineigo)

vi	verb intransitive

vt	verb transitive

vs	verb suru


Glossary

Furigana

Hiragana

Intransitive

Kanji

Katakana

Okurigana

Romaji

Transitive

Yomikata


Kanji Info

Various information on Kanji.

Onyomi

Kunyomi

Meaning

JIS Number

Strokes

Bushu

Grade when learned

Nelson Number

Press the OK button to quit the dialog box.


Lookup via JIS Number

Lookup Words using the JIS number. This method is useful primarily if you have a kanji wa pro dictionary and are using it to find a kanji (because all other methods have failed).

JIS Number

The JIS number is the Japanese Industrial Standard number. The JIS character set consists of some 6,877 characters, of which 6,353 are kanji. The rest are broken in to katakana, hiragana, the english alphabet (upper and lower), the ten numbers, various symbols, and Russian and Greek alphabets. The kanji characters are divided into two levels. Level One has 2,965, while Level Two describes the remaining 3,338 characters.

To display the next page use the >> button, to display the previous page use the << button, to jump to a particular page, use the edit box. To lookup words in the dictionary, position the mouse on that kanji and press the left mouse button. To display the Kanji Info Dialog Box on that kanji press the right button.

Options:

Use	To

OK	Close the Dialog Box.

Cancel	Close the Dialog Box.

JIS Page	Change JIS Page in view (use either the edit box, or <<. >>)

Info	Get more information on the kanji character (not implemented yet,)

See Also

Lookup Word Dialog Box

Lookup via Radical Table


Lookup via Radical Table

Lookup words in dictionary using a Nelson's like radical table.

To display all kanji for that radical, position the mouse on that radical and press the left button. All kanji for that radical will be displayed. To lookup words in the dictionary, position the mouse on that kanji and press the left mouse button. To display the Kanji Info Dialog Box on that kanji press the right button.

Options:

Use	To

OK	Close the Dialog Box.

Cancel	Close the Dialog Box.

Radical	Redisplay the Radical Table

Info	Get more information on the kanji character (not implemented yet,)

See Also

Lookup Word Dialog Box

Lookup Word via JIS Number


Lookup Dialog Box
Lookup Word Dialog Box

Options:

Use	To

Japanese	Lookup word Japanese (input in romaji)

English	Lookup word in Englsih

Case Sensitive	Lookup word matching capital letters, and lowercase letters.

Exact Match	Find exact word entered.

All Words	Find all words matching entered word (must also satisfy Case Sensitive and Exact Match constraints).

Proper Nouns	Include proper nouns.

Place Names	Include place names.

See Also

Lookup via Radical Table

Lookup Word via JIS Number


Setup
Skill Level

The possible selections are:

Beginner  WinJDIC will display the yomikata using the romaji character set. This is the English-like character set. Many people just starting out with Japanese use romaji, but they soon advance to hiragana.

Intermediate  WinJDIC will display the yomikata using the hiragana character set.

Advanced  WinJDIC will display the yomikata using  hiragana when it can, otherwise it will display using hiragana.  (At the moment this is the same as Intermediate)

Custom  WinJDIC will display the yomikata using the character set and other options the way you have them configured in each individual window. To do this, first go through WinJDIC and configure each window as you like.  Next open the Skill Level dialog box, select Custom, then press the Save button.

To change the skill level temporarily, select one of the three items (Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced) in the list box and press the OK button. To make a permanent change, press the Save button. To make no changes, press the Cancel button. When you select Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced, and press the OK or the Save button, various skill level options in WinJDIC will be changed automatically. When you select Custom and save, WinJDIC saves the various skill level options the way you have them configured.

See Also

Setup

WinJDIC.ini


Custom Setup
Setup

The Misc. Setup dialog box allows you to select colors for various parts of the WinJDIC program. It also allows you to configure the Japanese font path.

To change the color of a selection, first select the button (click on that button), and next by moving the mouse cursor over the desired color on the upper right area of the dialog box and clicking the mouse button. If you select the same color for a character color as for a background color, that character will be invisible.

Options:

Dictionary Entry Colors

These selections only affect the Dictionary Window areas of the program.

Use	To

Entry	Select the color for Entry word.

Yomikata	Select the color for Yomikata (hiragana, katakana, romaji).

English 	Select the color for English words.

Background 	Select the color for the background.

no-Joyo

   check box	Mark non-Joyo kanji with the color selected with the non-Joyo color button.

non-Joyo

  color button 	Select the color for the non-Joyo kanji.

Buttons

Use	To

Font Path	Display the Font Path dialog box to change or view the current Japanese font path. (If you own a copy of MOKE 2.1, then changing the path to MOKE's \kanji path will allow you to delete the kijis16.fnt file supplied with WinJDIC. This will save about 250k in hard disk space. )

Default	Set all colors to the program default colors.

OK 	Temporarily change to the colors currently selected.

Save	Permanently save changes made to colors or the Font Path.

Cancel	Quit the dialog box without saving any changes.

Save Configuration on exit.	Save all configurations on exit.

Save Window Size	Save Window Size and placement

Display Lookup Dialog Box on Startup	Show the selected lookup dialog box on startup.

Always OnTop	Keep dictionary window the top most screen

Dictionary Display Order

Entry Yomikata Translation

Yomikata Entry Translation

Yomikata Translation

Translation Yomikata

See Also

Skill Level

WinJDIC.ini

Paths Configuration


Font Path
Path Configuration

There are two paths that can refer to paths outside the working directory

Fontpath	JIS font path (where to find the Japanese character fonts).

Dictpath	Dictionary path.

The fontpath refers to the Japanese character font file. The font file is the same file as used by MOKE 2.1. If you have MOKE 2.1,  you can delete the font file "kijis16.fnt" in the WinJDIC distribution and have WinJDIC use the copy in MOKE's \kanji directory. Enter the correct volume and path for the font file in MOKE 2.1

Example:

 	d:\kanji

The dictionary path is the path where the Japanese Dictionary files are. This may differ depending on whether you have MOKE 2.1 and/or JDIC, or where you have choosen to install them. In addition, you must select the name of your Japanese Dictionary. The radical lookup file, and index should be in this directory as well. MOKE has name dictionary and index:

 jtoe.dct

jtoe.jdx

While JDIC calls them:

edict

edict.jdx

To make the changes permanent you must save the configuration in the Misc. Setup dialog box, or have Save Configuration on Exit checked in that dialog.

See Also

Skill Level

WinJDIC.ini


WinJDIC.ini

This file is created when WinJDIC is first run after installation. The information in this file is in text format, but we recommend you use the Skill Level and Misc. Setup dialog boxes available under the File menu.


Dictionary Window

ToolBar Controls

Options:

Use	To

Previous Page

Next Page

Bring up the Lookup Dialog

Right Mouse

Button 	Popup a window with the entry that the mouse is pointing to in vertical form.


Warranty

Japanese Dictionary is provided as is. KiCompWare disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including but not limited to, warranties of merchantability and of fitness of this program for any purpose. KiCompWare assumes no liability for damages direct or consequential; this includes, but is not limited to, the loss of profit or data, which may result from the use of this program.


Technical Support

Technical Support is provided via the KiCompWare BBS (612-779-0886), via KiCompWare's YoZakura BBS, or by postal mail. KiCompWare welcomes your suggestions for improving WinJDIC and its programs as well as bug reports.  When you contact KiCompWare with a problem, please include the following information so we can better assist you.

Your machine type (AT, 286, 386, 486), manufacturer and the configuration of your machine (additional cards, hard disk drive type and size,  keyboard, graphics adapter, etc.)

Version of MS-DOS

Version of Windows.

The contents of your config.sys file and autoexec.bat file.


Other Programs

KiCompWare has created the products,

Japanese Verbs	A verb reference and study program for MS-Windows

MOKE	A Japanese word processor for IBM PCs and compatibles.

Kanji Guess (KG)	A Kanji Learning program that tests you on vocabulary you enter.

MagView 	A  Windows program that displays Japanese manga files.

ReadBook	A Japanese Electronic Book Reader program.

Future Products

Japanese Words	A Japanese vocabulary builder and study program for MS-Windows.

For more information on these products and other miscellaneous  programs/files write or call KiCompWare.

Contacting KiCompWare


Contacting

KiCompWare welcomes your comments on WinJDIC (as well as other programs). We do listen and respond to the needs of our customers.

KiCompWare

P.O. Box 536

Appleton, WI  54912 USA

Phone: 612-773-8621

BBS: 612-779-0886

Compuserve: 101015, 206

 Internet:   101015.206@compuserve.com

Other  Programs


E D I C T

What follows is the Edict.doc file from the JDIC distribution.

Public Domain Japanese/English Dictionary file, coordinated by Jim Breen.

Current Version

The version date and sequence number is included in the dictionary itself under the entry "EDICT". (Actually it is under the JIS-ASCII code "????".  This keeps it as the first entry when it is sorted.)

The   master   copy   of   EDICT   is   in   the   pub/Nihongo   directory   of monu6.cc.monash.edu.au.  There are other copies around,  but they may not be as up-to-date. The easy way to check if the version you have is the latest is from the size/date.

INTRODUCTION

EDICT is an attempt to produce a public domain Japanese/English  Dictionary  in machine-readable form.  It was intended initially for use with MOKE (Mark's Own Kanji Editor) and related software such as JDIC and JREADER, however it has the potential to be used in a large number of packages.

At present it is in the "public domain", however at some stage it may be placed under  Gnu  or  Copyleft  protection,  mainly  to  prevent the work of its many contributors being exploited by commercial software developers.

FORMAT

EDICT is in the "EDICT" format used by MOKE.  It uses EUC coding for  kana  and kanji,  however  this  can  be  converted  to JIS or SJIS by any of the several conversion programs around.  It is a text file with one  entry  per  line.  The format of entries is:

KANJI [KANA] /english_1/english_2/.../

     or

KANA /english_1/.../

The English translations are deliberately brief,  as  the  application  of  the dictionary is expected to be primarily on-line look-ups, etc.

CONTENTS

EDICT consists of:

(a) the basic EDICT distributed with MOKE 2.0.  This  was  compiled  by  MOKE's author, Mark Edwards, with assistance from Spencer Green.  Mark has very kindly released  this  material  to  the public domain as part of EDICTJ.  A number of corrections have been made to the MOKE original, e.g.  spelling mistakes, minor mistranslations,  etc.  It  also  had  a  lot of duplications,  which have been removed.  It contained about 1900 unique entries.  Mark Edwards has also kindly given permission for the vocabulary files developed for KG (Kanji Guess) to  be added to EDICT.

(b)  additions  by  Jim Breen.  I laboriously keyed in a ~2000 entry dictionary used in my first year nihongo course at Swinburne Institute of Technology years ago (I was given permission by the authors to do this).  I then worked  through other vocabulary lists trying to make sure major entries were not omitted. This task is continuing,  although it has slowed down,  and I suspect I will run out of energy eventually.  Apart from that, I have made a large number of additions during normal MOKE and JREADER usage (e.g. using it to read fj.* news.)

(c) additions by others.  Many people have contributed entries and  corrections to EDICT.  I am forever on the lookout for sources of material,  provided it is genuinely available for use in the Public Domain.  I am especially grateful  to Theresa  Martin  who  has  been  supplying a lot of useful material,  plus very perceptive corrections.  Hidekazu Tozaki  has  also  been  a  great  help  with tidying  up  a  lot  of  awry  entries,  and  helping me identify obscure kanji compounds.  A full list is at the  back  of  this  file.  A  massive  group  of contributions came from Sony,  where Rik Smoody had put together a large online dictionary.

At  this  stage  EDICT is approaching the size of a good commercial dictionary, which typically has 20,000+ non-name entries with examples,  etc.  It is bigger than  some  of  the smaller printed dictionaries,  and when used in conjunction with a search-and-display program like JDIC  or  XJDIC  it  provides  a  highly effective on-line dictionary service.

COPYRIGHT?

A  word  on copyright.  Of course most of the material in EDICT came from other published lists.  Dictionary copyright is a difficult  point,  because  clearly the  first  lexicographer  who  published  "inu  means  dog"  could not claim a copyright violation over all subsequent Japanese dictionaries.  What makes each dictionary unique (and copyrightable) is the particular selection of words, the phrasing of the meanings,  the presentation of the contents (a  very  important point  in the case of EDICT),  and the means of publication.  The advice I have received from people who know about these things is that EDICT is just as  much a  new  dictionary as any others on the market.  Readers may see an entry which looks familiar,  and say "Aha!  That comes from the XYZ Jiten!".  They  may  be right,  and they may be wrong.  After all there aren't too many translations of neko.  Let me make one thing quite clear.  NONE of this  dictionary  came  from commercial  machine-readable  dictionaries.  I  have  a case of RSI in my right elbow to prove it.

Please do not contribute  entries  to  EDICT  which  have  come  directly  from copyrightable sources.  It is hard to check these,  and you may be jeopardizing EDICT's PD status.

LEXICOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

EDICT is actually a Japanese->English dictionary,  although the words within it can be selected in either language using appropriate software. (JDIC uses it to provide both E->J and J->E functionality.)

The early stages of EDICT had size limitations due to its usage (MOKE scans  it sequentially and JDXGEN, which is JDIC's index generator, held it in RAM.) This meant  that  examples of usage could not be included,  and inclusion of phrases was very limited.  JDIC/JDXGEN can now handle a much larger dictionary, but the compact format has continued.

No  inflections of verbs or adjectives have been included,  except in idiomatic expressions.  Similarly particles are  handled  as  separate  entries.  Adverbs formed from adjectives (-ku or ni) are generally not included.  Verbs  are,  of course, are in the plain or "dictionary" form.

In working on EDICT,  bearing in mind I want to use it in MOKE and with JDIC, I have had to come up  with  a  solution  to  the  problem  of  adjectival  nouns [keiyoudoushi]  (e.g.  kirei  and kantan), nouns which can be used adjectivally with the particle "no" and verbs formed by adding suru (e.g.  benkyousuru).  If I put entries in edict with the "na" and "suru" included,  MOKE will not find a match  when  they  are  omitted or,  the case of suru,  inflected.  What I have decided to do is to put the basic noun into the dictionary and add "(vs)" where it  can be used to form a verb with suru,  "(a-no)" for common "no" usage,  and "(an)" if it is an adjectival noun. Entries appear as:

KANJI [benkyou] /study (vs)/

KANJI [kantan] /simple (an)/

Where  necessary,  verbs  are marked with "(vi)" or "(vt)" according to whether they are intransitive or transitive.  (Work on this aspect  is  continuing.)  I have  also  used (id) to mark idiomatic expressions,  (col) for colloquialisms, (pol) for teineigo, etc.

Users intending to make submissions to EDICT should follow the following simple rules:

 all verbs in plain form.  The English must begin with "to ....".  Add (vi) or (vt) to the first translation if the nature of the verb is not implicit in  the translation(s).;

add  (an) or (a-no) or (vs) as appropriate to nouns.  Do not put the "na" or "no" particles on the Japanese, or the "suru" auxilary verb.

indicate prefixes and suffixes by "(pref)" and "(suf)" in the  first  English entry, not by using "-" in the kanji or kana.

do not add definite or indefinite articles (e.g.  "a",  "an",  "the", etc) to English nouns unless they are necessary to distinguish the  word  from  another usage type or homonym.

do not guess the kanji.

do not use the "/", "[" or "]" characters except in their separating roles.

if you are keying from a romaji form, make sure you have the correct kana for "too/tou" and "zu", where the Hepburn romaji is often ambiguous.

do  not use kana or kanji in the "English" fields.  Where it is necessary to use a Japanese word, e.g. kanto, use romaji.

USAGE

EDICT can be used as the dictionary within MOKE simply by renaming it  "EDICT", (or  JTOE.DCT  in the new version 2.1 of MOKE.) If you are a MOKE user and have been adding to your EDICT using the "Ask English?"  option,  you  may  wish  to append your additions.  Why not send them to me and I will add them to EDICT?

EDICT can be used,  with acknowledgement,  for any purpose whatever, EXCEPT for inclusion in new commercial products.  Mark Edwards can,  of course,  use it in later MOKE releases.  Stephen Chung may also be using it in his PD "JWP".

CONTRIBUTIONS

-------------

I will be delighted if people send me corrections, suggestions,  and ESPECIALLY additions.  Before ripping in with a lot of suggestions, make sure you have the latest version, as others may have already made the same comments. The preferred format for submissions is a JIS, EUC or Shift-JIS file (uuencoded for safety) containing replacement/new entries.  Separate the  amendments  from the new material: e.g.

**Amendments to EDICT yyyymmmdd Vyy-nnn**

old entry1

new entry1

old entry2

........

**New Entries**

New entry1

New entry2

.........

I prefer not to get a "diff" or "patch" file  as  the  master  EDICT  is  under continuous  revision,  and  may have had quite a few changes since you got your copy.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Mark Edwards, Spencer Green, Alina Skoutarides, Takako Machida, Theresa Martin,

Satoshi Tadokoro,  Stephen  Chung,  Hidekazu  Tozaki,  Clifford  Olling,  David

Cooper, Ken Lunde, Joel Schulman, Hiroto Kagotani, Truett Smith, Mike Rosenlof,

Harold Rowe,  Al Harkom,  Per Hammarlund,  Atsushi Fukumoto, John Crossley, Bob

Kerns, Frank O'Carroll, Rik Smoody, Scott Trent, Curtis Eubanks,  Jamie Packer,

Hitoshi Doi, Thalawyn Silverwood, Makato Shimojima, Bart Mathias,  Koichi Mori,

Steven Sprouse, Jeff Friedl, Yazuru Hiraga, Kurt Stueber, Rafael Santos, Bruce

Casner, Masato Toho, Carolyn Norton, Simon Clippingdale, Shiino Masayoshi,

Susumu Miki, Yushi Kaneda, Masahiko Tachibana, Naoki Shibata, Yuzuru Hiraga,

Yasuaki Nakano, Atsu Yagasaki, Hitoshi Oi, Chizuko Kanazawa, Lars Huttar,

Jonathan Hanna, Yoshimasa Tsuji, Masatsugu Mamimura, Keiichi Nakata, Masako

Nomura, Hiroshi Kamabe, Shi-Wen Peng, Norihiro Okada, Jun-ichi Nakamura,

Yoshiyuki Mizuno, Minoru Terada, Itaru Ichikawa, Toru Matsuda, Katsumi Inoue,

John Finlayson, David Luke, Iain Sinclair, Warwick Hockley, Jamii Corley,

Howard Landman.

Jim Breen

(jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au)

Department of Robotics & Digital Technology

Monash University

Clayton 3168

AUSTRALIA

APPENDIX

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As some of the material in edict has been derived from entries in the dictionaries of the "Wnn" project, it is appropriate to draw attentionto the copyright statement of that project.

/*

 * Copyright Kyoto University Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences

 *                 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991

 * Copyright OMRON Corporation. 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991

 * Copyright ASTEC, Inc. 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991

 *

 * Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software

 * and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,

 * provided that all of the following conditions are satisfied:

 *

 * 1) The above copyright notices appear in all copies

 * 2) Both those copyright notices and this permission notice appear

 *    in supporting documentation

 * 3) The name of "Wnn" isn't changed unless substantial modifications

 *    are made, or

 * 3') Following words followed by the above copyright notices appear

 *    in all supporting documentation of software based on "Wnn":

 *

 *   "This software is based on the original version of Wnn developed by

 *    Kyoto University Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (KURIMS),

 *    OMRON Corporation and ASTEC Inc."

 *

 * 4) The names KURIMS, OMRON and ASTEC not be used in advertising or

 *    publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without

 *    specific, written prior permission

 *

 * KURIMS, OMRON and ASTEC make no representations about the suitability

 * of this software for any purpose.  It is provided "as is" without

 * express or implied warranty.

 *

 * Wnn consortium is one of distributors of the official Wnn source code

 * release.  Wnn consortium also makes no representations about the

 * suitability of this software for any purpose.  It is provided "as is"

 * without express or implied warranty.

 *

 * KURIMS, OMRON, ASTEC AND WNN CONSORTIUM DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH

 * REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF

 * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL KURIMS, OMRON, ASTEC OR

 * WNN CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL

 * DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR

 * PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER

 * TORTUOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR

 * PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

 *

 */


Furigana

The small hiragana that appears above the kanji. It is usually used for students just starting out in Japanese (including the Japanese grade school students). The main problem with using furigana is that students tend to read the furigana and tend not to remember the kanji. Regular Japanese text does not have furigana.


Hiragana

One of the two kanas. Hiragana is used to write the Japanese words and to inflect Japanese verbs, put endings on adjectives, etc. Hiragana is characterized by more rounded and artistic strokes.


Inflection

A grammatical term used to describe the alteration of a word to indicate grammatical features such as tense, number, or person.


Intransitive

A term designating a verb that does not require a direct object. The Japanese word for Intransitive is jidoushi meaning self-moving.


Kanji

The Chinese characters used with the kanas to represent the Japanese Language. There are around 2000 basic kanji with an additional 5000+ other kanji. Some of the kanji were greatly simplified after W.W.II.


Katakana

One of the two kanas. Katakana is usually used to represent foreign words, but not always. It is characterized by straighter strokes.


Okurigana

The hiragana part of a verb or adjective showing inflection. The kana used to conjugate a verb or adjective.


Romaji

The method of writing Japanese with roman characters. It is highly ambiguous due to the number of homonyms in the Japanese language.

Beginners usually prefer to see Japanese this way, while those more advanced prefer to see real Japanese text (with kanji/hiragana/katakana)


Transitive

A term designating a verb that requires a direct object. The Japanese word for Transitive is tadoushi meaning other-moving.


Yomikata

Yomikata is the reading (or the pronunciation) of the kanji character(s). Kanji characters can have more than one yomikata and sometimes several yomikata. Usually a group of two or more kanji will have a single yomikata, but in some cases there is more than one way to read it. Many times if you have never seen the kanji word, you will not know how to pronounce it.


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Japanese Verbs for Windows
Japanese

Verbs

Japanese Verbs for windows, or JVerbs for short, is a reference and study program for the most common Japanese verbs. The reference part shows the most common conjugations (or forms) for each verb. It also features a quick help explanation for each conjugation.

 	For all levels of Japanese expertise! (including beginners)

 	Over 1000 verbs, including 300 verbs that use suru.

 	Show  the verbs and their conjugations in: kanji, hiragana, katakana, or romaji

 	Over 1200 example usage sentences with English translations. Each verb has one or more example sentences.

 	Show example sentences in: kanji, hiragana, katakana, and romaji.

 	On-line explanation of the verb conjugations.

 	Over 50 tutorial verb sets included.

 	Create your own verb sets using any of the supplied verbs!

 	Tutorials

   Review

   Flashcard

   Matching Quiz

   Moving Kanji

   Multiple Choice Quiz

   Review Endings

   Practice Endings

Requirements:

MS Windows 3.1

Contact KiCompWare for avalibility and pricing information.


Japanese

Words for Windows

Japanese Words, or JWords for short, is a Japanese Vocabulary builder, study program. Japanese Words contains over 5000 of the most common Japanese words. Japanese Words helps you remember all 6 relations between the kanji, yomikata, and the translation.  Beginners can start with romaji, progress to hiragana and then kanji when there skills are up to it, using the same program..

  	For all levels of Japanese expertise! (including beginners)

  	Over 5000 words including adjectives, nouns, verbs, particles, many topics: including numbers, food, place names, people names,

  	Show  the words in: kanji, hiragana, katakana, or romaji

  	Tutorials

   Review

   Flashcard

   Matching Quiz

   Kanji Fish

   Kanji Input

   Moving Kanji

   Multiple Choice Quiz

Requirements:

MS Windows 3.1

Contact KiCompWare for avalibility and pricing information.

Scheduled Release:  Early 2nd quarter 1994.


KG 1.0

KG or Kanji Guess is a program for aiding in the study of Japanese. KG can help those who are quite advanced.. While studying Japanese is a time consuming quest, KG tries to help reduce the time needed to learn individual words. Learning Japanese is complicated by having to learn Kanji (the chinese characters), their readings (the way they are pronounced), and the translation of the Japanese to the native language. KG currently has several different types of quizzes to help learn the associations between the kanji word, the reading, and the translation. KG 1.0 works with a mouse and is the recommended way of using KG, but keyboard commands are also available.

The KG quizzes are: kanji guess, flashcard, multiple guess, matching, Kanji Fish, and GojuuOnjun. KG works on IBM PCs or compatible (non

Japanese machines) and requires either a Hercules, EGA, or VGA  graphics monitor.

Contact KiCompWare for pricing information.


MOKE 2.1

MOKE enables anyone with an IBM PC or compatible computer and a graphics monitor to enter Japanese. Japanese is entered via romaji. The kanas or Japanese syllabic characters are entered directly. When you enter a romaji representation (or yomikata) of a kanji, it is looked up in  the kana-to-kanji dictionary. The kana-to-kanji dictionary of some 25,000 line entries (more when subentries are also included) are frequency-ordered for fast searching. The dictionary includes everyday words, personal names, place names, and more.

MOKE features the ability to look up a word when the yomikata of only one of the kanji in the word is known. Because of its on-screen lookup of the yomikata and English translations of Japanese words and its ability to add words to the initially small Japanese-to-English dictionary, MOKE can aid in the study of Japanese or in the translation of Japanese.

The newest feature in MOKE is the Nelson's like radical lookup. It is sure to be a hit with non-Japanese users of MOKE

MOKE has utilities to print on Epson 9 and 24 pin compatible dot matrix printers, HP LaserJet Series (including the DeskJet), and postscript printers.

Requirements:

IBM PC or compatible

IBM-compatible graphics monitor (CGA, EGA, VGA, or 	      Hercules)

Hard disk drive

Basic knowledge of the Japanese language

Contact KiCompWare for avalibility and pricing information.


MagView
MagView 0.6

MagView is a Windows  program for viewing .mag and .mki files. For best results you should have a VGA adapter capable of 256 colors at 640x480 resolution or better. It will work with 16 colors, but windows will only give you dithered colors and not true colors. (.mag and .mki files use a 16 color palette not the same palette as windows provides). It also requires a 286 or better (standard or enhance modes only).

Many of the Japanese BBSs have CG (Color Graphics?) archives with .mag or .mki files. Alternately check NiftyServe under Software Gallery Forum. Most of the files are manga of cute girls drawn by various people. Some are quite good. Some samples are included on the MagView disk.

MagView  is freeware, but not public domain. It may be available on some BBSes or directly from KiCompWare for $10 to cover shipping and handling.

MagView has the capability to save graphics file loaded into memory to either Windows BMP or PCX formats.

For More Information on Japanese Graphics Files See:

 CG Art Collection, Amatoriasha 1991 Nov 25, ISBN4-87042-204-2, 1900 Yen


ReadBook
ReadBook 0.2

Read Book is a program that reads the 8 centimeter Denshi Book (or Electronic Book) CD-ROM disks. Sony introduced the Data Discman in July 1990 in Japan and then in the US (and other countries?) in Fall 1991. Sony also manufacturers a CD-ROM drive that can be hooked up to many Japanese PCs. There are 2 or 3 third party vendors selling software to read the CD-ROM's much like the Data Discman can.

ReadBook 0.2 is a very early release (read there are known minor bugs and could be major bugs in this program) and lacks many features that it  probably should have. ReadBook has been released in this form so we can get an idea of what interest there is in such a program and what kind of features those that are interested in it would like. The audience for this kind of program, while increasing everyday, pretty much relies on whether or not the PC that they are using has a CD-ROM.

ReadBook can read three Electronic Book CD-ROMs. They are:

Kenkyusha's New Collegiate English-Japanese, and Japanese-English,

Iwanami's Kojien,

Sansyusya's English, Japanese, Spanish Electronic

Books. However, all the features of each Electronic Book have not been fully implemented yet. There are many EB titles available in Japan. The access methods very widely, almost requiring separate features, or at least a verification that a  Electronic Book Reader works with an individual title. That is the main reason why ReadBook, at first, works with a limited number of Electronic Books.

Additionally, not all Electronic Book titles are readable by all the CD-ROM drives and Data Discman readers.

If there is sufficient interest, the program will be expanded to work with other such Electronic Book CD-ROMs.

Pricing

Shareware, but no charge until version 1.0

Avaliable on YoZakura and possibly other BBSes, or by mailing

$10 to KiCompWare. (one 360k disk)