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JAPNS 402: Japanese Dictionaries

 

Contact

Jade Atwill
Title: Asian Studies Librarian


Arts and Humanities Library
W318 Pattee Library
Phone: 814-863-0738
Email: yya2@psu.edu

Course Info

Course Name:
  JAPNS 402: Level Three Japanese B
Semester:
  Spring
Campus:
  University Park (UP)
Instructor:
  Iwami, Osada, Tamura

Print Dictionaries at Penn State

The Kodansha Kanji learner's dictionary /講談社漢英学習字典
PL677.5.K63 2001 (REF-AH, STACK)

Basic Japanese-English dictionary = Kiso Nihongo gakushu jiten / 基礎日本語学習辞典
PL679.B37 1992 (REF-AH). Lists 2800 words with Romaji information, "rubi"and examples. Good for beginners.

Kenkyusha's new Japanese-English dictionary /研究社新和英大辞典
PL679.K4 2003 (REF-AH)

Kenkyusha's new college English-Japanese dictionary / 新英和中辞典
PL679.K42 2003 (AH-Ready REF)

Kodansha's furigana English-Japanese dictionary / ふりがな英和辞典
PL679.Y67 1999 (REF-AH, STACK)

Kodansha's furigana Japanese-English dictionary : the essential dictionary for all students of Japanese. PL679.K63  2001 (STACK)

NTC's new Japanese-English character dictionary = NTC Shin Kan-Ei jiten /
PL679.N727 1993 (REF-AH). (Originally published : New Japanese-English character dictionary: Tokyo: Kenkyusha Ltd., 1990.)

Japanese character dictionary with compound lookup via any Kanji = Kan-Ei jukugo ribāsu jiten /漢英熟語リバ一ス字典. PL677.5.J36 1989 (REF-AH)

Kodansha's basic English-Japanese dictionary = Nichijō Nihongo bairingaru jiten /日常日本語バイリンガル辞典.  PL679.M35 1999 (REF_AH)

Standard Kanji / 当用漢字集.  PL681.C5V5 1963 (STACK)

JapanKnowledge (Penn State Users Only)

JapanKnowledge is a portal to Japanese encyclopedias, dictionaries and databases that provide access to various reference sources in Japan including Encyclopedia Nipponica, Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Progressive Japanese-English/English-Japanese Dictionaries, Gendai Yogo No Kiso Chishiki, Nihon Jinmei Daijiten, recent issues of the Economist Japanese edition, collection of Toyo Bunko series and other visual and sound databases. The Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan is in English, the remaining reference sources are in Japanese.

JapaneseKnowledge User’s Guide Index

Contents in JapanKnowledge

Free Online Dictionaries

Kotobank
コトバンク - 時事問題、ニュースもわかるネット百科事典(朝日新聞社・ECビ)

Wikipedia Kanji radicals list
漢字部首一覧 -- Wikipedia

Rikaichan
りかいちゃん(Requires: Firefox 2.x, 3.x, Thunderbird 2.x, 3.x, Seamonkey 1.x)

tangorin.com Japanese Dictionary
単語林オンライン辞典

Kantango 
かん・たん・ご -- Site for learning Japanese vocabularly represented by a homophone.

POPjisyo
ぽっぷ・じしょ -- Pop-up style dictionary site.

Reading Tutor
リーディング・チュー太 -- The site makes your reading Japanese easier with looked up words next to the text you input.