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Kodansha's Furigana Dictionary: Japanese-English/English-Japanese (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 1285 pages
  • Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd (Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 4770024800
  • ISBN-13: 978-4770024800
  • Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 13.7 x 5.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 49,383 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This combined dictionary contains 30,000 entries covering commonly used English and Japanese words and expressions. Guidance is offered on grammar, meaning, orthography, pronunciation and punctuation. It also includes furigana transcription over each kanji and example sentences, idoms and phrases.

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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great if you can read in Japanese, especially for students, 2 May 2001
I am an English university student studying Japanese, and I find this a really thorough dictionary which I am very happy with. It has lots of kanji and gives example sentences to help out if you don't know the context of the word. The sample sentences are in plain form though, so beware of using them directly in an essay which should be in polite form. If you are English speaking and cannot read Japanese (i.e. you are only learning to speak it) then don't get it, as all Japanese words are in kana.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but..., 6 Mar 2004
This is big! I expected it to be big, but its bigger than that :)
Not very portable at all, this is really a leave at home book.
Size:50mm x 140mm x 190mm Weight: 1.1Kg

It contains just what you think it does. Its invaluable as “the ultimate” dictionary for someone studying Japanese. The only close alternative to this, might be to buy the J->E and E->J dictionaries separately. Be careful of the smaller dictionaries, as the kanji can be unreadable. This has nice big text, and you can see the kanji pretty well. Maybe even bigger would have been nice, but then the English would have looked like a childrens book :)

The only problem I have found so far is that there are mistakes :\
My Japanese teacher took a look through it and found mistakes in the kanji right away…

That said, there really is no alternative. If you want something better than your pocket dictionary, this is the one to buy

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Great dictionary - with a magnifying glass, 4 Nov 2009
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Having already got the Oxford beginners japanese dictionary, I needed one with a few more words and phrases. This uses furigana (small hiragana above the kanji) rather than repeating the japanenes in hiragana and then kanji. Certainly there are lots of new enries and many more phrases, but I tend to have to use a magnifying glass to read the kanji or hiragana, the former because they are complex and the latter because they are now small (to fit above the kanji). Ok, I am now 52 and need reading glasses anyway - but I tend to rely on the Oxford first simply because of this. The book uses no colour, which I liked about the Oxford. Its chunky, not a really large book, only 14x19x5 cm, certainly not pcket size. There is a small appendix, but very sketchy indeed. Unlike the Oxford, it only shows the "dictionary form" of the verbs, i.e. if soemthing is in the "~mas" or "~te" form, it will not redirect you to the dictionary form.

All in all it is a good dictionary, not quite for the beginner, and does not try to solve the "tiny character" problem, indeed it makes it worse, if you rely on hiragana.
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