Reading the different variants with which you can find the Japanese language or Chinese is very complex for those of us who don't know it. And since for those of us who work with technological information, Japanese sites are often a mandatory stop – and also to help the poverty of translation software in the presence of this ideographic expression – we found a complete kanji dictionary, the most complete we have seen so far, and we want to share it with you.
I hadn't thought about it, but there was a moment when I knew Japanese. It was thanks to video games, such as Captain Tsubasa (Super Champions), where due to lack of translation I had to get used to the hiragana and katakana in which the moves you wanted the player to perform appeared. Learning by repetition, of course, but it still counts.
The case of kanji is another matter, since its complexity transcends memorization in terms of the conceptual nature of its meaning and the obvious complexity of its writing. This will be known by manga and anime fans, on whose pages it is common to find a legend that we would like to recognize without the mediating and often distorting translation of the true meaning. Now you can do it without spending hours searching with this free kanji dictionary.
The name of the application is Tagaini Jisho, it's free, open source, and works as a kanji dictionary and also Japanese in general (hiragana and katana). In addition to having a system with coloring of different types of represented ideas, the platform allows you to search the meaning of kanjis (or how to write an idea with a kanji) with a vast amount of filters and criteria that will make the identification of sinograms a much more enjoyable task for those who find the language and its calligraphic representation strange.
As you know, kanjis can be pronounced in various ways, so the Tagaini Jisho application thought about this and provided comprehension help taking into account whether the kanji is used in the context of a speech, as part of everyday dialect, or its position in the sentence, among others. According to what we read, this type of nomenclature and differences are based on the adaptation of Chinese ideograms to the Japanese language.
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Also, the application is oriented towards learning, so you can set a goal of one or two kanjis per day and start learning to read and use them without the help of the dictionary. Tagaini Jisho has a database of 6000 kanjis, so you have plenty of time to learn.
The pedagogical system of Tagaini Jisho also allows you to take notes and view information in different ways about what you have learned so far, and since many kanjis used in Japan maintain their original meaning, with this kanji dictionary you will feel that you are learning two languages instead of one. Also, you will be able to know for sure if the tattoo that a friend got really says what they want.
The program is cross-platform, being available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. If you want it in its Windows flavor, you will need to enable Microsoft IME and have at least one Japanese font. Hope it helps!
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