The Original Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary
| Author/creator | Nelson, Andrew N Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | North Clarendon : Tuttle Publishing New York : Simon & Schuster, Incorporated [Distributor] |
| Description | 1112 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation "The Japanese government may someday recognize as it ought toTuttle's contribution to creating an intelligent interest in Japan among the Englishreading public, and deepening understanding of Japanese overseas."Hokubei Mainichi (San Francisco)Awarded the 1969 Prize for the Society of the Promotion of International Cultural Relations, this is the most comprehensive Japanese dictionary of its kind. Containing JapaneseEnglish and EnglishJapanese sections, it is an essential reference tool for serious students studying the Japanese language or for businesspeople and tourists wishing to learn Japanese before they travel.Special features include:Lists over 5,000 carefully selected characters with their 10,000+ current readings and almost 70,000 compounds in current use, al with concise English definitions.Scientifically arranged by a logical extension of the traditional radical system so as to make the finding of a given character almost foolproof, saving hours of time.Makes provision for quickly finding characters either in their traditional or their modern and often greatly altered forms, thus serving for both prewar and postwar literature.Includes 14 valuable appendices giving (1) instructions for the most efficient use of the dictionary, (2) discussions of the written language in general and particularly of its recent and farreaching official modifications, and (3) much helpful information that readers in East Asian fields have heretofore had to search for in many different places.Contains anonkun index which makes it not only a reader's dictionary but also awriter's dictionary. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780804819657 |
| ISBN | 0804819653 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780804819657 |
| Stock number | 00026652 |
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