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** Kiten **
** a Japanese reference tool **
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Kiten comes ready to use. It will take a bit of time to
start up the first time as it indexes your dictionary files.
Kiten is currently a set of 3 tools:
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Dictionary
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Radical Selector
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Kanji Browser
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Dictionary
Kiten works mainly as a Japanese -> English dictionary, but it
works from English -> Japanese too. This means you can write in
english, hiragana, katakana or kanji to search in the dictionaries.
If you have extra dictionaries in the correct formats, visit the "edict" and
"kanjidic" configuration pages in: Settings -> Configure Kiten -> Dictionaries,
and use the "Add" button.
Then Kiten will search under all of these and display the results separately.
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Radical Selector
This tool helps you to find a kanji by just filtering its radicals.
Only click on the buttons with the desired radicals and Radical Selector
will find all the kanji that contains those radicals, this way you
can find a kanji without knowing anything about its readings or meanings.
Once you find the kanji you can just click on it and Kiten will
automatically search for it in the dictionary*.
*You might need to enable "Automatically search clipboard selections"
on the Settings menu.
Alternatively you can select the kanji, click on "To clipboard" and
paste it on the dictionary.
- Kanji Browser
You can browse all the kanji available in the KANJIDIC dictionary
and be able to search by Grade and Number of strokes.
By clicking on the kanji you can access detailed information such as
stroke order, onyomi and kunyomi readings, meanings, grade and more.
Information about edict and kanjidic is available at the following urls:
EDICT
Summary page: https://www.edrdg.org/jmdict/edict.html
Full documentation: https://www.edrdg.org/wwwjdic/wwwjdicinf.html#dicfil_tag
KANJIDIC
Full documentation: https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project
Jim Breen compiled these fine files, so many thanks to him.
The licenses for these two files can be found in the
file LicenseRef-EDRDG.txt in the "LICENSES" directory.
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Hope Kiten is useful to you!
Jason Katz-Brown jason@katzbrown.com
(Edited to remove outdated information 6-21-06 - Joseph Kerian jkerian@gmail.com)
(Edited to update information 8-21-11 - Daniel E. Moctezuma democtezuma@gmail.com)
(Edited to update information 11-12-19 - Yuri Chornoivan yurchor@ukr.net)