The Modern Reader's Japanese - English Character Dictionary

Nelson, Andrew Nathaniel

ISBN 10: 0804804087 / ISBN 13: 9780804804080

Published by Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, Va., 1977

About this Item

HEAVY. 1109pp, appendices, endpaper charts. Or maroon cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket, small bookseller label on front pastedown., very light toning to page edges. Lists about 5000 selected characters with their 10000 odd current readings and almost 70000 compounds in current use, all with concise English definitions. Includes 14 appendices. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 011022

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Modern Reader's Japanese - English Character Dictionary
• Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle, Rutland, Va.
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804804087
• ISBN 13: 9780804804080
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: Second Revised Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Language, Dictionaries, Trivia, Law

About this title

Synopsis

Both old and new forms of characters are presented and arranged under the traditional radical system.

Review

"Students of the Japanese language will particularly welcome...this dictionary, for it provides them with an up-to–date and authoritative guide to modern Japanese characters."--Curtis W. Stucki, Library Journal "As a replacement for the long serviceable Rose-Innes Beginner's Dictionary of Chinese-Japanese Characters, this new compilation offers many advantages: a lager number of characters...more readings still in current use...and a greatly expanded listing of compounds...As an example of book design, little more could be asked of this volume." --Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies By far the most interesting dictionary I have ever read. No, really! The feeling of power you get when you've finally learned how to look up characters is incredible. Think about it. They can't be in alphabetical order, right? Just flipping through the dictionary, looking at random entries, drives home how different Japanese culture is from Western. You're constantly discovering words that you hadn't even suspected might be useful." -Goodreads "As a replacement for the long serviceable Rose Innes Beginner's Dictionary of Chinese Japanese Characters, this new compilation offers many advantages: a lager number of characters more readings still in current use and a greatly expanded listing of compounds As an example of book design, little more could be asked of this volume." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies"