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Chapter 11: Dictionaries and Dictionary Software

It goes without saying that some of these references are more useful than others. For

example, a Japanese code table from Hewlett-Packard is identical to a JIS X 0208-1983

code table, except that it lists the Shi-JIS, ISO-2022-JP, and Row-Cell values for each

character—this doesn’t help you much in nding obscure characters. e set of Japanese

character dictionaries published by NEC, on the other hand, are superb, and allow users

to search by radical, reading, total number of strokes, and encoding. e point of the

paragraph is that you should examine such references before you buy, or else get a recom-

mendation from someone whose opinion you trust.

CJKV Ideograph Dictionaries

What can be considered the world’s very rst—and still only—CJKV character dictionary,

designed for computer users and soware developers, was published by Sanseido in 2000,

and is entitled Sanseido’s Unicode Kanji Information Dictionary (

 yunikōdo kanji jōhō jiten). Due to the year of its publication, and the work that was nec-

essary to lead up to it, its coverage is the URO, meaning the rst block 20,902 ideographs,

the main entries of which provide a variety of character codes, readings, cross-references

to related characters, classication symbols, indexing radical, stroke count, and so on.

CJK Unied Ideographs Extension A is co ...