• PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    These dictionaries are a godsend for figuring out what a given kanji means, and how to pronounce it.

    There are around 40 000 kanji characters. Most have various meanings depending on context. And depending on the context, a character is spoken in entirety different ways.

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      1 day ago

      Phone dictionaries have been fine for kanji recognition and searching radicals for over 10 years.

      I learnt Japanese in schooling from 2002 to 2011 and I was using my phone in the last two years of that.