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Japanese Searches

Japanese Search Options:

Note: These options only apply to Japanese searches.

 Romaji - Romaji is the phonetic representation of the Japanese language using English characters.  To enter katakana romaji, capitalize the first letter of the word you are entering, otherwise the default is hiragana.

 Substring Matching - This function determines whether or not substring matching is done.  That is, whether or not multiple (possibly overlapping)  "subwords" will be found in the words you enter.  For example "kai" might match as a subword in the longer word "kaisya".

Try Remove Chars - This menu Options→Input Area→Try Remove Chars lets the user select characters that will be removed from both strings before a match is attempted.  This is useful for matching words with many difficult to hear sounds like the small "tsu" or long "u" sound.  This does make searches take longer, however.

Search Types:

Wildcards/Regular Expressions/Masks - You can use wildcards in your searches to match whole ranges of words.  For example:

kuruma*

will match all words beginning with "kuruma".  The Match Location buttons can also be used to determine how the word you enter is matched.

Regular Search - If you just enter a word, the Match Location buttons at the top determine how the word is matched.  Subwords will also be matched if you have Substring Matching enabled.

Clipboard Search/Whole Sentences - JquickTrans will try to parse the Japanese sentence into separate words.  If you leave spaces it can easily parse the words.  Otherwise it tries detecting the beginning of words by using particles.  A list of words matched in the Input is provided.  With whole sentences, the Location buttons only have an effect on words that can be parsed out.

See also: Searching Overview, Input Methods, English Searches, Kanji Info Searches


English Searches

English Search Overview:

English searches, basically search the dictionary definition and kanji definitions.  Words can be "AND"ed and "OR"ed together.  The default is "OR"ing for words that have no "+" infront of them.

English Search Options:

 - Press this button to enable Case Sensitive searches on both the Kanji Info and Dictionary when English searches are performed.

Search Types:

"OR"ing Words - When no "+" sign is present in front of a word, it is "OR"ed.  That is, if any one word (without a plus in front of it) matches, the word is matched and added.  For example:

cat dog cow

Would match any definition containing "cat" OR "dog" OR "cow".

"AND"ing Words - All words with "+" in front of them must be matched.  If even one word with a "+" is not found in the definition then it does not match.  For example:

+cat +dog +cow

Would match any definition containing "cat" AND "dog" AND "cow".

Strings/Using Quotes - To match strings including spaces use quotes to include the block of text.  For example:

"green tea" "black tea"

Matches "green tea" OR "black tea" as individual strings (including the space between them).

The Match Location buttons are used to determine how the words you enter are matched.

See also: Searching Overview, Input Methods, Japanese Searches, Kanji Info Searches


Searching Overview

Searching Overview:

The word(s)/codes to be searched for are entered in the Input Area.  JquickTrans will attempt to auto-detect, from the type of input, what kind of search to do.

Both the Kanji Info and Japanese Dictionary are searched if both panels are visible.

Search Type Auto-detection:

If Japanese text is entered in the Input Area then that text is searched for in the Dictionary and the Kanji Info.

 If the Romaji button is down the English text is first checked to see if it can be converted to Romaji.  Then a search is performed on the katakana (if the word's first letter is uppercase) or hiragana (no leading caps)  version of the romaji.  As always both, the Kanji Info and Dictionary will be searched if both panels are open.

General Search Options:

 The Match Location buttons effect both Japanese and English searches.  For Japanese searches these buttons can be used in place of masks for simple searching:

Beginning Match = "cat*", matches all words beginning with the string "cat".

Substring Match = "*cat*", matches any words containing the substring "cat".

Ending Match = "*cat", matches all words ending with the string "cat".

Whole Word Match = "cat" matches only words equal to "cat".  (or substrings of "cat" such as "at")

 Set this counter to the maximum number of matches to display.

 Sometimes the difference between SJIS and EUC cannot be autodetected so the default can be selected with this combo box.  This only applies when the autodetection fails.

Options→Input Area→

Auto Select All - Select (highlight) all text after search.  This allows quick searching as you can simply start typing again and the old search will be overwritten without the need to clear anything.

Word Wrap - Wrap words to fit window width.

Match Font - Used when the mouse is moved over the Kanji Info and Dictionary to highlight the location of the word/kanji in the Input Area (if found).

Font - Font for the Input Area.

See also: Input Methods, Japanese Searches, English Searches, Kanji Info Searches


Input Methods

Input Methods:

 Clipboard Link - When the Clipboard Link button is down the Windows clipboard is monitored for input.  When you copy text to the clipboard from any application in Windows, JquickTrans will see the text and automatically do a search on that text.  It can be set to Options→Clipboard Link→Ignore ASCII Text and thus perform only Japanese searches.  When the Clipboard Link is enabled, nothing can be entered in the box as certain Japanese input systems use the clipboard too and would cause an infinite loop.

Cut and Paste - Text can be cut and pasted as normal into the Input Area. CTRL+C = copy, CTRL+X = cut, CTRL+V = paste.

Keyboard Entry - Searches can be typed into the Input Area.  Press ENTER on the line you wish to search on.  Only the line on which ENTER is pressed is searched, only up to the location where ENTER is pressed.

 Use Find button for selected text - If you only want to search on a portion of the text already open in the Input Area, select that text and press the Find button.

Load From File - Optionally input can be loaded from a file.  The file will automatically be converted from EUC and JIS to the Microsoft default SJIS.

See also: Searching Overview, Japanese Searches, English Searches, Kanji Info Searches


Kanji Info Searches

Kanji Info Searches:

English Meaning Searches:

Searches the English meanings of each kanji.  Words can be "AND"ed with "+"s and default to being "OR"ed together.

Note: The Match Location buttons do effect English searches on kanji meanings too.

Japanese Reading Searches:

If katakana or hiragana (or romaji) words are entered, then any kanji with matching onyomi or kunyomi's are added to the Kanji Info matched list.

If kanji is entered in the Input Area, each kanji is looked up.

Radical Lookup:

Select the radicals you wish to search for.  Only kanji containing ALL the selected radicals will be displayed. See: Radical Lookup

Code Search:

Use a "#" sign followed by the data you wish to find.  Be careful if the Case Sensitive button is down and/or one of the Match Location buttons is down as those functions do affect Code searches.  See "kanjidic.doc" for more information on the available codes.

The code is in parenthesis in the column header.  For example:

Jouyou (G)rade Level

The code is "G".  So to add all Jouyou Grade Level 5 kanji you would enter:

#G1

in the Input Area.

See also: Making Kanji Study Lists, Searching Overview, Input Methods, Japanese Searches, English Searches


Kanji Info Overview

Kanji Info Overview:

The Kanji Info panel provides a list of kanji matched in the "kanjidic" data file.  This file is a SJIS version of the one created by Jim Breen.  See: Data Files and "kanjidic.doc" for more complete information on exactly what information is available.

Searching: Kanji Searches

The major columns of information are:

Kanji - The kanji character itself.

Onyomi - The Chinese reading, usually written in katakana, usually used for kanji characters when combined with other kanji to form words.

Kunyomi - The Japanese reading, usually written in hiragana.  Used when the kanji stands alone or as part of a Japanese word.  A "." period is used to separate the kanji part of the reading from the part written in hiragana.  For example, the verb "kiru" would be written with the kanji "ki" and hiragana "ru".  For the full phonetic version we write "ki.ru" (in hiragana) so the user knows that the "ki" part is what the kanji replaces.  The kanji always replaces the characters before the "." (period) separator.

English Meanings - The various meanings which the kanji can have (in English) in various contexts.

(F)requency Of Use - A generic number determined by the frequency with which the kanji appears in print.  Closer to "0" is most common with around "3000" being rare.  If no number is listed, then the kanji is probably not used very often and the hiragana version should be used instead.

(S)troke Count - Number of brush strokes used to write the kanji.

Jouyou (G)rade Level - Grade level of the kanji assigned by Japanese government.

(B)ushu (Radical) Number - Radical number used in Nelson "New Japanese-English Character Dictionary".

(U)nicode Hex Value - The equivalent value in 2 byte hex Unicode, an encoding standard used to encode most the world's languages.

Other: see "kanjidic.doc"

Note: characters in parentheses are used for Kanji Code Searches: Kanji Searches

See also: Sorting, Printing, Interface Elements, Radical Lookup, Kanji Info Options


Overview
JquickTrans Dictionary . Translation . Study

Copyright © 1999 Alexander Schonfeld.  All rights reserved.

JquickTrans combines the functionality of a Japanese⇔English dictionary, a simple Japanese translation program, and a study system into one easy-to-use interface.

To truly learn Japanese, connections must be built between the many layers of meaning inherent in the language.  Japanese words are learned as associations of kanji characters, each of which have their own individual meanings and different meanings in different contexts.  Add on to that the different readings in different contexts and you have a huge number of combinations.  Thus, it is almost impossible to memorize each word individually, rather blocks of similar words with matching subcomponents should be studied.

JquickTrans is optimized to facilitate the building of these connections and provides many ways to do easy parallel lookup of:

kanji ⇔ meaning ⇔ associated words ⇔ readings

Japanese sentence ⇔ component words ⇔ word meanings ⇔ readings ⇔ kanji

These are just a few of the connections that can be made.

For example: you might see a word on the Web and look it up with JquickTrans by simply copying it to the Clipboard.  Then you are provided with a list of component kanji and you can doubleclick on the component kanji to generate a list of words which also contain that kanji.  In this way it is very easy to build connections between words.

By combining the dictionary/translation/study functionality into one interface, JquickTrans can help you build a solid long-term Japanese ability.  The interface is also modular enough to allow disabling of unneeded functionality for more advanced users.

JquickTrans auto-detects the type of input and performs searches based on what you enter, English/Japanese words/whole sentences/romaji etc.  No switching modes or windows needed!

Dictionary Functionality:

Simply enter the word(s) you are looking for, or use the Clipboard Link function to mirror the Windows clipboard.  The "kanjidic" and "edict" files maintained and developed by Jim Breen are used as a database of 60,000+ Japanese words and 5,000+ Kanji characters.  See "kanjidic.doc" and "edict.doc" for more information on these dictionary files and the information they provide.  JquickTrans provides "Altavista" style AND and OR searching for English searches and wildcard/masks for Japanese searches.

Translation Functionality:

When a whole Japanese sentence or paragraph is entered, each word is looked up and a definition provided in the Dictionary list.  All the kanji characters are also looked up simultaneously.

Study Functionality:

A Study List area is provided to store a list of current words.  These lists can be printed and used as study sheets.  Or the built in flashcard function can be used to study them.  Simply drag 'n drop words or kanji characters from the other panels to the Study List to add them.  Many sorting options are available.

No Fear!

Load up your favorite on-line chat program or start browsing the web without fear of strange kanji and words you don't know.  Fast access, from individual kanji meanings to whole sentences.  From kanji⇔hiragana⇔romaji⇔English, get started building the connections which bind Japanese together.

Best of luck in your Japanese studies!

Alex Schonfeld

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Radical Lookup

Radical Lookup:

Select the radicals you wish to search for.  Only kanji containing ALL the selected radicals will be added to the Kanji Info list.  If no kanji are found containing all the radicals, the Kanji Info list is not modified.

Each radical is a common subcomponent of other kanji characters.  Many radicals appear as kanji by themselves and all have some level of meaning, however vague or unrelated to its actual usage.  The radical meanings are displayed in the status bar when the mouse is moved over the radical.  These meanings are stored in "radimi.txt" file and may be edited (see: Data Files).

Note: The currently selected radicals are displayed at the top of the Radical Lookup panel.

 - unselects all currently selected radicals.

 - sets the maximum number of kanji to add to the Kanji Info list.

 - displays the Radical Lookup panel.

See also: Kanji Info Overview, Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, Romaji


Dictionary Overview

Dictionary Overview:

The Dictionary panel provides a list of words matched in the "edict" dictionary data file.  See "edict.doc".  This file is converted to SJIS for JquickTrans.  See also: Data Files

Searching: English Searches or Japanese Searches

Quick Summary:

English Searches: English words are simply matched in the definitions.

Japanese Searches: There are two ways Japanese words are matched.  If there are wildcards or one of the Match Location buttons is depressed, then each Input word is matched against the Japanese words in the "edict" file.   And if there are no wildcards and the Match Whole Words button is down, then words from the "edict" file are searched for in the Input. (useful for entering whole Japanese sentences.

The major columns of information are:

Word - The word as it would appear in standard written form. (Sometimes difficult kanji are used that would not commonly appear, instead some parts would be written in hiragana.)

Reading - The phonetic form of the word (hiragana) if applicable.  Words that are already written phonetically, either all hiragana or all katakana, do not have a Reading value.

Definition - The English definition of the word.

Frequency Average - Average of all the "Frequency of Use" values for each kanji character included in the word.  Not always useful as sometimes uncommon kanji are included.

See "edict.doc" for more information on the dictionary.

See also: Sorting, Printing, Dictionary Options

Abbreviation Codes:

From "edict.doc" comes the list of abbreviated codes used:

        abbr	abbreviation

        adj	adjective

        adv	adverb

        an	adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)

        a-no	nouns which may take the genitive case particle "no"

        arch	archaism

        aux	auxiliary

        aux v	auxiliary verb

        col	colloquialism

        fam	familiar language

        fem	female term or language

        gikun gikun (meaning) reading

        gram	grammatical

        hon	honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language

        hum	humble (kenjougo) language

        I	Type I (godan) verb (currently only added to verbs

where the type is not implicit)

        IV	Type IV (irregular) verb, such as "gozaru".

        id	idiomatic expression

        iK	word containing irregular kanji usage

        ik	word containing irregular kana usage

        io	irregular okurigana usage

        MA	martial arts term

        male	male term or language

        m-sl	manga slang

        neg	negative

        neg v	negative verb

        obs	obsolete term

        obsc	obscure term

        oK	word containing out-dated kanji

        ok	out-dated or obsolete kana usage

        pol	polite (teineigo) language

        pref	prefix

        qv	quod vide (this entry expanded in the EDICTEXT file)

        sl	slang

        suf	suffix

        uK	word usually written using kanji alone

        uk	word usually written using kana alone

        vi	intransitive verb

        vs	noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru

        vt	transitive verb

        vulg	vulgar expression or word

        X	rude or X-rated term (not displayed in educational software)


Dictionary Options

Options→Dictionary→

Sort Mode - Sorting mode.  See: Sorting

Auto Clear - Clear the list on each new search.  Otherwise matches are appended to the current list.

Auto Size Columns - Size columns to fit data, slows down searching.

Font - Font used for the list.  If your IME does not use its own fonts, make sure you select a font which includes kanji.  See: System Requirements

See also: Dictionary Overview


Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, Romaji

Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, Romaji:

Kanji - the characters borrowed from the Chinese 1500+ years ago.  Each kanji has two groups of readings, the Japanese reading "kunyomi" (usually used when the kanji is used by itself or with hiragana characters and consequentially written in the phonetic hiragana) and the Chinese "onyomi" reading (usually used when the kanji is paired with other kanji characters, written in the phonetic katakana).  There are around 2000 standard kanji required to be reasonably literate in Japan.  These "Jouyou Kanji" are separated into grade levels, with "1" being the easiest to the harder level "6".  (the grade levels are fairly arbitrary) See: Kanji Info Searches

Radicals - More complex kanji are made up of smaller ones called radicals.  Radicals can be full-fledged kanji by themselves too.  More complex kanji can be looked up by searching for their component radicals.  See: Radical Lookup

Hiragana - is the Japanese standard phonetic alphabet of around 50 characters.  It is used for native Japanese words and is mixed with kanji to form native Japanese words.

Katakana - A mirror alphabet of hiragana, used for foreign or non-native Japanese words that have been adopted into Japanese.  Also around 50 characters, katakana are of a simpler, more knife edged shape compared with the more rounded hiragana.

Romaji - A phonetic version of the Japanese hiragana/katakana written using the western alphabet.  Each hiragana character is written using a combination of 1-3 letters.  For example: "a", "ku", "kyo".  All Japanese words can be written with romaji, but it tends to look like English and employs spaces to separate words.  Typical Japanese is a mix of hiragana, kanji and katakana.  Commas and periods are also used, but rarely spaces.  Instead, hiragana particles are used to imply different relationships (as subject, object and direction markers, etc).  Sometimes the separation of words is only distinguishable by recognizing the individual words as units.

See also: Searching Overview, Input Methods, Japanese Searches


Encoding, SJIS, JIS, EUC

Encoding Japanese:

There are a number of different encoding schemes for Japanese (and other 2 byte character sets).  English only has an alphabet of 26 letters and a few other symbols required to represent it and thus only requires one byte per character.  Japanese has thousands of characters and requires two bytes per character.  JquickTrans uses "SJIS" or Shift-JIS (the default for MS Windows).  All font systems should support SJIS encoding.  Please enter Japanese in SJIS format. See: System Requirements

EUC (Enhanced Unix Code) is the UNIX standard.

Plain JIS is the standard used for many Internet applications as it encodes Japanese in 7 bit sized characters (numerical values 1-128).

JquickTrans will auto-convert any of these formats when it recieves input from the clipboard or opens the input from a file.

Then there is the all encompassing "Unicode" 2 byte code that encodes most of the world's alphabets.

See also: Searching Overview, Japanese Searches


Wildcards/Regular Expressions/Masks

Wildcards/Regular Expressions/Masks:

A mask/regular expression/wildcard is a way of referring to a range of strings by using one string with special characters embedded in it.  In JquickTrans, these masks use two special characters to represent multiple characters.  The "*" (asterisk) and "?" (question mark) represent more than just their regular values.

The "*" can be used to represent any number of characters or no characters.  For example:

fred*

matches:

fred12341234lksadfjasdflkhtasdf

fred

fredasdf

The "?" on the other hand represents any one character.  For example:

fred?

matches:

fred1

fredA

but does NOT match:

fred12

fred

The "*" and "?" characters can be used as many times as needed and can also be used together.  For example:

fred*??tim

matches "fred" followed by one or more characters and ending with "tim":

fred124321tim

fred12tim

fred123tim

but does not match:

fred1tim

fredtim

fredim

etc.

As you can see "masks" are very important when it comes to specifying multiple strings quickly.  Masks are used to do searches on Japanese words with kanji, hiragana, katakana and can also be used with romaji.

Masks are not used with English searches.

Note: JquickTrans will understand doublewidth (wider) "?" and "*" characters too.

See also: Searching Overview


System Requirements

System Requirements:

Windows95/NT or higher

~16megs of RAM

~10megs of free diskspace

Japanese Font Display System:

If you are running the Japanese version of Windows you do not need a special font display system (called an IME, Input Management Environment).  However, if you are using an English or other non-Japanese version of Windows you need to run a special program, IME, to display the Japanese characters and input Japanese text (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana).  Note: some IMEs do not support the input of Japanese text, in which case you can only enter searches through the Clipboard Link or by entering Romaji (see: Input Methods).

For information on having JquickTrans automatically launch and close the IME as needed, see: Japanese IME/Font System Config

For Windows9x/J systems you may need to change the Fonts JquickTrans uses to display the Japanese characters.  Fonts can be changed under the Options menu settings for the various panels.


Interface Elements

Interface Elements:

 Hide current panel (minimize) or hide all other panels (maximize).  Use the View menu to re-open hidden panels.

Panels can be resized by dragging the splitter bar between them.

The status bar displays information relevant to the location of the mouse and precent complete when searching.  Optionally romaji versions of the Japanese text can be displayed in the status bar (Options→Misc→Show Romaji).

 Press this button to copy all items or selected items to the Study List.  Optionally selected items can be dragged to the Study List.

Right-clicking on the Kanji Info, Dictionary, and Study List provides more selection control options.

 Press this button to clear the current panel.

 This opens information from a file selected by the user.  For the Input Area, this can be a  SJIS, JIS or EUC file that will then be loaded and converted to SJIS.

For the Study List this is a "bfg" file.

 Save the Input Area as SJIS, JIS or EUC.  Or save the currently open Study List without prompting.

Selecting Items in Kanji Info, Dictionary and Study List:

SHIFT+Left-click or SHIFT+Arrow key - selects a range of items.

CTRL+Left-click - to select one more item in addition to currently selected items.

Left-click - to select one item and unselect all others.

Right-click - to open the pop-up selection options menu.

See also: Printing Overview, Sorting Overview, Japanese IME/Font System Config


Study List Overview

Study List Overview:

The Study List is a place to store words/kanji you have looked up and would like to learn over time.  The easiest way to add words to your Study List is to simply drag and drop new words on the Study List from the Kanji Info and Dictionary lists.

The major columns of information are:

Word/Kanji - The word as it would appear in standard written form or a single kanji character. (Sometimes difficult kanji are used in certain words, instead some parts of the word would be written in hiragana.)

Reading - The phonetic form of the word (hiragana) if applicable.  Words that are already written phonetically, either all hiragana or all katakana, do not have a Reading value. For kanji characters this is a combination of the onyomi and kunyomi readings.

Definition - The English definition of the word, or kanji meanings.

Frequency Average - Average of all the "Frequency of Use" values for each kanji character included in the word.  Not always useful as sometimes uncommon kanji are included.  For a single kanji character this is, of course, not an average.

Date Added - The date and time the item was added to the list.  Useful for sorting most recently added last and studying.

Add words to the Study List in a number of ways:

Right-click on the selected items the Kanji Info or Dictionary window.

 Click this Add to Study List button.

Drag and drop items from the Kanji Info or Dictionary windows to the Study List.

Automatically add items double-clicked in the Kanji Info or Dictionary windows (to do cross references), see Options→Misc→Add to Study List on Double-click .

To edit study list items: Right-click on the item to edit and select "Edit..."

Delete words by:

Right-click and select "Delete Selected".

Press the Delete key after selecting words.

Studying Tips:

There are pre-made study list files to help you with studying various aspects of Japanese:

Katakana.bfg - the phonetic Katakana characters

Hiragana.bfg - the phonetic Hiragana characters

Printed study lists can also be folded along the columns and used as study sheets to aid in memorization.

See also: Study Options (for flashcards) and Making Kanji Study Lists (for generating lists based on grade levels), Sorting, Printing, Interface Elements


Study Options

Options→Study List→

 CTRL+B - The flashcard function provides an easy way to cycle through your Study List.

Random Flashcard Order - To randomize the order flashcards are displayed, check this menu item.  Otherwise the cards will be displayed in the current list order, however it is sorted.  You may want to sort oldest first etc.

Flash Card Font - The font used to display the card information.  You might want to make this font larger.

Auto Sort - Keep the list sorted (without pushing column headers, last column header pushed is the property sorted on)

Auto Save - Save the current Study List automatically on exit.  Prompts if no file name is specified.

Auto Open - Automatically load the previously loaded list when JquickTrans is executed.

Auto Size Columns - Size columns to fit data.

Font - Font used for the list.  If your IME does not use its own fonts, make sure you select a font which includes kanji.  See: System Requirements

See also: Study List Overview


Printing Overview

Printing Overview:

File→

 The Print function on the File Menu corresponds to the currently active panel, Dictionary, Kanji Info or Study List (defaults to Study List).

Print Options - Setup the the header, footer, fonts, borders and other stylistic controls.

Page Setup - Standard windows "Page Setup", margins, orientation and paper size.

The Print Preview function also corresponds to the currently active panel (or the panel you clicked on last).


Sorting Overview

Sorting Overview:

 - Sort by position in Input Area text.

 - Sort by the currently selected column in the list view.  Each column has an arrow indicating the current sort direction after the column header is clicked.

 - Sort by word length.


Study List File Format

Study List File Format:

A Study List file is simply a text file containing the information presented in the Study List panel.  The file format is SJIS for the Japanese and ASCII for English.

The file extension is: ".bfg"

Each column of data is separated by the "@" symbol.  For example, one line (entry) in the file would look like:

---

�_”é@‚µ‚ñ‚Ò@mystery@640@4/25/99 8:32:48 AM

---

First comes the kanji reading or default written form in Japanese.

Then the phonetic written form. (if different from the standard written form)

Then the English meaning.

Then frequency average of kanji in the word.

Then the date added. (available for sorting purposes)

See also: Study List Overview


Making Kanji Study Lists

Making Kanji Study Lists:

1. First make sure [image] the Case Sensitive button is down.

2. Make sure the Location Match button [image] is set to beginning match.

3. In the Input Area enter the search string:

#G1

This will add all Jouyou Level "1" kanji.

Entering:

#G2

in the Input Area will add all Level "2" kanji etc.  Searches can be "OR"ed together, so entering:

#G2 #G3

Would add all Jouyou (G)rade Level "2" and Level "3" kanji.

See also: Study List Overview


Data Files

The Main Data Files:

kanjidic - A kanji dictionary database of kanji info, maintained by Jim Breen.  This file was initially in EUC code, but is used in SJIS format by JquickTrans.  To update this file yourself you must convert the EUC version you download to SJIS using a tool like "jconv" freely available from Ken Lunde (jconv).

edict - A Japanese dictionary text file also maintained by Jim Breen.  This file is also EUC code that needs to be converted to SJIS for use with JquickTrans. (if you want to update the file yourself)

Note: Jim Breen's Japanese Page and ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/japanese/monash/ have these files.  See "kanjidic.doc" and "edict.doc" for more information on the content and format.

kanjidic.ndx - Index file into "kanjidic" to speed up access.  Generated by JquickTrans when run for the first time.

edict.ndx - Index file into "edict" to speed up access.  Generated by JquickTrans when run for the first time.

radimi.txt - Radical meanings for the Radical Lookup function, displayed in status bar. (created by Michael Raine)

radkanji.dat - Binary file containing the characters associated with each radical. (created by Michael Raine)


Kanji Info Options

Options→Kanji Info→

Add All Kanji  - adds all kanji in "kanjidic" file.  Can be slow on older machines.

 - displays the Radical Lookup panel

.

Sort Mode - sorting mode.  See: Sorting

Auto Clear - clear the list on each new search.  Otherwise matches are appended to the current list.

Auto Size Columns - size columns to fit data, slows down searching.

Font - font used for the list.  If your IME does not use its own fonts, make sure you select a font which includes kanji.  See: System Requirements

See also: Kanji Info Overview


Japanese IME/Font System Config

Japanese IME/Font System:

JquickTrans supports automatically launching and closing a Japanese IME (Input Management Environment).  On an English/Non-Japanese version of Win9x an IME (another software program) is required to display Japanese fonts and enter Japanese Input.  See also: System Requirements

Options→Japanese Font System→

Setup...

Select IME to Run on Startup - Path to the executable that runs the Japanese font display/input system.

Auto Close on Exit - Close the IME when JquickTrans is closed.

Window Name - Specify the names of the windows that JquickTrans should close.  You can press "CTRL+ALT+DELETE" once to pop-up a list of all the running programs, even if they do not show up on the taskbar.  Enter substrings separated by commas for multiple programs.  If any of the substrings are matched in the window names then the program will be closed.

Run Now - Runs the specified IME.


Copyrights
JquickTrans and all components except data files ©Copyright Alexander Schonfeld, 1999.  All rights reserved.

No part of this manual or software may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval systems, without the express written consent of Alexander Schonfeld.

This manual could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors.  Changes are periodically made to the information herein; these changes will be incorporated in new editions of the manual.  Alexander Schonfeld may make improvements and/or changes in the product(s) described in this manual at any time.

"JquickTrans" is ©Copyright Alexander Schonfeld, 1999.  All rights reserved.

Microsoft Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Kanji Information Database

File Names:	KANJIDIC

(Part of the KANJIDIC package)

This license statement and copyright notice applies to the KANJIDIC package, the associated documentation files, and any data files which are derived from them.

COPYING AND DISTRIBUTION

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of these files provided this copyright notice and permission notice is distributed with all copies. Any distribution of the files must take place without a financial return, except a charge to cover the cost of the distribution medium.

Permission is granted to make and distribute extracts or subsets of the KANJIDIC package under the same conditions applying to verbatim copies.

Permission is granted to translate the English elements of the KANJIDIC package into other languages, and to make and distribute copies of those translations under the same conditions applying to verbatim copies.

USAGE

These files may be freely used by individuals and small groups for reference and research purposes, and may be accessed by software belonging to, or operated by, such individuals and small groups.

The files, extracts from the files, and translations of the files must not be sold as part of any commercial software package, nor must they be incorporated in any published dictionary or other printed document without the specific permission of the copyright holders.

OTHER RELATED COPYRIGHTS ©

Copyright © over the documents covered by this statement is held by James William BREEN, subject to the exceptions outlined below.

The following people have granted permission for material for which they hold copyright © to be included in the files, and distributed under the above conditions, while retaining their copyright over that material:

Jack HALPERN: The SKIP codes and Frequency codes in the KANJIDIC package.

With regard to the SKIP and Frequency codes, Mr Halpern stated as follows:

"The commercial utilization of the frequency numbers is prohibited without written permission from Jack Halpern. Use by individuals and small groups for reference and research purposes is permitted, on condition that acknowledgement of the source and this notice are included."

"SKIP is protected by copyright, copyleft and patent laws. The commercial utilization of SKIP in any form is strictly forbidden without the written permission of Jack Halpern, the copyright holder."

Christian WITTERN: The PinYin information in the KANJIDIC file.

Urs APP: The Four Corner codes and the Morohashi information in the KANJIDIC package.

Radical Lookup Method

Copyright ©: Derc Yamasaki

File Names:	RADKANJI.DAT

Copyright ©: Michael Raine

JWP COMMENT.

"Special thanks to Michael Raine for telling me about the idea and donating the kanji files necessary to implement the new lookup method.  He requests that the data files not be re-distributed for use in any commercial product without his express written permission."


FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q : I'm having problems using JquickTrans with Internet Explorer...

A : "View Page Source" and cut and paste from there.  Future versions of JquickTrans will interface with IE better and support Unicode etc.

A2 : Use Netscape.

To be continued...