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The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary
Authors John H. Haig, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Publisher Tuttle
CategoryKanji to English
ISBN0804820368 [COPAC, Webcatplus, Wikipedia]

Review by Charles E. Tuttle catalogue

A complete update of a long-time, award-winning classic, this is a major revision of Andrew N. Nelson's best-selling Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary, first published by the Charles E. Tuttle Company in 1962. With the addition of over 1,200 ... read more

Review by Mark Pearce

Things I Like:

1. Comprehensiveness. I have not come across a character that I have been unable to find in this dictionary. It includes a vast number of compound words with each character along with a comprehensive definition. This dictionary is thorough.

2. Universal Radical Index ( ... read more


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