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Jisho辞書

The words of JMdict looked up by reading, written form, English meaning, a kanji in them or romaji, in small pieces fetched as needed, safe by default or unfiltered with every sense's marks, and the school grades, JLPT levels, readings, meanings and look-alike pairs of 2,999 kanji, each table an entry point of its own.

Jisho is the Japanese word 辞書 for a dictionary: this one holds Japanese words and kanji. About the name

Contents

Reference · The whole entry of a word: every sense, and everything JMdict says of it

Referencetype

A cross-reference in its parts, from referenceOf.

Import it

import type { Reference } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/entries";

Definition

type Reference = {
    readonly written: string;
    readonly reading: string | undefined;
    readonly sense: number | undefined;
};

Members

NameTypeDescription
writtenstring

The word to look up.

readingstring | undefined

Its reading, if the reference says one.

sensenumber | undefined

The number of the sense, counting from 1, if the reference says one.

Examples

import type { Reference } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/entries";

const reference: Reference = { written: "神", reading: undefined, sense: 1 };
console.log(reference.written);
神

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/jisho 2.11.0.