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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

referenceOffunction

A cross-reference of a sense in its parts: JMdict writes one as the word, the reading and the number of the sense, apart by "・", each of them optional (神, 神・かみ, 天神・6).

Import it

import { referenceOf } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/entries";

Definition

function referenceOf(text: string): Reference

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
textstring

An item of a sense's seeAlso or antonyms.

Returns

Reference

The word to look up, its reading if it says one, and the sense number if it says one.

Examples

import { referenceOf } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/entries";

console.log(referenceOf("天神・6")); // { written: "天神", reading: undefined, sense: 6 }
console.log(referenceOf("神・かみ・1").reading); // かみ
{ written: '天神', reading: undefined, sense: 6 }
かみ

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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