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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 · Example sentences of a word, with furigana and their credit

Exampletype

An example sentence of a word.

Import it

import type { Example } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/examples";

Definition

type Example = {
    readonly sense: number;
    readonly japanese: string;
    readonly furigana: readonly {
        readonly text: string;
        readonly reading?: string;
    }[];
    readonly english: string;
    readonly level: "N5" | "N4" | "N3" | "N2" | "N1" | null;
    readonly headword: string;
    readonly credit: ExampleCredit;
};

Members

NameTypeDescription
sensenumber

The number of the sense of the word it shows, as Entry.senses[].number has it.

japanesestring

The sentence as Tatoeba has it.

furiganareadonly { readonly text: string; readonly reading?: string; }[]

The sentence in pieces with the kana that read each kanji, which put together are japanese; the whole sentence in one piece when none is known.

englishstring

The English translation.

level"N5" | "N4" | "N3" | "N2" | "N1" | null

The hardest JLPT level among its kanji (N5 for a sentence with none), or null when one of them is on no list.

headwordstring

The word as the sentence has it, which may be conjugated.

creditExampleCredit

Who it is by.

Examples

import type { Example } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/examples";

const one: Example = { sense: 1, japanese: "犬が走る。", furigana: [{ text: "犬", reading: "いぬ" }, { text: "が" }], english: "A dog runs.", level: "N5", headword: "犬", credit: { id: 1, japanese: null, english: null } };
console.log(one.english);
A dog runs.

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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