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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

FuriganaParttype

One piece of a written word: its text, and, for a piece of kanji, the kana that read it. A piece with no reading is kana that needs none.

Import it

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

Also exported from: @johnmorrisdotca/jisho/words

Definition

type FuriganaPart = {
    readonly text: string;
    readonly reading?: string;
};

Members

NameTypeDescription
textstring

The text of the piece, as written.

reading (optional)string | undefined

The hiragana that read it, when the piece is kanji.

Examples

import type { FuriganaPart } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/words";

const part: FuriganaPart = { text: "食", reading: "た" };
console.log(part.reading);
た

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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