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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 · Readings, meanings, strokes and ranks

KANJIconstant

2999 kanji: every one with a school grade in KANJIDIC2, which holds every one on the JLPT lists. Written by scripts/build-data.mjs from KANJIDIC2 of 2026-10-31 and data-sources/jlpt/. Never edited by hand. Each row: kanji, strokes, grade, JLPT level or "", newspaper frequency rank or 0, on readings, kun readings, English meanings, French meanings.

KANJIDIC2 is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG), used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence and the Group's conditions: https://www.edrdg.org/edrdg/licence.html. This table is derived from it and is under the same licence. The JLPT levels are Jonathan Waller's lists, from his JLPT Resources at http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/, under Creative Commons "BY" (http://www.tanos.co.uk/jlpt/sharing/). The JLPT itself has published no list of kanji since 2010: these are one person's.

Import it

import { KANJI } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/kanji";

Definition

const KANJI: PackedKanji

Members

NameTypeDescription
sourcestring

Where it was made from.

releasestring

The date of the KANJIDIC2 it was made from.

rowsreadonly (readonly [string, number, number, string, number, readonly string[], readonly string[], readonly string[], readonly string[]])[]

Kanji, strokes, grade, level or "", frequency or 0, on readings, kun readings, English meanings, French meanings.

Examples

import { KANJI } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho/kanji";

console.log(Object.keys(KANJI));
[ 'source', 'release', 'rows' ]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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