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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

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Reference · The functions that read the tables

GradeTabletype

The shape of GRADES, from @johnmorrisdotca/jisho/grades.

Import it

import type { GradeTable } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho";

Definition

type GradeTable = {
    readonly source: string;
    readonly release: string;
    readonly grades: Readonly<Partial<Record<string, string>>>;
};

Members

NameTypeDescription
sourcestring

Where it was made from.

releasestring

The date of the KANJIDIC2 it was made from.

gradesReadonly<Partial<Record<string, string>>>

Each grade's kanji, written together.

Examples

import type { GradeTable } from "@johnmorrisdotca/jisho";

const table: GradeTable = { source: "KANJIDIC2", release: "2026-10-31", grades: { "1": "一右" } };
console.log(table.source);
KANJIDIC2

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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