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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 · Look words up by reading, written form, English meaning, kanji or romaji

PackedPatchtype

What to do to the common words that safe mode keeps to have every common word as JMdict has it: each edit is a position, then "r" to replace the row there or "i" to insert one before it, then the row, apart by tabs.

Import it

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

Definition

type PackedPatch = {
    readonly source: string;
    readonly release: string;
    readonly edits: readonly string[];
};

Members

NameTypeDescription
sourcestring
releasestring
editsreadonly string[]

Examples

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

const patch: PackedPatch = { source: "JMdict", release: "2026-11-02", edits: ["0\ti\tあ\tC\t¦ah"] };
console.log(patch.edits.length);
1

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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