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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

WordsManifesttype

Where the pieces of the dictionary are.

Import it

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

Definition

type WordsManifest = {
    readonly source: string;
    readonly release: string;
    readonly rowCount: number;
    readonly readings: PieceSet;
    readonly forms: PieceSet;
};

Members

NameTypeDescription
sourcestring
releasestring
rowCountnumber

How many rows the pieces hold.

readingsPieceSet

The rows, cut by reading folded to hiragana.

formsPieceSet

An index from each written form to its readings.

Examples

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

const empty: WordsManifest["readings"] = { starts: [""], load: [async () => ({ rows: [] })] };
console.log(empty.starts);
[ '' ]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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