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This revised edition includes a radical index containing oer 32,000 entries and over 2000 additional readings in the on-kun index. An expanded cross-referencing system includes the character's index number in Morohashi's "Dai Kanwa Jiten", its JIS code number and character listing position.

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"This reigning authority on Japanese character definitions is based on missionary-scholar Nelson's first 1962 edition of The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Essential for all Japanese and East Asian studies collections." --Library Journal
"One of the best and most concise Kanji dictionaries." --Goodreads

The New Nelson JapaneseEnglish Character

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    A Hardback by Andrew N. Nelson, John H. Haig

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      Publisher Tuttle Publishing
      Published 15 September 1997
      ISBN-13 9780804820363
      978-0804820363
      ISBN-10 0804820368
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries Linguistics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This revised edition includes a radical index containing oer 32,000 entries and over 2000 additional readings in the on-kun index. An expanded cross-referencing system includes the character's index number in Morohashi's "Dai Kanwa Jiten", its JIS code number and character listing position.

      Trade Review
      "This reigning authority on Japanese character definitions is based on missionary-scholar Nelson's first 1962 edition of The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary. Essential for all Japanese and East Asian studies collections." --Library Journal
      "One of the best and most concise Kanji dictionaries." --Goodreads

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