Japanese 497A: Readings in Modern Japanese I
Online Dictionaries
- JWPce - program not onlineExcellent tool for studying and looking up kanji.
- TakobotoTakoboto is a Japanese/English dictionary and Japanese language learning tool. It searches words written in both Japanese or English using kanji, kana, romaji or latin alphabets. Example sentences and kanji information are provided for each word. Lists are arranged by JLPT N level.
- Kanji Jiten Net 漢字辞典ネットMany choices - search by names of radicals, stroke counts, readings, browse by grade level or JIS codes.
- Kanji AliveKanji alive is a free, web-based tool to help beginning and intermediate level Japanese language learners to read and write kanji. It is cross-platform and will run in any browser that supports Adobe Flash and Apple Quicktime
Study on Your Own
Print Dictionaries
Kodansha Learner's DictionaryCall Number: UM East Asian Reference ; PL677.5 .K63 2001ISBN: 4770028555
Recommended titles in order of difficulty.
The Kanji DictionaryCall Number: UM East Asian Reference ; PL677.5 .S625 1996ISBN: 0804820589
The New Nelson Japanese-English Character DictionaryCall Number: UM East Asian Reference ; PL677.5 .N44 1997ISBN: 0804820368- Dai Kan-Wa jiten byCall Number: UM East Asian Reference ; PL1425 .M6 1966This is the mother of all kanji dictionaries. Essential for people working on classical Japanese and obscure pre-modern texts.
