The Kodansha Kanji Dictionary

I'm very pleased with this purchase. It was a bit expensive but it's worth every penny. The amount of detail and number of characters covered is amazing. It is a serious must have reference.

This is definitely the kanji dictionary every japanese learner should get. It will help not only with the joyo kanji but also with an additional 1900 other kanji and will increase your vocabulary a lot. When I first read the cover it said 5349 entries but then I found it had only 4408 kanji entries. I thought I had been cheated but very soon I found out that the difference in entries was thanks to the cross-reference kanji's which help you throughout the book to find their correct place in the SKIP system Loving this book. Definitely.

This massive tome contains every kanji that you would normally find in Japanese literature. It also contains a lookup system for identifying kanji by the radicals, which allows you to very quickly identify any kanji that you encounter while reading. This dictionary would be an asset to anyone who who wants to be able to read Japanese texts, whether they're an advanced level student, an intermediate level student, a hobbyist, or a professional. There are many online dictionaries available for Japanese-to-English translation, but in many cases I find this more useful.

I used to own the paper version of this dictionary, years ago. I had forgotten all about it until I recently re discovered the dictionary on kindle. As soon as I had downloaded the free sample, I instantly recognised my favourite old kanji dictionary from the unique SKIP pattern/stroke count system that allows one to locate a character diectly in the dictionary, without having refer to a seperate index. After a very quick bit of testing, to make sure that the e-book worked OK on my Android device - ( not always the case), it didn't take me very long at all to make the decission to fork out for the full dictionary. Well worth every penny. I feel like I have been re united with an old friend!

Perfect, thank you

I bought this dictionary since I have the physical copy and wanted some continuity in the kindle app. However this version does not appear to be able to be used as word look up in kindle app. Otherwise it is a great resource and well worth it.

This book is awesome, it's got all the kanji you need to read and write today's Japanese; it shows stroke order for every character from the Joyo list (2,136 updated) except for the name kanji wich have got no stroke order. If that isn't enough the entries have Chinese reading for simplified hanzi (useful for those of us who study Chinese too can compare both languages inmediately!) and you must remember Chinese created the characters and Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese just imported them, well if someday I met Jack Halpern I'd shake his hand for sure because he simplified everything to us.

I dont normally write product reviews but I had to with this book. It is a massive dictionary and it looks stunning on my book shelf. It is worth every penny and it has so much kanji so if you are on a budget and you can only buy 1 kanji dictionary definitely pick this because you won't regret it.