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The Dutch translator Hori Tatsunosuke (堀達之助), who interpreted for Commodore Perry, compiled the first true English–Japanese dictionary: A Pocket Dictionary of the English and Japanese Language (英和対訳袖珍辞書, Yosho-Shirabedokoro, 1862). It was based upon English-Dutch and Dutch-Japanese bilingual dictionaries, and contained ...
Peter Adriaan van de Stadt's Japanese– Dutch dictionary, 33,800 entries. Nihon Kingendaishi Jiten. 1978. dictionary of modern Japanese history from 1848 to 1975, 12,000 entries. Nihon Kokugo Daijiten. 1972–1976, 2000–2002. largest Japanese language dictionary, 20-volume and 14-volume editions, 503,000 entries.
Daijisen. The Daijisen (大辞泉, "Great fountain of knowledge (wisdom)/source of words") is a general-purpose Japanese dictionary published by Shogakukan in 1995 and 1998. It was designed as an "all-in-one" dictionary for native speakers of Japanese, especially high school and university students.
Inc. Yahoo! Japan Corporation (1996–2023) Yahoo! Japan (ヤフー, Yafū) is a Japanese web portal. It was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. [ 1] According to The Japan Times, as of 2012, Yahoo! Japan had a footprint on the internet market in Japan.
An example is the Tagalog word libre, which is derived from the Spanish translation of the English word free, although used in Tagalog with the meaning of "without cost or payment" or "free of charge", a usage which would be deemed incorrect in Spanish as the term gratis would be more fitting; Tagalog word libre can also mean free in aspect of ...
The dialects (方言, hōgen) of the Japanese language fall into two primary clades, Eastern (including modern capital Tokyo) and Western (including old capital Kyoto ), with the dialects of Kyushu and Hachijō Island often distinguished as additional branches, the latter perhaps the most divergent of all. [ 1]
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [ 11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [ 11] The input text had to be translated into English first ...
The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. [ 1] This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji (ローマ字, lit. 'Roman letters', [ɾoːma (d)ʑi] ⓘ or [ɾoːmaꜜ (d)ʑi]). Japanese is normally written in a combination of logographic characters borrowed from Chinese ...