The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary

by Andrew N. Nelson, John H. Haig (Revised by)

Overview

"Unexcelled as a dictionary of basic Sino-Japanese characters. Extremely easy to use."—Japan Society

This is the utmost classic and well regarded standard Japanese Kanji Dictionary available today.
The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary is a complete revision of The Original Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary, published by Charles E. Tuttle Company in 1962. Long the foremost Japanese-English character dictionary, adopted by Japanese-study programs around the world and used at all levels of Japanese language study, the Nelson, as it is familiarly called, has been enhanced in this edition with several fundamental changes.

• The Universal Radical Index, an significant advance on the traditional character indices, has been created as a handy appendix that enables users to search for any main-entry character's reference number in Morohashi's Dai Kanwa Jiten.
• Over 1,200 characters have been added and more than 2,000 new on-kun entries included.
• Definitions have been modernized to reflect current usage and translation.

This revised edition is updated with additional characters, contemporary definitions, and an innovative radical index system and sets new standards of excellence, easy-of-use, and reliability for Japanese language reference tools. This edition keeps pace with the evolution of the Japanese language and remains an indispensable tool for students and scholars of Japanese

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804820363
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	09/15/1997
Edition description:	First Edition,Revised,Hardcover with Jacket
Pages:	1616
Sales rank:	532,634
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 2.30(d)

About the Author

Andrew Nathaniel Nelson was born in Great Falls, Montana, in 1893. He received his B.A. from Walla Walla College and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. As a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary in Asia between 1918 and 1961, Dr. Nelson played a prominent role in the fields of education and language training. Throughout his life, Dr. Nelson remained devoted to the study of the Japanese language and the fundamentals of Chinese.

John H. Haig is an associate professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, one of the largest departments of its kind in the U.S.

Editorial Reviews

"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

From the Publisher

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. Haig (Japanese, Univ. of Hawai'i at Manoa) revised the resource in 1997 to include a fully expanded Universal Radical Index, permitting researchers to locate characters via any component radical, not just primaries. Keeping pace with the language's evolution over the 35 years following its initial publication, the reference includes over 7000 characters, 70,000 character-compounds, and their modernized definitions. Each entry features a corresponding Japanese Industrial Standard index number. Essential for all Japanese and East Asian studies collections.

—Savannah Schroll Guz

Library Journal

New edition of a reference which contains 700-plus main-entry characters complete with current definitions; about 70,000 character compounds; a cross- referencing system which includes the Japan Industrial Standard code number and the reference number in Morohashi's for each main-entry character; and the Universal Radical Index in which approximately 32,000 character entries can be found through not only the primary radical but any radical in the character. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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