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Weronika

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Then it's a problem, isn't it :)

What do you do when you see Hànzì? Do the same with Kanji. Look them up in a dictionary.

Japanese requires a bit more logic and understanding of the language to read them and kanji usually have 2 or more readings. It's just a simplified answer but your question is very vague too :)

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If you can’t read Kanji on Japanese web site, please check their pronunciations and meanings in the link below. It is quite ease and all you need is just to cut and paste.

http://dict.pspinc.com/indexj.htm

If you can’t read Kanji in some Japanese reading materials, please buy a Japanese dictionary with supplements, which tell you how to look up Kanji’s pronunciations according to Kanji’s s strokes, or some other ways.

Or maybe you can try to read a Kanji in your computer.

First, set up a word file, and shit to Japanese input system.

Second, kick the button “IME pad”, and choose “Hand Writing”.

Third, use mouse to write down the Kanji you want to read.

Four, you can see how to read when you put your mouse on that character.

Thanks!

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Which dictionary you're referring to, Weronika?

There is number of phonetical dictionaries for Japanese where words can be looked up by their pronunciation. Romanised dictionaries are listed in Roman alphabetical order, kana dictionaries are sorted in hiragana/katakana order.

Japanese Kanji (not word) dictionaries are similar to Chinese. They also use radicals, stroke numbers, etc.

Try these online dictionaries

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

Japanese interface but very powerful:

http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/

A very basic word dictionary:

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html

Questions about Japanese are better asked in a Japanese forum, not Chinese:

http://www.jref.com/forum/

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but in japanese dictionary isn't any kanji

(or just I didn't see the right dictionary??):(

Ala, I see what’s wrong. I have heard that Japanese compile some dictions without any kanji, but with only “kana” and romaji to help West people who begin to learn Japanese to grasp pronunciation of Japanese words, so that they can learn Japanese faster and easier. I suppose your Japanese dictionary is this kind. I think maybe you need to change your dictionary on hand.:)

Thanks!

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With Japanese (it is true for Chinese to some extent) you may want 2 types of dictionaries - 1) word dictionary 2) kanji dictionary.

1) Word dictionary will also include words of foreign origin, particles and words that are normally written in hiragana (although there is also a traditional kanji spelling). Good word dictionaries have example of words used and you really want to concentrate on words and their usage, then characters

A must have dictionary:

http://www.amazon.com/Kodansha-Furigana-Japanese-Dictionary-English-Japanese/dp/4770024800

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2) Kanji dictionary helps to understand the components and multiple readings of characters. Kanji are not the only method to write in Japanese and you can get away by memorising words but you get very confused if you don't have understanding of kanji.

This is an excellent dictionary, you won't regret you get this one!:

http://www.kanji.org/dictionaries/learners/learners.htm

It has stroke orders, quick search method, lots of information about characters, examples, etc. (One thing I would add - link to Mandarin pronunciation :) )

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If you can use English for learning Japanese, then these 2, IMHO are the best dictionaries you can get for Japanese. (I have nothing to do with Kodansha but I think their dictionaries are the best).

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A beginning learner of Chinese will usually need both a word dictionary (词典) for looking up words and a character dictionary (字典) for looking up characters.

Do the same with Japanese: use a character dictionary (字典) for characters and a word dictionary (辞典) for words. One dictionary does not normally cover both areas.

PS: Just noticed atitarev's post above after posting this (time lag! :mrgreen: ), so I'm almost saying the same thing.

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