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English

There are a variety of such tags:

abbr

an abbreviation

adj

an adjective (keiyoushi)

adj-na

adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyoudoushi) Becomes an adjective when na appended.

adj-no

nouns which may take the genitive case particle no

adj-pn

pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)

adj-s

special adjective (e.g. (ookii)

adj-t

"taru" adjective

adv

an adverb (fukushi)

adv-n

adverbial noun

adv-to

adverb taking the `to' particle

arch

archaism

ateji

ateji (phonetic) reading

aux

auxiliary

aux-v

auxiliary verb

aux-adj

auxiliary adjective

Buddh

Buddhist term

chn

children's language

col

colloquialism

comp

computer terminology

conj

conjunction

derog

derogatory

ek

exclusively kanji

exp

Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)

fam

familiar language

fem

female term or language

food

food term

geom

geometry term

gikun

gikun (meaning) reading

gram

grammatical

hon

honorific or respectful language (sonkeigo) language

hum

humble (kenjougo) language

id

idiomatic expression (kan'yougoku)

int

interjection (kandoushi)

iK

word containing irregular kanji usage

ik

word containing irregular kana usage

io

irregular okurigana usage

iv

irregular verb

kyb

Kyoto-ben

ksb

Kansai-ben

ktb

Kantou-ben

ling

linguistics terminology

MA

martial arts term

male

male term or language

male

male slang

math

mathematics

mil

military

m-sl

manga slang

n

noun (common) (futsuumeishi)

n-adv

adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi)

n-pref

noun, used as a prefix

n-suf

noun, used as a suffix

n-t

noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)

neg

negative (in a negative sentence, or with negative verb)

neg-v

negative verb (when used with)

ng

neuter gender

obs

obsolete term

obsc

obscure term

oK

word containing out-dated kanji

ok

out-dated or obsolete kana usage

osk

Osaka-ben

physics

physics terminology

pol

polite (teineigo)

pref

prefix

prt

particle

qv

quod vide (see another entry)

rare

rare

sl

slang

suf

suffix

tsb

Tosa-ben

uK

word usually written using kanji alone

uk

word usually written using kana alone

v1

Ichidan verb

v5

(godan) verb (not completely classified)

v5aru

(godan) verb - -aru special class

v5b

(godan) verb with `bu' ending

v5g

(godan) verb with `gu' ending

v5k

(godan) verb with `ku' ending

v5k-s

(godan) verb - iku/yuku special class

v5m

(godan) verb with `mu' ending

v5n

(godan) verb with `nu' ending

v5r

(godan) verb with `ru' ending

v5r-i

(godan) verb with `ru' ending (irregular verb)

v5s

(godan) verb with `su' ending

v5t

(godan) verb with `tsu' ending

v5u

(godan) verb with `u' ending

v5u-s

(godan) verb with `u' ending (special class)

v5uru

(godan) verb - uru old class verb (old form of Eru)

vi

intransitive verb (jidoushi)

vk

Kuru verb - special class

vs

noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru

vs-i

suru verb - irregular

vs-s

suru verb - special class

vt

transitive verb (tadoushi)

vulg

vulgar expression or word

vz

transitive verb

X

rude or vulgar term

For complete information, see edict's 23 k-byte documentation file.

Here are the special tags used within enamdict:

s

surname

p

place name

u

person name, either given or surname, as-yet unclassified

g

given name, as-yet not classified by sex

f

female given name

m

male given name

h

full (family plus given) name of a particular person

pr

product name

co

company name

st

stations

Included are

• character information
  • radical (bushu) number (standard and where applicable, classical)
  • frequency-of-use (in modern Japanese writing) ranking (based on an analysis of news articles in Mainichi Shimbun over a four-year period)
  • markings for jyouyou (with grade level) or jinmeiyou characters
  • Wan Chen's Four Corner code.
  • the character's SKIP pattern (from Halpern).
  • the Mandarin Chinese reading(s) (Pinyin)
  • the stroke count
  • the character's readings
  • general English meanings
  • Korean reading(s)
  • Cross references into JIS X 0208 and JIS X 0212
  • Mis-classification code
• indexes into other published works
  • Jack Halpern's New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Andrew Nelson's Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Andrew Nelson's The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary, edited by John Haig (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Mark Spahn and Wolfgang Hadamitzky's Japanese Character Dictionary - With Compound Lookup via Any Kanji (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Mark Spahn and Wolfgang Hadamitzky's Kanji & Kana: A Handbook of the Japanese Writing System (See it at Amazon.com)
  • the 13-volume Morohashi Daikanwajiten
  • Kenneth Henshall's A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Kenneth Henshall's A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Gakken's A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage (See it at Amazon.com)
  • James Heisig's Remembering The Kanji (See it at Amazon.com)
  • P.G. O'Neill's Japanese Names (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Kodansha's Japanese For Busy People (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Dale Crowley's The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Kodansha's Compact Kanji Guide (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Nishiguchi and Kono's Kanji in Context
  • P.G. O'Neill's Essential Kanji (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Father Joseph De Roo's 2001 Kanji (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Florence Sakade's A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (See it at Amazon.com)
  • Tuttle's Kanji Cards (See it at Amazon.com)
• encoding information
  • JIS (from which EUC, JIS, Shift-JIS, and kuten can be derived)
  • UNICODE

Included are almost the same number of fields as in Kanjidic, but due to a dearth of information, not as many as one would like.

Both kanji dictionaries are available at ftp.cc.monash.edu.au or at any good Nihongo mirror near you.