Celebrated as the “great treasure trove of kanji culture,” the Dai Kanwa Jiten is a Chinese-Japanese character dictionary containing 50,000 character entries and 530,000 compounds, having scoured the existing literature and dictionaries, both ancient and modern. The vocabulary of every historical ...
This dictionary is based on the eighth edition of the Shinsen Kanwa Jiten, a revised version of a complete original Chinese-Japanese character (kanji) dictionary fully conforming to the New List of Kanji Characters in Common Use (Shin Joyo-kanji Hyo), announced in the fall of 2010. Revisions...