https://github.com/odrevet/gjiten-kai

A modern re-writting of Gjiten, a japanese dictionary
https://github.com/odrevet/gjiten-kai

glade gtk3 japanese-dictionary japanese-language jmdict kanji

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A modern re-writting of Gjiten, a japanese dictionary

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/odrevet/gjiten-kai
• Owner: odrevet
• License: other
• Created: 2019-01-27T08:38:07.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-05-11T20:44:01.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-08-09T01:12:14.632Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: glade, gtk3, japanese-dictionary, japanese-language, jmdict, kanji
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 795 KB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Gjiten kai

A modern re-writting of Gjiten, a japanese dictionary

# Goal

The goal of this rewrite of Gjiten is to have a Gjiten with new features and a

new interface, while keeping the original overall design. 

# Setup

## Edict 

To use the worddic (word dictionary) you will need an EDICT dictionary file.

Get one from https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/JMdict-EDICT_Dictionary_Project

Dictionary files can be downloaded directly from Gjitenkai in the ''preference/Download'' menu

Then set the worrdic file in Edit/preferences/ Worddic - Dictionary - New - Browse ...  

## Other

You also need Japanese font and a Japanse input system. See your OS documentation

for more details. 

# Documentation

The documentation in available in the project Wiki 

## Build from source / create an appimage 

https://github.com/odrevet/gjitenkai/wiki/build

## Learn how to search japanese expressions

By reading the use case located at https://github.com/odrevet/gjiten-kai/wiki/Search-Japanese-expressions

# Differences with the Original Gjiten 2.6

* Rewritten from scratch, with GTK3 and Glade

* Very fast (even on old computer)

* Regex search

* Configurable output color, font and character separator

* JMDict, JMneDict, EDICT, EDICT2 support

* gzipped and unzipped dictionary support

* Unicode and JP-EU encoding support

* Autoexpend kanji to it's radical list

* Threaded dictionary loading 

* Download dictionaries 

# Credits

* Gjiten kai developer (2015 - current) Olivier Drevet

* Special Thanks to the Original Gjiten developer (1999 - 2005) Botond Botyanszki 

* EDICT Dictionary Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence (V3.0)