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License: GPL v3

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)