A Japanese reference tool.

Kiten comes ready to use. It will take a bit of time to start up the first time as it indexes your dictionary files.

Kiten is currently a set of 3 tools:

1. Dictionary

2. Radical Selector

3. Kanji Browser

4. Dictionary Kiten works mainly as a Japanese -> English dictionary, but it works from English -> Japanese too. This means you can write in english, hiragana, katakana or kanji to search in the dictionaries.

   If you have extra dictionaries in the correct formats, visit the "edict" and "kanjidic" configuration pages in: Settings -> Configure Kiten -> Dictionaries, and use the "Add" button. Then Kiten will search under all of these and display the results separately.

5. Radical Selector This tool helps you to find a kanji by just filtering its radicals. Only click on the buttons with the desired radicals and Radical Selector will find all the kanji that contains those radicals, this way you can find a kanji without knowing anything about its readings or meanings. Once you find the kanji you can just click on it and Kiten will automatically search for it in the dictionary*.

*You might need to enable "Automatically search clipboard selections" on the Settings menu. Alternatively you can select the kanji, click on "To clipboard" and paste it on the dictionary.

3. Kanji Browser You can browse all the kanji available in the KANJIDIC dictionary and be able to search by Grade and Number of strokes. By clicking on the kanji you can access detailed information such as stroke order, onyomi and kunyomi readings, meanings, grade and more.

Information about edict and kanjidic is available at the following urls:

EDICT Summary page: https://www.edrdg.org/jmdict/edict.html Full documentation: https://www.edrdg.org/wwwjdic/wwwjdicinf.html#dicfil_tag

KANJIDIC Full documentation: https://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project

Jim Breen compiled these fine files, so many thanks to him. The licenses for these two files can be found in the file LicenseRef-EDRDG.txt in the "LICENSES" directory.

-- Hope Kiten is useful to you! Jason Katz-Brown jason@katzbrown.com

(Edited to remove outdated information 6-21-06 - Joseph Kerian jkerian@gmail.com) (Edited to update information 8-21-11 - Daniel E. Moctezuma democtezuma@gmail.com) (Edited to update information 11-12-19 - Yuri Chornoivan yurchor@ukr.net)