Dictionary of Kanji created in Japan

Abstract

"Wasei Kanji no Jiten -- Dictionary of Kanji created in Japan" is the first online dictionary dedicated to Kokuji(Kanji created in Japan). Almost all Kanji(Chinese characters) in Japanese were imported from Chinese. But some characters were created by Japanese people. We call them Kokuji

(literally "national characters"). For example, touge

, mountain pass was created combining "mountain"

, "up"

and "down"

. This dictionary includes some Kokuji and Kanji which was thought as Kokuji.

If you can read Japanese but your browser or OS doesn't support Japanese characters, you can read this homepage via Shodouka Launchpad. Click here. (It is necessary that your browser can supports images.) And Read and Write Japanese on browsers may be useful for Win95 users.

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Author: Copyright (C) Nozomu Oohara,1998-2000
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