Jamdict’s documentation!¶
Jamdict is a Python 3 library for manipulating Jim Breen’s JMdict, KanjiDic2, JMnedict and kanji-radical mappings.
Welcome¶
Are you new to this documentation? Here are some useful pages:
Want to try out Jamdict package? Try Jamdict online demo
Want some useful code samples? See Common Recipes.
Want to look deeper into the package? See jamdict APIs.
If you want to help developing Jamdict, please visit Contributing page.
Main features¶
Support querying different Japanese language resources
Japanese-English dictionary JMDict
Kanji dictionary KanjiDic2
Kanji-radical and radical-kanji maps KRADFILE/RADKFILE
Japanese Proper Names Dictionary (JMnedict)
Fast look up (dictionaries are stored in SQLite databases)
Command-line lookup tool (Example)
Contributors are welcome! 🙇. If you want to help developing Jamdict, please visit Contributing page.
Installation¶
Jamdict and jamdict-data are both available on PyPI and can be installed using pip. For more information please see Installation page.
pip install jamdict jamdict-data
Also, there is an online demo Jamdict virtual machine to try out on Repl.it
Sample jamdict Python code¶
Looking up words
>>> from jamdict import Jamdict
>>> jam = Jamdict()
>>> result = jam.lookup('はな')
>>> for word in result.entries:
... print(word)
...
[id#1194500] はな (花) : 1. flower/blossom/bloom/petal ((noun (common) (futsuumeishi))) 2. cherry blossom 3. beauty 4. blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms) 5. ikebana 6. Japanese playing cards 7. (the) best
[id#1486720] はな (鼻) : nose ((noun (common) (futsuumeishi)))
[id#1581610] はし (端) : 1. end (e.g. of street)/tip/point/edge/margin ((noun (common) (futsuumeishi))) 2. beginning/start/first 3. odds and ends/scrap/odd bit/least
[id#1634180] はな (洟) : snivel/nasal mucus/snot ((noun (common) (futsuumeishi)))
Looking up kanji characters
>>> for c in result.chars:
... print(repr(c))
...
花:7:flower
華:10:splendor,flower,petal,shine,luster,ostentatious,showy,gay,gorgeous
鼻:14:nose,snout
端:14:edge,origin,end,point,border,verge,cape
洟:9:tear,nasal discharge
Looking up named entities
>>> result = jam.lookup('ディズニー%')
>>> for name in result.names:
... print(name)
...
[id#5053163] ディズニー : Disney (family or surname/company name)
[id#5741091] ディズニーランド : Disneyland (place name)
See Common Recipes for more code samples.
Command line tools¶
Jamdict can be used from the command line.
python3 -m jamdict lookup 言語学
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Found entries
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Entry: 1264430 | Kj: 言語学 | Kn: げんごがく
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1. linguistics ((noun (common) (futsuumeishi)))
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Found characters
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Char: 言 | Strokes: 7
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Readings: yan2, eon, 언, Ngôn, Ngân, ゲン, ゴン, い.う, こと
Meanings: say, word
Char: 語 | Strokes: 14
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Readings: yu3, yu4, eo, 어, Ngữ, Ngứ, ゴ, かた.る, かた.らう
Meanings: word, speech, language
Char: 学 | Strokes: 8
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Readings: xue2, hag, 학, Học, ガク, まな.ぶ
Meanings: study, learning, science
No name was found.
To show help you may use
python3 -m jamdict --help
Other info¶
Contributors¶
Le Tuan Anh (Maintainer)
Useful links¶
jamdict on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/jamdict/
jamdict source code: https://github.com/neocl/jamdict/
Documentation: https://jamdict.readthedocs.io/
- Dictionaries