Is there any website or software for reading or pronouncing kanji words?
2006-10-31 14:25:05 · 6 answers · asked by human 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
First, you need to know either the number and order of the strokes, or the radical, or you need to copy the particular Kanji in your browser. Then you can go to: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html and look up the Kanji.
This site is the most comprehensive collection of Kanji definitions in the world. It will give you the readings, uses, and meanings of over 50,000 Kanji and Hanzi. But you must be able to identify the radicals, stroke order, and stroke count to use it.
If you can use cut and paste, you could add it to your question and ask what it means.
2006-10-31 14:38:58 · answer #1 · answered by Longshiren 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know about a program for reading Kanji, but here is how to look it up and possible ways of getting pronunciations (I don't know how much you know about Japanese already): The easiest way to find kanji is by using a kanji dictionary. You need to know what the radical for the kanji is. If you don't know what that is, or how to find it go here http://japanese.about.com/library/weekly/aa070101a.htm and then google kanji dictionary, or try Jim Breen's site (http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html) and click on Find Kanji (Multiradical Method). Hopefully you have a japanese language pack as well, if not you can download one by searching for it, or get it from microsoft for internet explorer. As for pronouncing, usually the dictionaries have furigana (little hiragana) next to the kanji. If you can't read hiragana you can always find a translator, I don't know if the dictionaries include romaji (pronunciations written in english). good luck!
2006-10-31 14:45:19 · answer #2 · answered by EvanPMeth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I read Japanese (or used to anyway), I used a book called "A Guide to Reading and Writing Japanese" put out by Charles E. Tuttle Company. It listed 1850 characters by stroke c count. It took some time sometimes to accurately get the stroke count, but it gave examples of its use along with some pronunciation examples.
2006-10-31 15:04:35 · answer #3 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Est-ce-qu'il y a des sites web ou des logiciens pour aider a lire et prononcer des paroles de kanji?
2006-10-31 15:19:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dunt know how to help u, but i think u need to see a professional or a japanese..
2006-10-31 14:28:25 · answer #5 · answered by L1NA 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You could probably go to...
2006-10-31 14:27:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋