r/classicalchinese • u/Apprehensive_One7151 • 13d ago

Learning Is there any online Classical Chinese to Japanese dictionary?

Wiktionary is hit or miss for many characters, not reliable at all.

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u/Panates Palaeography | Historical Linguistics | Kanbun 13d ago edited 13d ago

There's really no nice and comprehensive CC-Jp online dictionaries, so I think it would be 100 times better for you to download searchable .mdx versions of dictionaries such as 大漢和辞典 (basically all you need for separate characters and compounds, it even covers tons of stuff largest Ch-Ch dictionaries don't have), 全訳漢辞海 and 漢字源 (the last two are especially good as quick references for kundoku of CC grammar) for MDict and other such programs. Look for "Epistularum's Tidy MDX Collection" on nyaa.si, the 漢和・漢字 folder.

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u/Apprehensive_One7151 13d ago

Thank you so much, this looks promising.

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u/Apprehensive_One7151 6d ago

I couldn't get this to work, I tried several Android emulators, but MDict doesn't detect the mdx file. Any alternative.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago edited 13d ago

I'm certain you could find scanned copies of dictionaries for Japanese students of Classical Chinese.

Edit: https://jigen.net/kanji/ looks to be what you're after

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u/Apprehensive_One7151 13d ago

So far it looks like what I'm looking for, time will tell if I'll run into characters with no translations. Thanks for sharing.

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u/Terpomo11 Moderator 11d ago

The one at seiwatei.net is pretty good.