J-J Online Dictionaries with Wildcards

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Reply #1 - 2013 June 01, 3:21 pm
Sauzer Member
From: Maryland USA Registered: 2011-04-03 Posts: 82

I searched the archives a bit to no avail, so apologies if this has been covered before.

I sort of love browsing the dictionary pointlessly, running into fun or interesting words.  The absolute best feature on jisho.org is the wildcard search - I love sticking a kanji between two * and seeing everything EDICT has it in.  HOWEVER, as we all know, EDICT is far from comprehensive.  I am familiar and comfortable with the J-J dictionaries on yahoo, goo and alc, but (as far as I can tell...) they do not allow wildcard searches. 

Am I just missing this feature on one of those dictionaries? It's very possible, because I have not read their documentation. Or is there possibly a J-J dictionary that allows this?  I would be fine with J-E too, but to my knowledge the vast majority of the ones on the web are just frontends for EDICT so there probably wouldn't be much point there.

Reply #2 - 2013 June 01, 8:54 pm
howtwosavealif3 Member
From: USA Registered: 2008-02-09 Posts: 889 Website

they do it.. what you described .
見出し語検索

    前方一致
    完全一致
    後方一致
    部分一致
    全文検索

so you select the bold thing out of all the choices when you looked it up.

sanseido shows you the results more than the yahoo dic so i would reocmmend sanseido for this but the definitions aren't as thorough or you could think of it as more concise.

Last edited by howtwosavealif3 (2013 June 01, 8:54 pm)

Reply #3 - 2013 June 01, 9:48 pm
Sauzer Member
From: Maryland USA Registered: 2011-04-03 Posts: 82

Ahh, beautiful, thank you!

e: Sanseido is indeed very easy for this.  I'd never used it before.

Last edited by Sauzer (2013 June 01, 9:52 pm)

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