Japanese - Finding field specific Jargon

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NoSleepTilFluent Member
From: The Dirty Jerz Registered: 2011-02-07 Posts: 358 Website

専門語 Japanese Jargon

As a lot of us are graduating every year I'm sure a couple people have looked into this subject before. But what is the best way to try and get a hold of all that jargon in your field. It seems impractical for me to go back and relearn everything in Japanese so I've been searching for a website or book that has a list of Jargon words.

I'm studying Mechanical engineering and found this site by using google http://www.tomoeshokai.co.jp/tec_info/wording/machine/ so far just wondering if there are any better options out there.

This one seems okay so far because they also define the term in Japanese as well as give an english translation.

lauri_ranta Member
Registered: 2012-03-31 Posts: 139 Website

JMdict/EDICT has these "field of application" tags:

Buddh  Buddhist term
MA  martial arts term
comp  computer terminology
food  food term
geom  geometry term
gram  grammatical term
ling  linguistics terminology
math  mathematics
mil  military
physics  physics terminology

Number of lines in the edict file that contain each tag:

$ for t in Buddh MA comp food geom gram ling math mil physics;do echo $(grep "($t)" edict.txt|wc -l) $t;done|sort -rn
12669 comp
1108 Buddh
620 food
618 ling
450 math
143 physics
135 MA
19 mil
8 geom
0 gram

ftp://ftp.edrdg.org/pub/Nihongo/00INDEX.html also includes some domain-specific word lists or dictionary files.

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