It's got the Genius 2nd edition dictionary in it. Genius and Kenkyusha are probably the two best E-J J-E dictionaries out there. So how many kanji? All of the ones you'll probably ever need, except for that 0.01% of oddball stuff.

As for vocab/words, well, you may not always find an entry for what you're looking for, but if you buy a denshi jisho, you're getting the same basic E-J J-E dictionary. The difference is that denshi jishos often have other extra dictionaries you can consult for old, obscure, or otherwise oddball words.

If you can't find it on that, then just use the mycroft plugins for Firefox for ALC, Yahoo.co.jp, excite.co.jp's kenkyusha dictoinary, and dictionary.goo.ne.jp. And if you can't find it there, then you're just out of luck.

urpwnd wrote:

The character recognition, while seemingly uncaring about stroke order, is also pretty great.

Very true. I'm constantly amazed at how good it is at recognizing the characters. Sometimes I make them almost unrecognizable on purpose, and it still understands!

Anyway (sorry for the multiple posts) its entries contain a lot of kanji. I've always found all the kanji I needed, and that includes also quite a few non-RTK1/3 ones.

Does the J-J dictionary have example sentences?

uberstuber wrote:

Does the J-J dictionary have example sentences?

I think I recall having seen an example sentence in the J-J part on occasion. But honestly, they are so few and far between that I would just go ahead and say "no, there aren't any".
The J-E DOES contain quite a few example sentences in both Japanese and English.

What, really? I thought those were the definitions :p Maybe I need to practice using it more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ziFTPpHxE

Looks interesting,
I see that Tae Kim also recommends it..
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