Ryuujin27
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Registered: 2006-12-14
Posts: 824
http://en.kanjiroushi.net/
Does anyone know anything about this site? I checked around to try to find out where their info comes from (especially in regards to their example sentence) and couldn't find anything. So, if no one here knows what the deal with the site is, then I will probably shoot them an e-mail to find out.
I ask because they seem to have a good program for the iPhone/iPod Touch that helps learn kanji based on many different classifications (this program is usable on their website, though I'm not sure if in full). When you select an exact word, they do give example sentences. It's these I really want to check the credentials of.
So if anyone knows, please post!
pm215
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From: UK
Registered: 2008-01-26
Posts: 1354
Looks like the examples are the Tanaka corpus, yes. I found this one in the examples for 腕:
彼は手腕家だ。
He is man of ability.
and if you look on the WWWJDIC site you find the same sentence with the same ungrammatical English translation.
Jarvik7 wrote:
EDICT/JMDICT+KANJIDIC+RADKFILE/KRADFILE+TANAKA. All free stuff of questionable quality.
These aren't all the same level of questionable quality, mind. Tanaka is far and away the worst (perhaps irredeemably so in the absence of native Japanese speakers to sanitize it). EDICT has its limitations (there's been a discussion somewhere on the forum before about this) but IME is not generally outright wrong, and sometimes is the only online source of a definition for an obscure or jargon word. I don't use the KANJIDIC/KRADFILE bits but it seems unlikely to me that they're going to be very far wrong (fairly simple and well defined purpose, after all), except in the "meanings" for kanji -- but then I'm not a fan of trying to ascribe meanings to individual kanji anyway...
