KANJIDIC2 - What's New

I'll try and keep a record of the changes here. To see who has contributed to the file, the most complete record is in the KANJIDIC documentation.

Fourth Version (2004-02) 14 August 2004

Added the kanji itself as a UTF8-encoded character. (Change to the DTD.)
Added the index numbers from the 3rd Edition of The Guide to Reading & Writing Japanese edited by Henshall, Seeley & De Groot. Thanks to James Rose for providing these.
Added the Portuguese meanings for most of JIS X 0208. Thanks to Markus Pristovsek and Wladimir Carvalho.

Third Version (2004-01) 11 March 2004

The major change has been the addition of meanings in German for all the JIS X 0208 kanji, in addition to the Spanish meanings for several thousand kanji mentioned below. These have been contributed by Hans-Joerg Bibiko and Gabriel Sanroman respectively. (As a by-product German and Spanish editions of the legacy KANJIDIC file are now available.)

There has also been a lot of editing of the English fields, mainly to make them more consistent. Thanks to Jimmy Snyder for excellent proof-reading.

Second Version (2003-3) 29 July 2003

A few things have happened here:

• information about the 3,625 kanji from JIS X 0213 has been added. To do this, the 2,741 kanji which are also in JIS X 0212 have JIS X 0213 code-points (kuten) added to the existing entries and the 884 "new" kanji have new entries. This information has been derived from the Unihan.txt file from the unicode.org site.
• almost all the JIS208 kanji have English meanings.
• the kuten codes are padded out to two digits, with a leading "0" where necessary.

Initial Public Release (2003-2) 20 July 2003

Well, nothing is new in this, since it's the first public version.

The extra information that was not found in prior KANJIDIC/KANJD212 releases is:

• the hangul form of the Korean readings of the kanji
• the Spanish meanings for some of the kanji
• the following dictionary, etc. codes:
  • "A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" edited by Florence Sakade.
  • Tuttle Kanji Cards, compiled by Alexander Kask.
  • "The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power" by Dale Crowley.
  • "Kanji in Context" by Nishiguchi and Kono.
  • "Japanese For Busy People" vols I-III, published by the AJLT.
  • "Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide".

Jim
July 2003