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11-05-2010, 01:46 AM

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Someone who used to post here (but I haven't seen him in a while)
Sorry, I haven't been here in a while. Was just googling for "tantei monogatari" and found a thread here. I had to reactivate my password.
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has actually designed a website where you can use your mouse to write a kanji and it will recognize it and give you the text version. Handwritten kanji search at sljfaq.org

Thanks, Ben Bullock!
Well, you're welcome, Kyle.
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11-05-2010, 01:56 AM

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The IME Pad, if you have that on your PC, works just as good.
The Microsoft IME pad works just as well as my system, if not better, and it's faster, since you aren't sending your kanji input to Florida or Arizona and back. Also the IME pad is set up for input so you don't have to cut and paste anything.

This is MS IME pad in action:

YouTube - MS IME pad examples

This is my system (the "new testing version" as it's advertised):

YouTube - kanji2.sljfaq.org look ahead 20 April 2010

Incidentally I thought the following system was interesting:

手書き漢字検索その2

This claims to have 65,000 characters, so it might be good for those "very hard to find" characters. The underlying recognition engine is the open-source "Tomoe" system (mine is based on Kanjipad, plus some extensions I created myself).
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11-05-2010, 02:12 AM

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I cannot find this kanji on any dictionary I have. I suppose it means happy or glad...
女喜しい
(ATTENTION. Since I don't know how to read it I couldn't use IME. I know those are 2 kanji, but the one I need is formed by those 2).
I see you have already got a nice answer from Kyle. For future reference, I don't know if the following page is any use to you:

How is a kanji dictionary used?

It's an attempt to explain how to look up words in a kanji dictionary

But I wrote it a while ago & maybe it is not very well written, so I'll think about how to make it a bit easier to read.
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11-05-2010, 12:23 PM

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I see you have already got a nice answer from Kyle. For future reference, I don't know if the following page is any use to you:

How is a kanji dictionary used?

It's an attempt to explain how to look up words in a kanji dictionary

But I wrote it a while ago & maybe it is not very well written, so I'll think about how to make it a bit easier to read.
LOL trust me I know how to use my kanji dictionaries. On and off I have had and used that dictionary for 20 years The fact is that the kanji I was looking for is not in that dictionary.


降り注ぐ雨 マジで冷てぇ
暗闇の中 歩くしかねぇ
everything’s gonna be okay 恐れることねぇ
辛い時こそ胸を張れ
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11-05-2010, 01:13 PM

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The Microsoft IME pad works just as well as my system, if not better, and it's faster, since you aren't sending your kanji input to Florida or Arizona and back. Also the IME pad is set up for input so you don't have to cut and paste anything.

This is my system (the "new testing version" as it's advertised):
Can you hear a strange high-pitched noise, like a squeal of language-nerd glee? That would be me. Like Kyle, I run on Mac, and I've sorely, sorely missed having Windows IME pad.
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11-06-2010, 12:11 AM

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LOL trust me I know how to use my kanji dictionaries.
Oh, sorry, well perhaps someone else will find that useful.
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On and off I have had and used that dictionary for 20 years
Which dictionary, sorry?
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The fact is that the kanji I was looking for is not in that dictionary.
Is the kanji for "ureshii" not in your dictionary, or was it not ureshii after all? I'm sure the 嬉 (ureshii) kanji is in all Japanese kanji dictionaries.
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Can you hear a strange high-pitched noise, like a squeal of language-nerd glee? That would be me. Like Kyle, I run on Mac, and I've sorely, sorely missed having Windows IME pad.
Wow, don't they have that on the Macintosh? Maybe I could make a deal with Steve Jobs then.
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11-06-2010, 01:04 AM

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Wow, don't they have that on the Macintosh? Maybe I could make a deal with Steve Jobs then.
Let me just pull his contact info from my rolodex
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11-07-2010, 11:37 PM

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Wow, don't they have that on the Macintosh? Maybe I could make a deal with Steve Jobs then.
Better move fast; rumor is they're developing something for ipad/iphone.
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