About Jardic Pro and Jardic Lite Dictionaries

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Jardic Pro

Jardic Pro is a dictionary software that can be used with various types of dictionary files including following:

  • Internal Japanese-Russian dictionary with about 7,000 articles
  • Japanese-English dictionaries EDICT, KANJIDIC, ENAMDICT and dictionaries in similar format, e.g. JR-EDICT
  • Dictionaries in ABBYY Lingvo DSL format for any language, including Western, Eastern and Middle Eastern languages
  • EIJIRO Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionaries in TXT format, and others

Jardic Pro can search for translation of words in all loaded dictionaries using following lists:

  • List of words
  • List of word readings (kana for Japanese, pinyin for Chinese)
  • List of words written in kanji
  • List of all words contained in all dictionary articles
  • List of all kanji and combinations of kanji contained in all dictionary articles

Jardic Pro can translate words under the cursor "on the fly" in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, HTML Help and Microsoft Word applications. When translating words written in kanji the program can display information about complex words or phrases and about separate kanji and sub-words included. When translating Japanese text the program can recognize basic grammar forms.

Jardic Pro has following features that distinguishes it from other dictionary software:

  • Import of dictionary files in different formats
  • Simultaneous work with dictionaries for different languages
  • Quick search for words in big dictionaries with more then 1,000,000 articles
  • Multiple lists of words and kanj
  • Quick search in lists of all words and all kanji in all dictionary articles
  • Special support for Eastern language dictionaries



Jardic Lite

Jardic Lite is a Japanese-Russian, Japanese-English electronic dictionary with following features:

  • Search for words and kanji in different dictionaries. You can search for words in internal dictionary and in external dictionaries, for example in popular EDICT. Jardic Lite supports equal functionality both for internal and external, Japanese-Russian and Japanese-English dictionaries. Internal Japanese-Russian dictionaries of Jardic Lite cover Level 3 of JLPT. Internal dictionary of words contains about 7,000 articles; internal dictionary of kanji contains 245 articles.
     
  • Translate words under the cursor in Internet Explorer, MS Word, Outlook Express and HTML Help. Jardic Lite has the ability to translate words under the cursor without pre-selecting Japanese word. This feature is very helpful because Japanese text does not have clear division onto words. Jardic Lite automatically defines the first and last characters of the word under the cursor. No selection or cut-and-paste is required. When different decisions are possible Jardic Lite shows the list of translations.
     
  • Flashcards of words and kanji. Jardic Lite can be used as original word & kanji flashcard program. Jardic flashcards are programmable. You can define durations and a sequence in which different items (reading, translation, on, kun, etc.) should be shown. Size of the flashcards and those positions on the screen can also be tuned. A screenshot of flashcard image is shown below:
     
           
     
  • Creation of external dictionaries of words and kanji. Jardic Lite contains powerful set of functions for developing Japanese dictionaries. You can create dictionary articles by direct typing, by copying lists of words through the clipboard, by dragging, etc. Dictionary articles can be edited with convenient dialog functions. You can quickly build specific Japanese dictionaries for your own purposes.
     

 


Jardic Pro and Jardic Lite Comparative Table

FeatureJardic ProJardic Lite
Internal Japanese-Russian dictionary++
Import of EDICT, KANJIDIC dictionaries++
Import of Eijiro TXT dictionary data+-
Import of DSL ABBYY Lingvo dictionary data+-
Import of dictionaries for other languages+-
Import of large dictionaries (with more then 1,000,000 entries)+-
List of word readings++
List of words written in kanji+-
List of words by alphabet+-
List of words for backward translation-+
List of all words contained in all articles (full-text index)+-
List of all kanji contained in all articles (full-text index)+-
Merged lists of words from multiple dictionaries+-
Translation of words under the cursor in Internet Explorer, MS Word, Outlook Express and HTML Help++
Flashcards of words and kanji-+
Creation of external dictionaries -+
 

Acknowledgement

We would like to express our gratitude to all those who have helped us to create Jardic dictionary and software.

Nobutoshi KOHARA
JARDIC project could not be implemented without support from Nobutoshi Kohara. During last years we developed together some other projects, including Web-pages about different aspects of Japanese culture and Japanese language.

Dmitry Pulinets
Dmitry is an author of JARDIC dictionaries to "Japanese Self-Study Book" by B.P.Lavrentiev.

Oleg Volkov
Oleg is an author of JR-EDICT Japanese-Russian dictionary. JR-EDICT can be used with JARDIC software.

Our correspondents
We received useful comments and suggestions from: Vasily Agafonov, Artyom Volkov, Miyako Nishita and other authors. We would like to express our appreciations to all of them.

 

Additional Information


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