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Daijirin
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English
thumb|250px|A copy of the third edition of the Daijirin.
Etymology
en ja - 大辞林 ^だいじりん Great Forest of Words.
Pronunciation
en en /ˈdaɪ.d͡ʒiː.ɹɪn/ UK
en en /ˈdaɪ.d͡ʒi.ɹɪn/ US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Daijirin.wav US
en Dai ji rin
Proper noun
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A comprehensive single-volume Japanese dictionary edited by Akira Matsumura and first published in 1988 by Sanseidō.
en Gerald Figal 2000-01-17 Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society Duke University Press 9780822324188 223 https://books.google.com/books?id=uTgTO6Vkzt8C&pg=PA223 Although synonyms, tasogare and kawatare, the Daijirin informs us, took up a popular pseudodivision of labor: tasogare came to refer to the evening phenomenon and kawatare came to refer to its morning counterpart.
en Janet S. Shibamoto Smith Shigeko Okamoto 2004-10-28 Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People Studies in Language and Gender Oxford University Press 9780195166187 175 https://books.google.com/books?id=j3J8P7g_O0wC&pg=PA175 Relatively recent dictionaries such as Sanseedoo gendai kokugo jiten (first published in 1988), Daijirin (1988), and Daijisen (1995) have included usage labels and supplemental notes from their first editions.Daijirin’s notes concerning usage were also eliminated from its second edition, demonstrating that some revisions represent changes for the worse.
en Keith Brown Ronald E. Asher 2005-11-24 Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Elsevier 9780080547848 9676 https://books.google.com/books?id=cxYGQfiD_1oC&pg=PT9676 More recently, websites such as Yahoo and Infoseek have begun to provide free Web dictionary services, in which major unabridged monolingual dictionaries such as Dai jirin (大辞林 233 000 entries) and Dai jisen (大辞泉 220 000 entries) can be accessed via the Web.
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See also
en Daijisen
en Books Dictionaries Japan
Japanese
Romanization
だいじりん