Comments on: Quick Japanese-English translations on Google

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:48:57 +0000

I always use this site for my Japanese needs:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html
It’s got EJ/JE dictionaries, Kanji lookup (by radicals, and stroke counts), nice keitai access, etc. Because I installed a YubNub (http://www.yubnub.org) browser extension, all I ever do is type:

ej hammer
or
je matsuri

(YubNub is great for creating commands for your favourite websites. I use it all the time. eg. “gim sushi” (this does a google image search), “gnews whaling” (a google news search), “d salacious” (dictionary.com search), etc, etc…)

By: Red

Red — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:26:43 +0000

thanks MP. It worked for me this time, too. I think the server must have been down when I tried last time.

By: MP

MP — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:45:08 +0000

It worked for me, it shows:
轆轤ろくろ (n) lathe/potter`s wheel/windlass/pulley

By: Red

Red — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:00:10 +0000

Thanks for the kanwa jiten link, MP.
I gave FOKS a shot but couldn’t seem to get it working. Was I too cruel using 轆轤 ? What am I doing wrong? (I typed it in the box and clicked on the SEARCH button) cheers

By: MP

MP — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:13:53 +0000

Sorry, I forgot to tell you about the FOKS dictionary that I use:
http://www.monbusho.org/foks.cgi
This is a great J->E dictionary. The good thing about it is, that you can type your search word in in ひらがな or kanji, or even type it in with wild cards. The search will then display a list of words that it thinks you mean, and will let you choose one. It then gives a simple definition.

Also, it is especially good for those tricky kanji that you dont know how to read. Just copy them into the dictionary as is, and it will give you the reading of the kanji, and the translation.

MonbushoFOKS combined with alc covers everything I need.

When are you guys going to put an ALC search on your site????

By: MP

MP — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:08:54 +0000

Wow, thats for that tip. I didnt know about this. I wish that we didnt have to type 英和 and 和英 though, wouldnt it be cool if it was just JE or EJ and then the word.
Does anyone have any other google tips? I am sure that there are a mountain of these sorts of things that are just not known about, but google is too busy starting new enterprises too tell people about them!