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| The Modern Reader's Japanese–English Character Dictionary | |
| Author: | Andrew N. Nelson |
| Country: | Japan, United States of America |
| Language: | English–Japanese |
| Subject: | Japanese–English character dictionary |
| Publisher: | C. E. Tuttle Co. |
| Pub Date: | 1962 |
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| Pages: | 1048 |
| Awards: | 1969 Prize for the Society for the Promotion of International Cultural Relations (Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai)[1] |
| Congress: | PL679 .N4[2] |
is a kanji dictionary published with English speakers in mind. Although a revised edition by John H. Haig, The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary, was published in 1997, it is still in print, now under the title The Original Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary – Classic Edition[1]
The dictionary contains about 5,000 entries, listing characters with their on and kun readings, compounds and English definitions. The entries are arranged by a system devised by the author as an extension of the traditional radical system.