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	 <title>Dictionary Terminology Glossary</title>
	  <!--<copyright>
	    <year>2008-2009</year>
	    <holder>Zachary Dovel</holder>
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	 <authorgroup> 
		<author> 
		  <firstname>Zachary</firstname>
		  <surname>Dovel</surname> 
		  <affiliation> 
			 <address> <email>pizzach@gmail.com</email> </address>
		  </affiliation>
		</author>
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  <indexterm zone="index"> 
    <primary>gWaei</primary> 
  </indexterm>
  <indexterm zone="index"> 
    <primary>Dictionaries</primary> 
  </indexterm>


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<!-- ============= Introduction ============================= -->
   <abstract>
      <para>
        This help manual covers the terminology used by the EDICT (English)
        and the ENAMDICT (Names and Places) dictionaries.  Both
        are projects Copyright of The Electronic Dictionary Research and
        Development Group, Monash University.
      </para>
      <para>
        Most of the information here has been lifted from their web pages.
        For the most up to date documentation, you would be best off
        perusing their respective home pages.
      </para>
    </abstract>


<sect1 id="EdictLexicographicalDetails">
  <title>English Dictionary Glossary</title>
  <para>
    The EDICT (English-Japanese) dictionary uses some symbols to represent
    and classify words.  While you may be able to guess adj-na means a na
    form adjective, MA is a bit harder to guess.  This table was taken from
    <ulink url="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict_doc.html">the EDICT
    Project's homepage.</ulink>  For the newest revisions of the documentation,
    please check it out.
  </para>

  <sect2>
    <title>Part of Speech Markings</title>

    <sect3>
    <title>Adjective</title>
    <glosslist>
      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>adj-i</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>adjective (keiyoushi)</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>

      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>adj-na</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>

      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>adj-no</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>

      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>adj-pn</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>

      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>adj-t</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>`taru' adjective</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>

      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>adj-f</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>noun or verb acting prenominally (other than the above)</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>

      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>adj</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>former adjective classification (being removed)</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>

      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>adv</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>adverb (fukushi)</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>

      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>adv-n</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>adverbial noun</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>

      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>adv-to</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>adverb taking the `to' particle</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>
  </glosslist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
    <title>Auxiliary</title>
    <glosslist>
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>aux</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>auxiliary</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>

        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>aux-v</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>auxiliary verb</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>aux-adj</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>auxiliary adjective</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
    </glosslist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
    <title>Verb</title>
    <glosslist>
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v1</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Ichidan verb</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb (not completely classified)</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5aru</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb - -aru special class</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5b</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `bu' ending</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5g</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `gu' ending</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5k</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `ku' ending</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5k-s</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb - iku/yuku special class</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5m</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `mu' ending</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5n</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `nu' ending</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5r</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `ru' ending</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5r-i</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `ru' ending (irregular verb)</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>5s</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `su' ending</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5t</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `tsu' ending</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5u</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `u' ending</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5u-s</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `u' ending (special class)</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5uru</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb - uru old class verb (old form of Eru)</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>v5z</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Godan verb with `zu' ending</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>vz</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Ichidan verb - zuru verb - (alternative form of -jiru verbs)</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>vi</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>intransitive verb</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>vk</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>kuru verb - special class</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>vn</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>irregular nu verb</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>vs</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>vs-i</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>suru verb - irregular</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>vs-s</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>suru verb - special class</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>vt</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>transitive verb</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>iv</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>irregular verb</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
    
    </glosslist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
    <title>Noun</title>
    <glosslist>
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>n	noun</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>(common) (futsuumeishi)</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>n-adv</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi)</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>n-pref</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>noun, used as a prefix</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>n-suf</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>noun, used as a suffix</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>n-t</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
    </glosslist>
  </sect3>

  <sect3>
    <title>Other</title>
    <glosslist>
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>num</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>numeric</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>pref</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>prefix</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>prt</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>particle</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>suf</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>suffix</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>conj</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>conjunction</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>ctr</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>counter</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>exp</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>id</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>idiomatic expression</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
        
        <glossentry>
          <glossterm>int</glossterm>
          <glossdef><para>interjection (kandoushi)</para></glossdef>
        </glossentry>
    </glosslist>
  </sect3>
</sect2>

<sect2>
  <title>Field of Application Markings</title>
  <glosslist>
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>Buddh</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>Buddhist term</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>MA</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>martial arts term</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>comp</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>computer terminology</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>food</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>food term</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>geom</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>geometry term</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>gram</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>grammatical term</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>ling</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>linguistics terminology</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>math</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>mathematics</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>mil</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>military</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>physics</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>physics terminolog</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
  </glosslist>
</sect2>
  
<sect2>
  <title>Miscellaneous Markings</title>
  <glosslist>

    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>X</glossterm>	
      <glossdef><para>rude or X-rated term</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>abbr</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>abbreviation</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>arch</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>archaism</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>ateji</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>ateji (phonetic) reading</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>chn</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>children's language</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>col</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>colloquialism</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>derog</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>derogatory term</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>eK</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>exclusively kanji</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>ek</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>exclusively kana</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>fam</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>familiar language</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>fem</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>female term or language</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>gikun</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>gikun (meaning) reading</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>hon</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>hum</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>humble (kenjougo) language</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>iK</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>word containing irregular kanji usage</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>id</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>idiomatic expression</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>io</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>irregular okurigana usage</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>m-sl</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>manga slang</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>male</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>male term or language</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>male-sl</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>male slang</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>ng</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>neuter gender</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>oK</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>word containing out-dated kanji</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>obs</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>obsolete term</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>obsc</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>obscure term</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>ok</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>out-dated or obsolete kana usage</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>on-mim</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>onomatopoeic or mimetic word</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>poet</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>poetical term</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>pol</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>polite (teineigo) language</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>rare</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>rare</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>sens</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>sensitive word</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>sl</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>slang</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>uK</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>word usually written using kanji alone</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>uk</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>word usually written using kana alone</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>vulg</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>vulgar expression or word</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>

  </glosslist>
</sect2>

<sect2>
  <title>Gairaigo and Regional Word Markings</title>
  <glosslist>
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>kyb</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>Kyoto-ben</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>osb</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>Osaka-ben</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>ksb</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>Kansai-ben</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>ktb</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>Kantou-ben</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>tsb</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>Tosa-ben</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>thb</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>Touhoku-ben</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>tsug</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>Tsugaru-ben</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>kyu</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>Kyuushuu-ben</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>
    
    <glossentry>
      <glossterm>rkb</glossterm>
      <glossdef><para>Ryuukyuu-ben</para></glossdef>
    </glossentry>

  </glosslist>
</sect2>

</sect1>
      

<sect1 id="EnamdictLexicographicalDetails">
  <title>Names/Places Dictionary Glossary</title>
  <para>
    The Names and Places dictionaries uses some symbols to represent and
    classify words.  While you may be able to guess "m" means a male given
    name, g is a bit harder to guess.  This table was taken from
    <ulink url="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/enamdict_doc.html">the
    ENAMDICT Project's homepage.</ulink>  For the newest revisions of the
    documentation, please check it out.
  </para>

  <sect2>
    <title>General Markings</title>
    <glosslist>
      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>s</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>Surname</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>

      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>p</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>Place-name</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>
      
      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>u</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>Person name, either given or surname, as-yet unclassified</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>
      
      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>g</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>Given name, as-yet not classified by sex</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>
      
      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>f</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>Female given name</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>
      
      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>m</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>Male given name</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>
      
      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>h</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>Full (family plus given) name of a particular person</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>
      
      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>pr</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>Product name</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>
      
      <glossentry>
        <glossterm>co</glossterm>
        <glossdef><para>Company name</para></glossdef>
      </glossentry>
    
    </glosslist>
  </sect2>

</sect1>

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