Taebum Kim

Compact Japanese-English Dictionary 9000 Taebum Kim

This book is ideal for learners of Japanese as a second language who want to communicate more effectively and also for learners of English who know Japanese. This book lists 8,743 core Japanese words with English equivalents. Main entries are in Romanized Japanese followed by . Kana (Japanese alphabet). Next, in the same line, parts of speech label, and the entry's English equivalents. Japanese is written with three different scripts: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji (Chinese character). Typical Japanese words are written with Hiragana and Chinese characters. Chinese characters should be used since almost 90% of the language derives from Chinese characters. Katakana is usually used to write foreign words other than Chinese.