Use handwriting to enter unfamiliar characters. Easy lookup for kanji and kanji compounds.

Handwritten input

A wealth of additional content (optional) provides a wide range of customization options.

Additional content

Displays text clearly even in dimly lit situations.

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Native pronunciation of retrieved English terms. Native pronunciation in other languages available using the additional content.

Native pronunciation

■Key names and functions

Pressing this key toggles between "Multiple hiragana search" and "Multiple letter search".

Pressing this key toggles between "Kojien" and "Meikyo Japanese-language dictionary".

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■Selecting a dictionary

Pressing the 1 to 5 keys toggles between the content printed above and the content printed below.

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Using the keys

Pressing this key toggles between the "Genius English-Japanese Dictionary" and the "Economics & Business Dictionary".

Pressing this key toggles between the "Mypedia" and "Kanjigen" encyclopedias.

Pressing this key toggles between the "Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary" and "Home Medical".

Press this key to enter a question mark (?) or hyphen (～) or to use functions such as Setup and the Guide.

When the information does not all fit into one screen, use this key to scroll up and down (Page Up/Down).

Press this key to undo the last action.

Pressing this key in the screen showing the meaning of a word displays a list of terms that include that word.

Press this key to correct a character you entered on the handwriting panel.

Press this key to confirm a character you entered on the handwriting panel.

Press this key to proceed to the next step after you have entered a character or selected an item.

When there is more text that will not fit onto the screen, hold down this key to move to the next screen.

Press this key to hear the audio in another language.

Press this key to move the cursor (the highlight or the yellow line under the character) forward or back one step at a time and to select an item.

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Handwritten input

Native pronunciation

In the screen that explains the meanings of terms, you can also listen to the pronunciation of foreign-language terms, phrases and sample sentences.

● TRUE VOICE®（Pronunciation by native speakers） 　　・Compatible dictionaries: Cambridge Learner's Dictionary, Genius English-Japanese

Dictionary, English Thesaurus, Tossa no Hitokoto English Conversation Dictionary, English Conversation Anywhere EB, Hyakunin-Isshu Collected Poems

　　・Supported pronunciations: Items for which pronunciation files are provided

■Listening to the pronunciation of 　retrieved terms (Audio function) 1

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When you press C, the term or phrase above or to the left of the icon is read out.

■Using handwritten input to look up 　the Japanese for English terms

■Using handwritten input to look up 　the English for Japanese terms

In this example, we will look up "海". Write "海" on the handwriting panel and touch 　　　 .

In this example, we will look up "fine". We enter the word one letter at a time, writing "f" on the handwriting panel and then touching 　　　　　before writing "i" and touching 　　　　again.

You can write out an English word on the handwriting panel and look up the Japanese translation.

You can write out a Japanese word on the handwriting panel and look up the English translation.

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1You can also select the "Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary" from the menu.

You can also select the "Genius English-Japanese Dictionary" from the menu.

・If the letter is not recognized correctly, press 　　　 and correct the letter. ・You can also enter words by writing several letters at once.

3 Press 　　　　　or 　 to highlight the word you want to look up and then press　　　 . The corresponding Japanese term is displayed.

3 Press 　　　　　or 　 to highlight the word you want to look up and then press　　　 . The corresponding English term is displayed.

Use the handwriting panel to enter the word you want to look up. Using the touch-pen provided, write the word directly onto the handwriting panel. As you write the word, touch 　　　　after each letter.

・If the character is not recognized correctly, press 　　　 and correct the character.

・You can also enter words by writing several characters at once.

Enter the word you want to look up using kanji and hiragana or katakana. Using the touch-pen provided, write the word directly onto the handwriting panel. As you write the word, touch 　　　 after each character.

The icon is highlighted.... and the icon and the icon for the language used for the pronunciation is displayed.

Check that "見出し語検索（Search by keyword）" is highlighted.

When the icon appears in the screen, press .音声

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Keyboard input

Alphabetic input keyboard

To enter a letter, press the key with the corresponding letter printed on it.

■Entering letters

"みかん" is entered.

（E.g.） To enter "みかん" To use Romanized kana input, press the letter key （MIKANN in this case）.

■Entering hiragana

3 Press 　　　 or　　to highlight the word you want to look up and then press . The corresponding Japanese term is displayed.

3 Press 　　　 or　　to highlight the word you want to look up and then press . The corresponding English term is displayed.

In this example, we will look up "orange". As you enter the letters, matching candidates are displayed. Here, when you enter "oran", "orange" is displayed.

2 Enter the word you want to look up. 2 Enter the word you want to look up in hiragana.

You can also select the "Genius English-Japanese Dictionary" from the menu.

■Looking up the Japanese for English terms

You can also select the "Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary" from the menu.

When you are using a tool such as the "English-Japanese Dictionary" to enter text in English, the keyboard automatically switches to alphabetic input.

When you enter Japanese in tools such as the "Kojien", "Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary" or "Kanwa-jiten", the keyboard automatically switches to kana input.

You can enter the letters in a word and then look up the Japanese for that word.

■Looking up the English for Japanese termsYou can enter a Japanese word and then look up the English for that word.

Check that "見出し語検索（Search by keyword）" is highlighted.

Here, we are looking up "魚", so we enter "さかな". As you enter the reading, matching candidates are displayed.