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At last count there were about seven and a half thousand files in this area, mostly kanji.
Random Notes from 日本語 の クラス
More Syntax Tidbits from other sources.
Ruby Annotation
has been incorporated into XHTML as of
XHTML version 1.1,
allowing a somewhat straightforward approach to adding furigana
to
However, stylesheet construction for the table-like ruby code is
tricky
(especially if you want to obviate rbspan with its annoying
default of 1 instead of full-width);
see this document's CSS data for one approach.
Unfortunately, Ruby doesn't expose the full table interface, and so has
a hard limit of two ruby texts even though three could be trivially supported
with table-header-group, table-footer-group, and table-caption
(with the last, in particular, making rbspan
unnecessary in many cases, although whether it would work in vertical text
like traditional japanese is an interesting question).
Furthermore, more than two ruby texts could be clearly useful in cases where,
for example, some 17th century japanese text is being compared to the current
kanji replacement, with the pronunciation for each and an english gloss.
Being able to actually use CSS table-row would have been nice.
Such multiplicitous annotations could still have been easily listed in square
brackets, for example, in a case where in-line text was required.
Many of Ruby's limitations might be due to its last revision being from 2001,
at a time when an implementations of the CSS2 spec may have been absent or
notably incomplete.
XHTML's modular nature should allow some kind of improvement on this limited
mechanism in the future.
Anyway, as of 2003-10, I've seen Mozilla display Ruby content perfectly (especially since v1.5). IE renders it remarkably badly, and Opera totally fails to execute the CSS.
A role-playing game in which players must master concepts of Japanese language and culture to gain in-game abilities. Not yet available, unfortunately, as of 2005-05.
Julius is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers. It currently supports Japanese, with about a 20k work vocabulary, and runs under Unix, with and older version for Windows.
There's source code (totally unsupported) for an exploratory C++/OpenGL kana-matching game (same consonant or vowel makes a pair) named ZKana in my public software area. It uses images from the (protected) kanji charts as textures, and in the snapshot す has just been picked.
いろはにほへど ちりぬるを
わがよたれぞ つねならむ
うゐのおくやま けふこえて
あさきゆめみじ ゑひもせず
色は匂へど 散りぬるを
我が世誰ぞ 常ならむ
有為の奥山 今日越えて
浅き夢見じ 酔ひもせず
いろはにおへど ちりぬるを
わがよたれぞ つねならん
ういのおくやま きょうこえて
あさきゆめみじ えいもせず
As flowers are brilliant but [inevitably] fall,
who could remain constant in our world? [No one could]
Today let us transcend the high mountain of transience,
and there will be no more shallow dreaming, no more drunkenness.
See the Heavenly Stems Wiki page for information on: 甲乙丙丁戊己庚辛壬癸
The best reference I've seen so far is The Kanji SITE, upon which the references below were based. Of course, since it's on a crippleware IIS webserver, you'll get the occasional "too many people" failure.
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If you have access to the authenticated areas on Talisman.Org (limited to keep bandwidth usage under control), you can see the full kanji JLPT charts, including small and large versions and black-on-white and black-on-transparent GIFs, with full linking for every kanji glyph to a detailed description.
Yasu recommends you bring some items that Americans take for granted but which Japanese might find quite unique, like A-1 Steak Sauce, candy like jellybeans or gummy bears, tortilla chips and salsa, or "that Tabasco sauce that isn't Tabasco" (we're pretty sure he means Cholula pepper sauce, which isn't sold in Japan and is thus very exotic). I think anything from your part of the world would make a good gift, and if your city or state is famous for something, a gift along those lines is a good idea. If the people you'll be visiting like coffee, you might consider a large bag of Starbucks beans, since it's quite expensive to buy here.
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