CoJaK

Version 1.0

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

This version of CoJaK integrates the following projects:

CCDICT, the Chinese character dictionary (version 4.2)
CEDICT, the Chinese/English dictionary (version January 23, 2003)
KANJIDIC, the Kanji dictionary (version September 1, 2003)
EDICT, the Japanese/English dictionary (version August 19, 2003)
ENGDIC, the Korean/English dictionary (version 0.4)
The Lucene search engine (version 1.2 - with modified Chinese Analyzer by Yiyi Sun)

All these projects have their own licenses, so make sure you check them before making non-personal use of any information that CoJaK presents to you. The author of CoJak cannot be responsible for your violation of these licenses. Keep in mind that CoJaK required about one week of work by one person, while the dictionaries have been brewing for years, involving hundreds of people and uncountable hours in front of computer screen. All involved have lovingly given the product of their labor to the public. Please do not abuse this trust!

How to Use It

You can choose between searching in just one Asian language, or in all three. The top box is for typing in characters (Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja) using the input method of your operating system. The second box is for typing in alphabet scripts. The third is for English, and the last is for index information.

Typing in more that one box will add more restrictions to the search (a logical "and").

You can substitute "?" for single letters or numbers in the search. For example, searching for Pinyin "han?" will find all tones of han: han1, han2, han3, han4, han5. Use "*" for more than one letter. For example, searching for English "rad*" will find radish, radio, etc.

You can lookup characters in the result. Double click on the character column, and then drag the mouse pointer across the character or characters you want to look up.

Note that becase a number of dictionaries are integrated, duplicate information may appear. For example, single characters are defined in the Chinese character dictionary, and also in the Chinese word dictionary. Results from the Chinese character dictionary will include more information.