anyone no how to search for kanji because im trying to ready a book but since its a image file i… - Feed Post by wolfgirl
anyone no how to search for kanji because im trying to ready a book but since its a image file i can search for the meaning via copy and paste. any ideas
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Are you able to type Japanese on your computer? Like with using Google Japanese Input.
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/japaneseinput/eula.html
You can type one of the readings of the kanji in hiragana, then press SPACE to bring up the conversion list of kanji to convert the hiragana into.
Or there is the "Hand Writing" input mode, where you can draw the kanji with your mouse, and it shows you a list of closest matching kanji to what you drew.
And most dictionary software and sites let you pick from a list of radicals/components of the kanji, to narrow down which kanji it is you are searching for, like this popular Englist-Japanese dictionary site:
http://jisho.org- Oh yeah, try the "Dictionary" link here on this site, on the left side the page. This takes you to a feature where you can search for kanji by drawing it. ^^
http://japaneseclass.jp/dictionary 
KanjiTomo is a good program for that. http://kanjitomo.net/
It can read kanji from images and show all the possible readings. It works pretty well, although it can be a bit frustrating at times because of how the mouse over feature works, and it can have some trouble detecting difficult kanji. But it mostly works and I still haven't found anything better.
どうもありがとうございました。i really appreciate it
Familiarize yourself with kanji's radicals. If you can make out one or two radicals, you can use an electronic dictionary, app or website (like http://jisho.org/#radical), highlight the radicals you recognize, and search for the kanji among the results with the same radicals.- And I'm blind, as my suggestion was already mentioned. Delete/ignore
Protip: If you're as lazy as I am, use Google translate. Not thru computer website, but thru the usage of phone apps be it Android or iPhone.
When you open the Google translate apps, you'll see there's 3 icon. A camera, a microphone and squiggly lines.
The camera can be used to capture image, and translate the words captured.
Microphone is used to speak words or sentence so that it'll translate.
Squiggly lines is for writing the Kanji or Kana.
I'd use the camera. Just take a picture, let it scan, highlight the text that needed to be translate, and voila, you got the translation. Provided it's not perfect, but it's good enough for lazy procrastinators like me.
You can use jisho.org
