Daijirin

English

A copy of the third edition of the Daijirin.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 大辞林(だいじりん) (Daijirin, literally “Great Forest of Words”).

Pronunciation

• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.d͡ʒiː.ɹɪn/
• (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.d͡ʒi.ɹɪn/

• Hyphenation: Dai‧ji‧ren

Proper noun

Daijirin or the Daijirin

1. A comprehensive single-volume Japanese dictionary edited by Akira Matsumura and first published in 1988 by Sanseidō.
   • 2000 January 17, Gerald Figal, Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society), Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 223:

     Although synonyms, tasogare and kawatare, the Daijirin informs us, took up a popular pseudodivision of labor: tasogare came to refer to the evening phenomenon and kawatare came to refer to its morning counterpart.

   • 2004 October 28, Janet S. Shibamoto Smith, Shigeko Okamoto, Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People (Studies in Language and Gender), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 175:

     Relatively recent dictionaries such as Sanseedoo gendai kokugo jiten (first published in 1988), Daijirin (1988), and Daijisen (1995) have included usage labels and supplemental notes from their first editions. […] Daijirin’s notes concerning usage were also eliminated from its second edition, demonstrating that some revisions represent changes for the worse.

   • 2005 November 24, Keith Brown, Ronald E. Asher, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 9676:

     More recently, websites such as Yahoo and Infoseek have begun to provide free Web dictionary services, in which major unabridged monolingual dictionaries such as Dai jirin^[sic] (大辞林 233 000 entries) and Dai jisen^[sic] (大辞泉 220 000 entries) can be accessed via the Web.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Daijirin.

See also

• Daijisen

 

Japanese

Romanization

Daijirin

1. Rōmaji transcription of だいじりん