Halpern: The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary. Bound in softcover 
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• Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary. Bound in softcover
• Jack Halpern, editor in chief
• 1060 pages. 2002. The Dictionary answers the urgent need for an easy-to-use kanji dictionary compact enough to be easily carried around, yet detailed enough to satisfy the practical needs of the beginning and intermediate learner.

• 2,230 entry characters, including all the kanji in the Joyo and Jinmei Kanji lists
• 41,000 senses for 31,300 words and word elements show how each character contributes to the meanings of compounds
• 1,200 homophones with core meanings explain differences between closely related characters
• 386 variant forms used in prewar literature and in names
• 1,945 stroke order diagrams show you how to write each kanji stroke by stroke
• 7,200 character readings, including name readings
• Over 2,000 cross-references and five appendixes give instant access to a mass of useful reference data