jBrowse -- Dictionary.

When you press the button on the jBrowse toolbar, the dictionary appears.

Control by control, the dictionary window offers you the following delights:

Search Term: Enter any string here to search for it in the dictionary. There is no need to press 'enter'.

Search Type Exact: If this button is checked, then only entries containing an exact match for the given string are returned.

Search Type Initial: If this button is checked, then entries that contain a word that starts with the search term are returned.

Search Type Kanji: If this button is checked, jBrowse first finds all the kanji in the search term. It then returns all the words that contain any of these kanji (which can be a very large number of words).

Interpret Romaji as English: If this button is checked, then a search term consisting of Roman characters is considered to be an English word.

Interpret Romaji as Katakana: If this button is checked, then a search term consisting of Roman characters is translated into katakana, and the resulting katakana word is searched for. This is for the benefit of users who cannot input Japanese characters. To specify the double-vowel mark in katakana (the long horizontal dash), enter a hyphen. To specify the 'n' character, enter 'n' followed by a single apostrophe. Thus:
The katakana word for 'corn' is represented by ko-n'.
The katakana word for 'singer' is represented by shin'ga-.

Interpret Romaji as Hiragana: If this button is checked, then a search term consisting of Roman characters is translated into hiragana, and the resulting katakana word is searched for. This is for the benefit of users who cannot input Japanese characters. To specify the 'n' character, enter 'n' followed by a single apostrophe. Voiced 'tsu' is represented 'dzu'. Thus:
'Tsuzuku', to continue, is represented by tsudzuku
'Annaisho', a guidebook, is represented by an'naisho

Only Show First 50 Records: On slow machines, it can be quite annoying to accidentally search for something that has thousands of matches. Keep this button checked to make sure that only a reasonable number are displayed.

The Output List: A list of matching dictionary entries, with English definitions on the right and Japanese words on the left. Kanji words will be accompanied by hiragana.