Welcome to the new Denshi Jisho. A complete rewrite and over half a year in the making (ok, half a year of odd weekend work). All parts of the site have been refined and improved so you can find that kanji or word even more easily and get on with your translation.
The most notable change is the addition of a kanji dictionary with a plethora of ways to find the right kanji. Accompanying it is a lean radical search — just click on the parts that are in the kanji you are looking for and the matching characters show up almost instantaneously, but make sure that you have a modern browser with Javascript turned on (Explorer 5.5+, Firefox, Safari, Opera).
The general usability has also been improved with slightly larger text, more cross-referencing between the different dictionaries and more convenient search features. My favourite being that wildcards and other search modifiers work from both English and Japanese input mode. This means that you don’t have to type 日本* to find words that begin with 日本. 日本＊ works perfectly fine.
With this major upgrade the URL scheme has changed a bit to allow for all the new features. But don’t worry, if you have linked to specific searches they will still work and redirect to the new scheme.
If you have any suggestions, comments or bug reports you can send me an e-mail at kim.ahlstrom@gmail.com or comment this post on the development blog, on which I will try to post regularly about what I’m working on to make Denshi Jisho even better. But I can’t make any promises about the development pace since this still is a hobby project.
Lastly, I’d like to thank Adrienne, Annie, Axel, Frans, Erik, Jacob, Max and the Catalyst team, without whose help this upgrade wouldn’t have happened.
