gjiten1

Usage

Overview

gjiten is a Japanese dictionary for the Gnome Desktop. It also has a kanji dictionary; any combination of stroke number, radicals and search key can be used for kanji lookups. Requires dictionary files in edict format and a working X Input Method (e.g. kinput2) for Japanese input.

This manpage only explains the command line options. You should be able to access the complete documentation from the Help menu.

Options

-c and -v are convenient for fast lookups via keyboard shortcuts.

-k

Same as --kanjidic

--kanjidic

Only show the KanjiDic window on startup.

-w WORD

Same as --word-lookup=WORD

--word-lookup=WORD

Look up WORD on startup.

-l KANJI

Same as --kanji-lookup=KANJI

--kanji-lookup=KANJI

Look up Kanji on startup in KanjiDic.

-c

Same as --clip-kanji

--clip-kanji

Look up kanji from the clipboard.

-v

Same as --clip-word

--clip-word

Look up word from the clipboard.

--version

Prints the version of gjiten