Here you can find my builds of JPWce for Windows and DS.
Thanks to them, I could learn Japanese .
Here are the sources of JWP(ce) software adaptation for Nintendo DS.
Back 2007, I was learning Japanese language, and wanted something in order to easily translate Japanese kanjis or Japanese words.
As Japanese dictionary/kanji learning software available on DS and pocket translator devices are designed for kids (too simple) or Japanese native people (no way to input kanjis other than using kana, etc), I decided to build my own dictionary on my DSlite.
And as I use JWPce almost everyday, I naturally wanted to add a features of JPWce I find useful, such as :
- Search Kanji by radical.
- Edict dictionary format.
- Display meaning of a single kanji.
- Other (?)
- DS-oriented GUI, designed in XML format.
- JIS/S-JIS/Unicode text formats support.
- Search Kanji by radical.
- Edict dictionary format.
- Index support on dictionaries, allowing fast searching.
- Wnn kanji input, but only input from kana available.
- JStroke kanji input.
- Clipboard support.
- Messy source code
![]() JWPds, running on my DSlite |
![]() Kanji stroke input |
![]() Kanji wnn input |
![]() Kanji radical input |
![]() Japanese word search results |
Example 1 : want to know the meaning of 月 kanji ? Just enter it as you would write it on paper, and its meaning is displayed on DS top screen .
(Well, "as you would write it on paper" means that stroke order MUST be respected ... so it's not very useful for complex kanjis )
Example 2 : want to know the meaning of 殻 kanji, but only know its reading ? Just enter its kana reading, and the meaning of its kanji is displayed on DS top screen .
(Well, it suppose you know the reading of Japanese hiraganas ... sorry I was too lazy to add romaji input )
Example 3 : want to know the meaning of 神主 word, but only know its reading ? Just enter its kana reading, convert it with wnn feature, enter the kanjis in edict page, select which dictionary you want to use and press "JPN→" button.
After few seconds, translation results are displayed .
(Well, it took 17 seconds in order to search in 3 dictionaries, so you need to be patient ... or grab JWPds source code and improve its search engine
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- devkitpro team.
- moonlight, moonshell author.
- Stephen Chung, JWP author.
- Glenn Rosenthal JWPce author.
- aze.
- Other people I forgot to mention.
I'm using JWPce software on a daily basis for several years, and thanks to its open source nature, I could make some slight changes to it in order to satisfy my needs.
So please find here my version of JWPce
- Kanji meaning in French (my native language)grabbed from French kanjidict project.
- Kanjis with similar looking, grabbed from kanji.free.fr.
- Glenn Rosenthal, for making JWPce, and releasing its sources : http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html.
- Vladimir Lazunin, for adding Unicode support to JWPce : http://lazunin.com/jwpceu_en.html.