GJITEN(1)

💖 GJITEN — the Japanese dictionary for Gnome, bestie edition 💖

gjiten(1) · from the General Commands Manual · okay so let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

gjiten — a Japanese dictionary for Gnome, and honestly? iconic.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gjiten [ option ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so gjiten is a Japanese dictionary for the Gnome Desktop — but that's not even the whole story, because she ALSO comes with a kanji dictionary. 🫶 And the way that you can mix and match stroke number, radicals and search key however you want for kanji lookups?? lowkey a slay.

Two things she needs from you though, no cap:

• dictionary files in edict format
• a working X Input Method (like kinput2) so you can actually type Japanese

ngl this manpage is only doing the command line options. The full documentation lives in the Help menu — go look, it's giving thorough 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

so real talk: -c and -v are the ones you want for fast lookups via keyboard shortcuts. main character energy.

• -k — same as --kanjidic
• --kanjidic — only show the KanjiDic window when she starts up. nothing else, just the kanji. periodt.
• -w WORD — same as --word-lookup=WORD
• --word-lookup=WORD — look up WORD right on startup 🍓
• -l KANJI — same as --kanji-lookup=KANJI
• --kanji-lookup=KANJI — look up KANJI on startup, over in KanjiDic ✨
• -c — same as --clip-kanji
• --clip-kanji — look up kanji straight from the clipboard 📋
• -v — same as --clip-word
• --clip-word — look up a word straight from the clipboard 📋
• --version — prints the version of gjiten 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so… yeah. there's a BUGS file with the list of bugs. but — and this is so funny — the TODO file is more likely to actually contain them 😭🙈.

please contact me if you encounter any bugs, fr fr. I want to know. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• xjdic(1)

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

Botond Botyanszki — boti@rocketmail.com

and that's the whole vibe, bestie. this page is from the General Commands Manual, dated 20 Jun 2002, and it's the GJITEN(1) page. iykyk 💅✨🦋🎀