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bin+lib jisho

Jisho is a CLI tool & Rust library that provides a Japanese-English dictionary

6 releases

0.1.5 Feb 11, 2023
0.1.4 Jan 24, 2023
0.1.3 Mar 29, 2021
0.1.2 Nov 25, 2020

#1740 in Command line utilities

GPL-3.0+

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Jisho (辞書)

Jisho is a CLI tool & Rust library that provides offline access to EDICT, the excellent machine-readable Japanese-English dictionary project originally started by Jim Breen.

Use

Interactively:

$ jisho
> 積ん読
積ん読【つんどく】- buying books and not reading them, stockpiling books, tsundoku, books bought but not read
> International Space Station
国際宇宙ステーション【こくさいうちゅうステーション】- International Space Station

Looking up individual entries:

$ jisho 辞書
辞書【じしょ】- dictionary
$ jisho "quantum mechanics"
量子力学【りょうしりきがく】- quantum mechanics

Dependencies

~2.3–8MB
~153K SLoC