Kojien

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Kōjien ( Japanese 広 辞 苑 , in German: Great Garden of Words ) is a one-volume dictionary of the Japanese language published by Iwanami Shōten . It was first published in 1955, roughly comparable to the German-language Duden . In 2007, 11 million copies of the dictionary were sold and in 2018 the seventh edition was published.

Since 1993 there have also been editions on CD.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helen Baroni and David Bialock, Words: Japanese Dictionaries , Columbia University bibliography., 2005
  2. ↑ Asienspiegel, Kōjien: The Japanese Bible. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .