三省堂 超級クラウン中日辞典・クラウン日中辞典 2.4.3

This application functions as a comprehensive electronic dictionary for iOS devices, integrating Sain-sho's renowned "Super Crown Chinese-Japanese and Japanese-Chinese Dictionaries." It combines the Chinese-Japanese Dictionary and the Japanese-Chinese Dictionary to serve both learners and professional users alike.

The app includes a specially optimized Chinese font, "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Simplified," which is compatible with iOS's default Hiragino fonts. It supports handwriting input for nearly all characters and compounds, facilitating searches through handwritten recognition. All content is embedded within the device, allowing offline access to all features without an internet connection.

Designated as a universal application, it operates seamlessly across iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices, supporting iOS 11 and later versions. It also offers advanced functionalities such as drag-and-drop, Slide Over, and Split View for current iOS devices.

• Features:
• Inclusion of the "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Simplified W3/W6" font for high-quality content rendering.
• Handwriting recognition for character and compound search.
• Audio recordings for all characters and compounds.
• Extensive supplementary features like indexed tiles for characters, compounds, and radical references, along with numerous appendices such as end-of-book supplements.
• Practical functions including tap navigation via "Sottolette Jump®," Japanese example search, and bookmarking by tapping.
• User interface optimized specifically for iPhone and iPad environments.

Overview of functionalities:

• Content display:
• • Includes "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Simplified W3/W6."
  • Fast rendering using proprietary layout engine.
  • Tap-navigation ("Sottolette Jump®").
  • Pronunciation playback.
  • In-entry search capabilities.
  • Jumping to parts of entries via menu navigation.
  • Bookmarking example sentences and idioms by tapping.

• Screen navigation:
• • Display previous/next pages from menus.
  • Swipec gestures for moving between entries or returning.
  • Long-press the back button to return to specific hierarchical levels.

• Search functions (Chinese-Japanese / Japanese-Chinese / example usage):
• • Supports prefix matching, suffix matching, and exact matching (applicable only to Chinese-Japanese/Japanese-Chinese).
  • Pattern search (for Chinese-Japanese only).
  • Handwritten input for Chinese and Japanese characters.
  • Search using Pinyin with tone marks (0-4).
  • Search via square pinyin codes.
  • Pull-to-clear feature for search input.

• Bookmarks:
• • Ordered by reading sequence, date, or custom arrangement.

• History management:
• • Display history and search history logs.

• Additional features:
• • Index functions showing radicals, characters, and parts of speech in tile layouts similar to large dictionaries such as Daijirin.
  • End-of-book supplements including Chinese language overview, conversational expressions, business communication examples, among others.

The application also provides guidance on how to utilize both the Chinese-Japanese and Japanese-Chinese dictionaries effectively. Users can customize settings such as color schemes, fonts (Japanese Mincho or Gothic styles), text sizes, sound volume, and more. Features like iCloud synchronization of bookmarks, priority to Chinese keyboard input, full-screen mode, support for Retina displays—including Retina HD—multi-tasking functionalities like copy & paste—3D Touch quick actions—and Peek & Pop are all incorporated to enhance usability on compatible devices. Furthermore, Slide Over and Split View support on iPad enables multi-window operation. The app extension allows integration directly within Safari and other applications for seamless searching across platforms.

The core content comprises two main dictionaries:

Super Crown Chinese-Japanese Dictionary:

This dictionary extensively covers a broad spectrum of subjects from everyday language to specialized terminology used in politics, economics, medicine, IT, among others. It utilizes a Chinese corpus derived from three years of articles from major newspapers. Features include complete coverage of 7,000 common Chinese characters, detailed information on radicals and stroke counts, part-of-speech tags for entries and headwords (including derivatives), abundant cross-references like synonyms and antonyms—totaling approximately 90,000 entries (10,000 headwords and 80,000 compounds)—and audio pronunciation data for all entries.

Crown Japanese-Chinese Dictionary:

This dictionary contains around 40,000 words essential for daily life with approximately 70,000 diverse usage examples. Japanese headwords are supplemented with English translations. Notable features include distinctions for homographs in Chinese-Japanese (with about 700 mini-columns providing comparison explanations), practical appendices with over 460 scenario-based business conversation examples and model business letter templates—making it suitable for both learners and professionals seeking comprehensive reference material.

"Hiragino Kaku Gothic Simplified" Font:

This font is manufactured by Dai Nippon Screen Manufacturing Co., Ltd., which is notably the first Japanese font vendor to receive certification under China's national standard GB18030-2000. The font ensures high-quality text rendering suitable for professional applications in simplified Chinese contexts (more info here).

Sony Hiragana® Recognition Engine:

The app incorporates PUX Corporation’s handwriting recognition technology "RakuHira®," which is a registered trademark of Panasonic Corporation (details here). This engine provides efficient recognition of handwritten characters in both Chinese and Japanese inputs to facilitate quick searches and improved user experience.