Meanings
- A comprehensive single-volume Japanese dictionary edited by Akira Matsumura and first published in 1988 by Sanseidō.
Although synonyms, tasogare and kawatare, the Daijirin informs us, took up a popular pseudodivision of labor: tasogare came to refer to the evening phenomenon and kawatare came to refer to its morning counterpart.
2000 January 17, Gerald Figal, Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society), Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 2232 more examples
Relatively recent dictionaries such as Sanseedoo gendai kokugo jiten (first published in 1988), Daijirin (1988), and Daijisen (1995) have included usage labels and supplemental notes from their first editions.[…]Daijirin’s notes concerning usage were also eliminated from its second edition, demonstrating that some revisions represent changes for the worse.
2004 October 28, Janet S. Shibamoto Smith, Shigeko Okamoto, Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People (Studies in Language and Gender), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 175More recently, websites such as Yahoo and Infoseek have begun to provide free Web dictionary services, in which major unabridged monolingual dictionaries such as Dai jirin^([sic]) (大辞林 233 000 entries) and Dai jisen^([sic]) (大辞泉 220 000 entries) can be accessed via the Web.
2005 November 24, Keith Brown, Ronald E. Asher, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 9676
Origin
Borrowed from Japanese 大辞林(だいじりん) (Daijirin, literally “Great Forest of Words”).
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