Touch Screen Operations
■
To select a dictionary
1
Touch the Quick Palette
【ホーム】（
Home
）
button to display the Home screen.
2
Touch
(Menu).
3
Touch a category.
• Touching a
category selects it.
• The currently
selected category
or dictionary will be indicated by a green cursor
(
■
or
).
4
Touch a
dictionary (icon).
• This displays the
initial screen of the
dictionary.
• Touching a
dictionary that has
a
indicator next
to it displays a
sub-list of dictionaries. Touch the dictionary you
want to select.
• If the menu screen has a
【次ページへ】
(Next page)
or
【前ページへ】
(Previous page) icon, you can
touch these icons to scroll between menu pages.
■
To select a headword or screen item
1
Enter characters. On the list that appears,
touch the term or screen item you want.
• This highlights the term or item.
2
Touch the highlighted term or item again.
• This displays the definition or explanation in the
case of a term, or the next screen in the case of
a screen item.
■
Scrolling the Screen
Flicking the screen at high speed will scroll one
screen, while touching and then swiping will scroll
one line.
Assigning Often-used
Dictionaries to the Home Screen
You can assign up to five often-used dictionaries
to the Home screen for quick and easy recall
whenever you need them.
To assign a dictionary to the Home
screen
1
Press
to display the Home screen.
2
Touch
(Menu).
3
Touch and hold the dictionary you want to
assign for about one second.
• Dictionaries are displayed on the screen in the
order they were assigned, from left to right. To
change the arrangement of dictionaries, delete
the ones currently registered and register them
again.
To select a dictionary
1
While the Home screen is displayed, touch
the dictionary you assigned to the Home
screen.
To remove a dictionary
1
While the Home screen is displayed, touch
and hold the dictionary you want to remove
for about one second.
2
Use
and
to select a dictionary
removal option, and then press
.
• To remove a single dictionary, select
選択中の登
録を解除
(1
件
) (Remove selected (1)).
• To remove all dictionaries you assigned, select
全ての登録を解除
(Remove all).
Launching a Search from the
Home Screen
You can input hiragana, kanji or alpha characters to
perform a Multi-Dictionary Search from the Home
Screen.
1
Press
.
• This displays the
Home screen.
2
Touch the search
method you want
to use:
日本語
(Japanese),
アル
ファベット
(alpha
character),
例文検
索
(Example Search),
成句検索
(Phrase
Search).
• This causes the cursor (_) to appear in the
search term input box. As long as nothing is
contained in the search term input box, you can
touch and select a different search method, if
you want.
• Touching
(Handwriting) displays the
handwriting input cells. For information about
handwriting input, see “Handwriting Input”.
• Touching
(Soft Keyboard) displays the soft
keyboard. For information about soft keyboard
input, see “Inputting with the Soft Keyboard”.
• Depending on your electronic dictionary model,
you may be able to look up other language
terms besides English.
3
Enter the term you want.
• Terms starting with the characters you have
entered appear in a list on the display. In the
case of
例文検索
(Example Search) and
成句検索
(Phrase Search), enter the characters you want
and then press
.
• Each term also includes an indicator showing
its dictionary.
4
Use
and
to move the highlighting to a
dictionary and term combination, and then
press
.
Launching a Search from a Dictionary
You can use any one of the five patterns shown
below to search for terms and sentences.
•
For details about the search patterns of each
dictionary, see the
収録辞典
(Included Dictionaries)
chapter in the
取扱説明書
(User's Guide) for your
electronic dictionary.
【パターン
1
】
(Pattern 1): Entering the
initial characters of the term you want to
find
The displayed list of search results changes as you
enter characters of the term you want to find.
Example: To look up the meaning of “tale” (
ジーニ
アス英和辞典
)
1
Use
and
to highlight
見出し語検索
(Headword Search).
2
Enter the term you
want.
• As you enter each
character, the list
of terms is updated
accordingly.
• When entering a
headword, you can
use the following wildcard characters.
Character
Represents
?
A single unknown character
~
A series of multiple unknown characters of
unknown length
3
Use
and
to move the highlighting to
a term, and then press
.
• This displays the definition screen.
【パターン
2
】
(Pattern 2): Entering all of the
terms you want to find
Enter the entire term you want to find and then
press
.
Example: To find the phrases that use the words
“get” and “to” (
ジーニアス英和辞典
)
1
Use
and
to highlight
成句検索
(Phrase
Search).
• Highlight
例文検索
(Example Search) to search
for an example.
2
Enter the term.
• When inputting multiple words, separate them
using the ampersand character (&), not spaces.
Example: get to
➡
get&to
Search method
Handwriting/
Soft Keyboard
3
Press
.
• This displays a list
of all phrases that
contain the terms.
4
Use
and
to move the highlighting to
a phrase, and then press
.
• This displays the detailed information screen.
【パターン
3
】
(Pattern 3): Searching
step-by-step through a series of titles
With some dictionaries, you need to perform
successive select and execute (by pressing
) operations until you arrive at the
information you need.
Example
：
To look up information about a world
heritage site
（
ブリタニカ国際大百科事典
）
After displaying the
ブリタ
ニカ国際大百科事典
initial
screen, touch the following
items on the screen:
分類か
ら探す
（
Category Search
）
→［
C
］
世界遺産
（
World Heritage Sites
）→［
B
］
アフリ
カ地域
（
Africa
）→
[C]
エジプト
(Egypt). This will display
a screen of detailed information about Egypt.
【パターン
4
】
(Pattern 4): Narrowing down
the search using multiple conditions
With this type of search, you can input multiple
keywords, terms, or other conditions.
Example: To look up the kanji
志
in
新漢語林
(Japanese Kanji Dictionary)
•
The kanji
志
has the radical
心
(
こころ
)
, and a total
of 7 strokes. This information can be used to look
up the kanji.
1
Highlight
単漢
字を読み
/
画数から
探す
(Single Kanji
Reading/Number
of Stroke Search)
and then press
.
• If a selection item has a letter at the beginning,
you can press the corresponding letter key to
execute the selection directly. In case of the
above, for example, you could simply press
.
2
Use
,
,
, and
to highlight the
部
首読み
(Radical Reading), input
こころ
(heart),
and then press
.
• This displays a list of applicable radicals.
3
Use
,
,
, and
to highlight
心
, and
then press
.
4
Use
,
,
, and
to highlight
総画数
(Total Strokes), and then enter 7.
• Use the number keys that appear on the screen
to input a number.
5
Press
.
• This displays a list of kanji characters that
satisfy the conditions.
6
Use
,
,
, and
to highlight
志
, and
then press
.
• This displays an explanation of the term.
【パターン
5
】
(Pattern 5): Touching a screen
item
You can perform a search simply by touching some
screen items with the stylus.
Example: To look up
ナスカ
(
ブリタニカ国際大百科事典
)
After displaying the
ブリ
タニカ国際大百科事典
initial screen, touch the
following items on the
screen:
地図から検索
(Map Search) (twice)
→
おもな世界遺産
(Main World
Heritage Sites)
(twice)
→
「南アメリカ」（
South
America
）
→
ナスカ
（
Nazca
）
• This will display an
explanation mini
window.
• Press
or touch the Quick Palette
【解説へ】
(Show Explanation) icon for a full screen view of the
explanation.
Mini window
• The number of times an item needs to be touched
before a mini window appears depends on the
headword.
Other Searches
Jump Search
You can use jump search to jump to another
location in the same dictionary or to another
dictionary.
■
To jump within the same dictionary
1
When search
results show items
with a large arrow
(
) or small
arrow (
) jump
indicator, press
.
•
appears and the first character that is the
jump target is highlighted.
• The highlighted jump target is one character for
Japanese and a word for English.
2
Use the arrow keys to move the highlighting to
an item to the right of a jump indicator
(
or
) and then press
to jump.
• Instead of the above procedure, you also can
perform the jump by touching the term to the
right of the arrow indicator.
• For some dictionaries only red text is displayed
without
or
.
■
To jump to another dictionary
Example: To look up “
話
” from the “tale” definition
screen by jumping from
ジーニアス英和辞典
(English-
Japanese Dictionary) to
明鏡国語辞典
(Japanese
Dictionary)
1
While the results of a search are displayed,
press
.
2
Use the arrow
keys to move the
highlighting to the
term you want to
look up, and then
touch the Quick
Palette
【選択】
（
Select
）
icon.
• This displays the dictionary menu screen.
3
Use
and
to highlight a
dictionary, and
then press
.
• This displays a list
of candidates.
4
Use
and
to move the highlighting to
the item you want, and then press
.
• After pressing
in step 1, tapping a
single character or term or dragging the stylus
across multiple characters or terms will search
for the headwords that match the highlighted
character(s) or word(s). If you highlight multiple
English words for an Example Search or Phrase
Search jump, only the first words you highlight
will be searched for.
• If
or an English term is shown on the jump
destination screen, you can play native speaker
pronunciation. For details, see “Native Speaker
Pronunciation”.
Mini Dictionary
You can use the Mini Dictionary to display a mini
window and look up an English or Japanese term
on a definition screen without leaving the definition
screen.
•
The Mini Dictionary uses partial extractions of
明鏡国
語辞典
(Japanese Dictionary) or
ジーニアス英和辞典
(English-Japanese Dictionary) content.
1
While a search result screen is displayed,
press
.
2
Use the arrow keys to move the highlighting
to the term you want to look up, and then
touch the Quick Palette
【ミニ辞書】
(Mini
Dictionary) icon.
• The Mini Dictionary mini window appears on
the screen.
• While the Mini Dictionary is displayed, tapping
a single character or term or dragging the
stylus across multiple characters or terms on
the screen will search the Mini Dictionary for
the headwords that match the highlighted
character(s) or word(s).
• To close the Mini Dictionary mini window,
press
or touch the mini window’s
button.
Displaying Detailed Information
Use the operations described here to view detailed
explanations and other information about looked
up words and terms.
Viewing Phrases, Compound
Expressions, and Compound Terms
If
(or
・
) or
is on
the screen, it indicates
that there is phrase,
compound expression,
or compound term
information available
for the term you are
viewing.
1
Touch the on-screen icon.
• This displays a list of applicable candidates.
• You can also display a list of candidates
by touching the Quick Palette
【成句複合語】
(Phrases/Compound Expressions) icon or
【熟語】
(Compound Terms) icon.
2
Touch the item you want to view to highlight
it and then press
.
• This displays the applicable details.
Viewing Examples and Explanations
If
or
is
on the display, it
means that example,
illustration, explanation,
or other information is
available.
1
Touch an on-screen icon.
• This displays the applicable details.
Pronunciation
You can use your electronic dictionary to listen
to readings (using native speaker pronunciations
or synthesized voices) of terms and sentences
you look up, and to record your own reading
and compare it with built-in readings by a native
speaker.
•
The pronunciation sounds from a built-in speaker.
Native Speaker Pronunciation
When
or an English term is on the display, it
means that native speaker pronunciation (TRUE
VOICE
®
) is available.
1
Press
.
2
On the Quick
Palette, touch the
【聞く】
(Listen) icon.
• If
was on the
display when you
performed the above step, it will become
highlighted (
). If
was not displayed,
an English term for which native speaker
pronunciation is available will become
highlighted.
• You can specify the number of repeats by
pressing the
【回数
】
(Repeat) icon on the Quick
Palette and then selecting the number of
repeats you want:
1
回
(1), 3
回
(3), 5
回
(5)
.
3
Press
.
• This will play the pronunciation of the term or
example sentence next to or under
, or of
the currently highlighted English term.
• If there are multiple
indicators or English
terms, use the arrow keys to highlight the one
you want and then press
.
4
To exit pronunciation, press
.
•
You also can play a pronunciation by touching
.
•
Note the following precautions concerning English terms.
- Proper pronunciation will not be produced for
language other than English.
- The pronunciation produced by the electronic
dictionary may not be correct if there is more than
one pronunciation for a term.
Recording Your Reading to Compare
with Native Speaker Reading
While
or an English term is displayed, you can
compare your reading with a native speaker reading.
1
Press
.
2
On the Quick Palette, touch the
【聞き比べ】
(Compare) icon.
• This causes
or an English term to become
highlighted.
• If there are multiple
indicators or available
English terms on the display, use the arrow
keys to move the highlighting to location
of the indicator or term you want to use for
pronunciation comparison.
3
Press
to play the native
speaker reading of
the term.
4
After playback is complete and
録音中
(Recording) appears on the screen,
read the same term or sentence into the
microphone.
• After you finish recording, press
.
• Recording time is one minute. Recording stops
automatically after one minute.
5
Use
and
to highlight
収録音声と聞き比
べ
(Compare with built-in reading), and then
press
.
• The native speaker reading and the reading you
recorded will play back in succession.
• To stop playback, press
.
• If you want to play them back again, repeat
step 5 of this procedure.
• To re-record pronunciation, select
もう一度録音
(Record again) and perform the procedure from
step 3.
6
Use
and
to highlight
聞き比べを終了
(Exit comparison), and then press
.
• Exiting a comparison operation will
automatically delete the reading you recorded.
• Pressing
returns to the definition
screen.
Synthesized Voice Readings
Synthesized voice readings of terms and examples
are available in seven languages: English, Spanish,
German, French, Italian, Chinese, and Korean.
•
Some dictionaries/modes do not support synthesized
voice readings.
•
Chinese reading can be selected for a Chinese
model electronic dictionary and Korean for a
Korean model electronic dictionary only. For other
models, these languages can be selected after the
applicable optional content is installed.
•
Pronunciation is not available for pinyin and
alphabetic notation Chinese, and for some kanji.
•
For Korean, only hangul terms can be read.
1
While a definition or explanation screen is
displayed, press
.
2
On the Quick
Palette, touch
the
【読み上げ】
(Read) icon.
• The first term or
example on the screen for which a
pronunciation is available will be highlighted.
3
Use
and
to highlight the term or
example whose pronunciation you want to
hear.
• You can also highlight a term or example by
touching it.
4
Press
.
• This will play the pronunciation of the term or
example.
5
To exit pronunciation, press
.
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