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CASIO Electronic Dictionary
Quick Guide (Ver.B)

The contents of this Quick Guide apply to the CASIO XD-SP 
and XD-GP Series Electronic Dictionaries. Most illustrations 
and screen shots show the XD-SP6700.

Hangul, Russian, Simplifi ed Chinese, and accented characters 
cannot be input on a model that does not include a dictionary 
that requires such characters. Input of the applicable characters 
becomes possible when optional software is installed.

Loading Batteries for the First Time

Before using your electronic dictionary, load two LR03 AAA-size 
alkaline batteries.

1

Remove the battery cover.

Pressing at the two 
points shown in the 
illustration, slide the 
cover in the direction 
indicated by the arrows.

2

 

Load two batteries.

Press the springs with the (–) ends.
Press the (+) ends down so the batteries are above the ribbons.
Make sure the (+) and (–) ends are facing correctly and that 
the springs are pressed straight down.

3

 

Pull the stylus out of 
the battery cover and 
then replace the battery 
cover.

4

 

Use the stylus to press 
the RESET button on the 
back of the dictionary.

Do not use a toothpick, 
lead pencil, or other 
breakable object. 

5

 

Unfold the electronic 
dictionary.

6

 

On the 

メインパネルコン

トラスト設定

 (Main Panel 

Contrast Adjustment) 
screen, use

 and

to

adjust display contrast. 
Then press

.

7

On the 

メインパネル調整

(Main Panel Adjustment) 
screen, use the stylus to 
touch the centers of the 
four cross marks.

Touching the center of the 
fourth cross will display 
the handwriting panel 
contrast adjustment 
screen.

8

On the 

手書きパネルコン

トラスト設定

 (Handwriting

Panel Contrast Adjustment)
screen, use 

 and 

 to 

adjust handwriting panel 
contrast. Then press 

.

9

On the handwriting panel,
use the stylus to touch 
the centers of the four 
cross marks.

10

  Touching the center of 

the fourth cross will 
display the 

メニュー

(MENU) screen.

If the 

本機はユーザー名

を登録することができま

...  (You can register 

a user name for this 
dictionary...) message 
appears instead of the 

メニュー

 screen, press 

.



Handwriting panel

Handwriting panel

Touch the center.

Touch the center.

Touch the center.

Touch the center.

Turning Power On and Off

1

 

Press the

key

to turn on power.

Power also turns 
on when you press 
a dictionary/mode 
key. 

2

 

Press 

 again to turn 

off power.

Power also turns on and 
off when you open and 
close the electronic 
dictionary’s panels.

General Guide

Handwriting Panel

For handwriting of characters for input. 
This panel also displays buttons that you 
can tap to perform various operations.

1

6

7

19

14 15

3

4

5

2

16

17

18

13

10

11 12

9

8

20

22

23

24

25

21

 1.  Dictionary/mode keys

Toggle between the initial screens of the two dictionaries/
modes assigned to each key.

 2. 

 Key

Toggles power on and off.

 3. 

 (Shift) Key

Shifts the keyboard. To use 

 , press and release it and 

then press the next key.

 4. 

 (Additional Search) (History) Key

Performs additional search. 
Press after 

 to access history data. 

 5. 

 (Text Size) (Layout) Key

Cycles through available screen text sizes.

Press after 

 to change the screen layout.

 6. 

 (Scroll) Keys

Scroll screen contents up and down.
Press after 

 to jump back or forward between 

defi nitions.

 7. 

 (Jump) (Guide) Key

Enables look up of a term on the currently displayed 
defi nition or explanation screen.
Press after 

 to view guide information. 

 8. 

【見出しメモ】

 (Headword Memo) Icon

Touch to affi x a 

midashi memo

 (headword memo) to a 

defi nition or explanation produced by a search.

 9. 

【戻る

/

リスト】

 (Back/List) Icon

Touch to back-step through previous operations.
Touch while a dictionary’s initial screen is on the display to 
return to the 

メニュー

 screen.  

Touch while a defi nition screen is on the display to switch to 
the list of terms, which includes the term whose defi nition you 
were viewing. 

10.

【訳

/

決定】

 (Translate/Select) Icon

Touch to execute a function or to select an on-screen item. 

11.

【認識】

 (Confi rm) Icon

Touch after inputting a character when inputting individual 
characters on the handwriting panel.

12.

音声

 (Audio) (Read) Key

Press to hear a reading by the voice of a native speaker of 
the applicable language. 
Press after 

 to hear a reading by synthesized voice.

13.

 (Back/List) Key

Press to back-step through previous operations.
Press while a dictionary’s initial screen is displayed to return 
to the 

メニュー

 screen. 

Press while a defi nition screen is on the display to switch to 
the list of terms, which includes the term whose defi nition you 
were viewing. 

14.

 (Translate/Select) Key

Executes a function or selects an on-screen item. 

15. Arrow Keys

Move the selection highlighting or cursor up, down, left, or 
right.
The left and right arrow keys move the cursor.
To adjust the audio volume, press 

 and then the 

(Increase) or 

 (Decrease) arrow key.




Main panel

Main panel

16.

 (Setup/Delete) Key

Deletes the character at the current cursor location.
Press after 

 to display a screen for changing the setup 

of the electronic dictionary. 

17. Letter Keys

Use these keys to enter letters and numbers. 

18.

 (Backlight) Key

Toggles the backlight on and off.

19.

【前見出し】・【次見出し】

 (Previous Headword/Next 

Headword) Icon

Tap to jump from the current term to the previous or next term.
The same result can be achieved by pressing 

 and 

then

or

.

20.

【ズーム】

 (Zoom) Icon

Tap to enlarge the characters of a defi nition or explanation 
screen. 

21.

【熟語】

 (Compound Terms) Icon

Tap to view compound terms that use the kanji you are 
currently viewing in the 

漢字源

 (Japanese kanji) dictionary.

22.

【成句複合語】

 (Idioms and Compound Expressions) Icon

Tap to view idioms and compound expressions that use the 
term you are currently viewing.

23.

【用例解説】

 (Samples and Explanations) Icon

Tap to view samples and explanations in dictionaries that 
include such information. 

24.

【暗記カード作成】

 (Create Flash Card) Icon

Tap to create a fl ash card. 

25.

【単語帳登録】

 (Add to Word List) Icon

Display a term, sample sentence or idiom screen and then 
tap this icon to add the term, sample sentence or idiom to 
the word list. 

Display Indicators

The following explains the meanings of display indicators.

This indicator: 

 Means this:

(Explanation)

There is an explanation for the word where the indicator is 
located.

(Compound Term)

The

漢字源

 (Japanese kanji) dictionary contains a 

compound term that includes the kanji character you 
are looking up.

 

(Idioms/Compound

Expression)

There is an idiom or compound term that uses the 
term you are looking up.

(Idiom)

There is an idiom that uses the term you are looking 
up. This indicator is displayed by certain mode 
when optional software is installed. 

(Sample)

There is a sample sentence that uses the term you 
are looking up.

Native speaker pronunciation is available for the 
contents to the right or below this indicator.

(True Voice)

Native speaker pronunciation is available.

(Reading)

Synthetic voice reading is available.

(Reading Search)

Readings are available for the English on the 
screen.

(English)

The language whose pronunciation is applied for 
readings.  

There is a term that contains the term you are 
viewing or there is related information about the 
term in the dictionary you are currently accessing.

(Jump)

Jump function in use

(History)

History function in use

(Zoom)

Display zoom in use

(Guide)

Guide function in use 

(Display All)

(Word Order)

(Continuous)

Indicates the display method when using 

例文検

 (sample sentence search) or 

成句検索

(idiom

search).

Keyboard Input

Use English input for unaccented alphabetic characters. 

See the following notes about other languages for other 
characters.

Alphabetic Characters

To input this:

Type this:

internet

?

~

Hangul

To input this:

Type this:

GGG


Chinese (Pinyin)

1

2

3

4

To input this:

Perform  this operation:

ü

Type (keyboard): 

V

Tap (Handwriting Panel): 

【一声 】

Type (Keyboard): 

Q

(Displayed as 1.)

Tap (Handwriting Panel): 

【二声 】

Type (Keyboard): 

W

(Displayed as 2.)

Tap (Handwriting Panel): 

【三声

Type (Keyboard): 

E

(Displayed as 3.)

Tap (Handwriting Panel): 

【四声 】

Type (Keyboard): 

R

(Displayed as 4.)

Tap (Handwriting Panel): 

【軽声 】

Type (Keyboard): 

P

 (Displayed as 0.)

ming2tian1
(

明天

)

【二声 】

T I A N

【一声 】

W T I A N

Q

Japanese

To input this:

Type this:

いんこ
みかん
さんぽ

 or

きょう
らっこ

or

えーる
とぅーるーず

German, French, Spanish and Italian

All alphabetic characters are input in lower-case, regardless of 
their normal capitalization.

For the German “ß”, input “ss”.
For other characters that normally include a diacritic, input the 
character without the diacritic. Example: “à” --> “a”, “ê” --> “e”, 
etc.
For the French “ç” input “c”, and for “œ”, input “oe”.
Input hyphenated terms as single words, without a hyphen. To 
look up “peut-être”, for example, input “peutetre”.
When inputting a term that consists of multiple words, input the 
words without any spaces. To look up “die Elbe”, for example, 
input “dieElbe”.

Russian

To input this:

Type this:

сласибо

Use the 

 key to input the characters shown below. 

Х →

+

,

Ъ →

+

,

Ж →

+

,

Э →

+

,

Б →

+

,

Ю →

+

,

Ё →

+

.

All of the above characters are input a lower-case.

Handwriting Input

Use the stylus to write characters on the handwriting panel and 
then tap 

【認識】

.

With some search methods, like 

単漢字を大きな手書き入力から

探す (漢字源)

, you can enter search terms using handwriting 

input only.

Character Input Mode

The indicators 
described below 
appear on the main 
panel to show 
the current input mode. Also note that the handwriting panel 
changes to two characters per screen or fi ve characters per 
screen in accordance with the input mode. 

Two Characters Per screen

Indicator

Supported Input Characters

Hiragana

Katakana

Kanji

Simplifi ed Chinese

Hangul

Two-character Handwriting Panel 

Rewrite button

Scroll buttons

Input area

Character cells



Indicator

Indicator

Five Characters Per screen

Indicator

Supported Input Characters

Alphabetic

Accented alphabetic

Russian

Numbers

Five-character Handwriting Panel 

Input area

Scroll buttons

Character cells

Rewrite button

Correcting Kanji Character Input

Example: After mistakenly inputting 

喜怒衰楽

 instead of

喜怒哀楽

Handwriting panel

Scroll buttons

Character cells

Main panel

Input fi eld

1

 

On the handwriting 
panel or in the input fi eld 
on the main panel, tap a 
character (

).

This displays up to 10 
possible candidates for the character. 
If there are too many characters to fi t, tap the scroll buttons 
to scroll.

2

 

If you fi nd the correct 
character among the 
candidates, tap it.

3

If you do not fi nd the correct character, tap

【書き直し】

(rewrite), rewrite the character on the handwriting panel 
and then tap 

【認識】

.

Tapping

【書き直し】

(Rewrite) while the character cells of 

the handwriting panel are blank (nothing input) will delete 
the character currently in the input fi eld of the main panel. 

Stylus Basics

When using the stylus to perform operations on the main panel, 
avoid applying excess pressure. Excess pressure can crack the 
main panel.
When using the stylus to perform an operation on the main panel, 
support the main panel from behind with your hand.

  

Main panel

Handwriting panel 

To select a category and initial screen items 

1

 

Press 

 to display the 

メニュー

 screen.

2

 

With the stylus, tap a 
category tab and then 
the dictionary/mode you 
want.

This will highlight the 
dictionary/mode.

3

 

Tap the highlighted dictionary/mode again to display 
its initial screen.

Instead of step 3, you also could tap 

【訳

/

決定】

 on the 

handwriting panel. 
Other operations you can perform on the main panel by 
tapping with the stylus are selecting a search option, 
selecting a term, and selecting a headword.
If a defi nition or explanation screen has additional 
information above or below, you can drag the screen 
with the stylus and scroll its contents and bring other 
information into view.

Search Functions

The following is an overview of some of the search functions.

Headword Search

This is the most basic type of search. Use it when you want to 
look up a term in a dictionary.

1

 

Display the initial screen of a dictionary/mode.

2

 

Use 

 and 

 to select 

見出し語検索

 (Headword 

Search).

3

 

Enter the term you want.

As you enter each 
character, the list of 
terms on the main panel 
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

4

 

Use 

 and 

 to move the highlighting to a term and 

then press 

【訳

/

決定】

to display its defi nition screen.

Sample Sentence Search/Idiom Search

You can use the following procedure to search for idioms 
containing a specifi c term when the initial screen of the mode 
you are in has a 

成句検索

 (idiom search) option. 

1

 

Display the initial screen of the dictionary/mode.

2

 

Use 

 and 

 to select 

成句検索

.

Select

例文検索

 (sample sentence search) to search for a 

sample sentence. 

3

 

Enter the term.

When inputting multiple words, separate them using the 
ampersand character (&), not spaces.
Example: get to 

 get&to

4

 

Press 

.

This displays a list of all 
idioms that contain the 
term.

5

 

Use 

 and 

 to move 

the highlighting to an 
idiom and then press 

 to display 

detailed information.

Jump Search

You can use jump search to jump to another location in the 
same dictionary or to another dictionary.

To jump in the same dictionary

1

When search results 
show items with a 
large arrow (

) or 

small arrow(

) jump 

symbol, press 

.

The

 indicator 

appears and the fi rst 
character on the screen 
becomes highlighted. 

2

 

Use the arrow keys to move the highlighting to the 
item you want and then press 

 to jump.

To jump to another dictionary

1

 

While the results of a search are displayed, press 

.

The

 indicator appears and the fi rst character on the 

screen becomes highlighted. 

2

 

Use the arrow keys to 
move the highlighting to 
a term and then press 

.

This displays a dictionary 
menu.

3

 

Use 

 and 

 to select 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 

 to jump.

Multi-dictionary Search 

Use the following procedure to search for a term across 
multiple dictionaries.

1

 

On the 

メニュー

 screen, 

select the 

便利な機能

(Useful Functions) tab 
and then select 

複数辞

書アルファベットで検

 (Alphabetic Multi-

dictionary Search).

You also could select 

数辞書ひらがなで検索

(Hiragana Multi-dictionary 
Search) or 

複数辞書漢

字で検索

 (Kanji Multi-

dictionary Search). 

2

 

On the search screen that appears, enter a term. 

Terms starting with the characters you have entered appear 
in a list on the display.
Each term also includes an indicator showing its dictionary.

3

 

Use 

 and 

 to move the highlighting to a term and 

then press 

 to display its defi nition screen.

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