The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary

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Author	Andrew N. Nelson, John H. Haig
Language	English-Japanese
Subject	Japanese-English character dictionary
Publisher	C. E. Tuttle Co.
Publication date	15 September 1997
Publication place	United States of America
Media type	Print
Pages	1616
ISBN	9780804820363
Dewey Decimal	495.6/321[1]
LC Class	PL679 .H33 1997

The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary (新版ネルソン漢英辞典, Shinpan Neruson Kan-Ei jiten) is a kanji dictionary published with English speakers in mind. It is an updated version of the original dictionary authored by Andrew N. Nelson, The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary. The primary change in the new version is the adoption of the traditional 214 Kangxi radicals as the dictionary's main indexing method. The dictionary also features two additional indices: the Universal Radical Index and the on-kun index.

The dictionary uses rōmaji throughout. On-yomi readings of the kanji are denoted by small caps and kun-yomi by italics. Okurigana are separated by parentheses.

The New Nelson contains about 7,000 entries, many of which are actually variant characters. Every character has index numbers into the Morohashi dictionary and the Japanese JIS X 0208 standard if they exist. All characters are prioritized by their Jōyō simplifications, however traditional forms are provided for every one. Non-standard simplifications are not included in the variants of a character, however those characters do point to the main entry.