This article is from the Japanese FAQ, by TANAKA Tomoyuki tanaka@cs.indiana.edu and Olaf Meeuwissen olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp with numerous contributions by others.
This FAQ uses ASCII characters exclusively, so it's a bit tricky
to answer this question directly. One way out would be to
include ASCII `art' depicting the kana and/or kanji, but I feel
this takes up too much space. Instead, try Jeffrey Friedl's
gateway to EDICT at <http://www.wg.omron.co.jp/cgi-bin/j-e/>.
You don't need any Japanese capabilities to use it.
Note that there are mirror sites in California at
<http://www.itc.omron.com/cgi-bin/j-e/> and Canada at
<http://enterprise.ic.gc.ca/cgi-bin/j-e/>
 
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