Excerpt from A Japanese and English Dictionary: With an English and Japanese Index It has also been attempted to designate the part of speech to which each word belongs. This with the native words is not a matter of much diffi culty, but with the Chinese is impossible in most cases, as the same word may be viewed as a noun, verb, or adjective, according to it various relations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.