Akasabi (rust) is a command line English/Japanese dictionary. It's heavily inspired by myougiden (but only the output format is lifted directly from it).

It works by parsing the EDICT dictionary file, and creating a searchable index with tantivy that allows searching by meaning, reading, or kanji.

tbd

To create the index, run akasabi index --path <path to JMdict_e.xml>. You can use --index to specify the path to the index, which currently defaults to ./tmp in the current directory.

Once the index is created, you can search it with akasabi search <query>. The query can be a word, a reading, or a meaning. The search is case-insensitive¹, and will return all matches that contain the query. You can also specify --field <field> to search only a specific field (meaning, reading, or kanji).

I hope to keep the dependency list short enought that maintaining this list is feasible. Currently, the dependencies are:

• clap: CLI argument parsing
• yansi: ANSI color codes
• tantivy: core search functionality
• env_logger: set log levels by environment variable
• anyhow: error handling
• flate2: decompress gzipped files (jmdict is distributed gzipped)
• itertools: iterator utilities
• reqwest: HTTP client for downloading jmdict (currently not fully implemented)
• wana_kana: romaji <-> kana conversion
• xml: XML parsing
• etcetera: get the user data directory (for the default index path)
• lindera: Japanese morphological analysis/tokenization
• tempfile: temporary file creation (used in tests only)

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

In addition, testdata/JMdict_e_test.gz is a small subset of JMdict_e.xml, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence (V4.0).

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