Assessing JMDict Kanji I have extracted all Kanji entries from JMDict and placed them in 6 manageable files for most editors each of 6 files has about 30 000 Kanji entries are space separated and can be seen in a browser by using the JMDict link at tested on updated Firefox Inspection of the 6 files suggest that great many entries will be irrelevant for a student of literature just a great deal would be irrelevant for a student of engineering so optimization can be considered I may look at MongoDB first Parsing and extraction to date has been with the Curl XML library from Curl com within the Curl IDE The Japanese Curl site is G Robert Shiplett