Patent ID: 8335680

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising: a display device; an input unit; a storage which includes: dictionary information that causes an entry word in a first language to correspond to explanatory information in a second language which is a language different from the first language, reading-kanji correspondence information that causes a kanji character in the second language to correspond to a reading in the second language, and kanji correspondence information that causes a kanji character in the first language to correspond to a kanji character in the second language; a processor which accepts the input of a reading in the second language via the input unit, reads a kanji character in the second language corresponding to the input reading in the second language from the reading-kanji correspondence information stored in the storage, reads a kanji character in the first language corresponding to the read kanji character in the second language from the kanji correspondence information stored in the storage and performs display control of the read kanji character on the display device, and reads explanatory information that uses a character string including the kanji character in the first language subjected to display control as an entry word from dictionary information stored in the storage and performs display control of the explanatory information on the display device; wherein the storage further includes multiple kanji correspondence information that causes a plurality of kanji kanji characters in the first language to correspond to a plurality of kanji characters in the second language, and the processor reads a kanji character in the second language corresponding to the reading in the second language input via the input unit from the reading-kanji correspondence information stored in the storage and determines whether the kanji character in the second language is in the plurality of kanji characters included in the multiple kanji correspondence information stored in the storage, reads the plurality of kanji characters in the first language corresponding to the plurality of kanji characters in the second language from the multiple kanji correspondence information and performs display control of the read kanji characters on the display device, if it has been determined that the kanji character in the second language is in the plurality of kanji characters included in the multiple kanji correspondence information, and reads a kanji character in the first language corresponding to the kanji character in the second language from the kanji correspondence information stored in the storage and performs display control of the read kanji character on the display device, if it has been determined that the kanji character in the second language is not in the plurality of kanji characters included in the multiple kanji correspondence information.