Thread: Looking up more than 4 characters/words on the kindle in dictionary
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Old 09-09-2019, 06:19 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
For more than 4 words, you can use Translate feature (if kindle is connected to internet). It is not clear to me why you’d expect a good dictionary result even with 3 or 4 words, as an arbitrary phrase is not likely to appear in a dictionary.
There are a lot of 2 word kindle English dictionary entries. The first post implies that Japanese has a lot of units more than 4 words (characters) long. Whether any dictionaries reflect that, I do not know. The question seems to be whether this is a dictionary deficiency or a software bug.
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