Japanese-English Dictionary of Proper Nouns

JEP

日英固有名詞辞典

日本語

日中韓辭典研究所
©2008-2012 The CJK Dictionary Institute, Inc.

Basic Specifications

Overview

We maintain the world's largest Japanese-English bilingual bidirectional databases of proper nouns. These are used by some of the world major IT companies for a wide variety of applications, including:

machine translation (MT)
information retrieval (IR)
morphological analysis (MA)
electronic dictionaries (ED)
input method editors (IME)
named entity recognition (NER)

See also our Comprehensive Database of Japanese Name Variants, which contains millions of name variants.

Coverage

Currently coverage is 1.4 million entries, as shown below:

1. Japanese surnames
153,000

2. Japanese given names
400,000

3. Japanese and Western place names
200,000

4. Western personal names
50,000

5. Companies/organizations
600,000

6. Famous people
30,000

These include various attributes such as readings in hiragana and several romanization systems, semantic classification codes and frequency rankings.

FIELD DESCRIPTION

Field #

Field Name

Description

Preceded by the following prefixes:

S	Surname
G	Given name
P	Place name

RANK

Relative frequency ranking based on occurrences in various sources.

TYPE

The main type codes are shown below. For a more detailed list, click here.

F	Female given name
G	Given name (first name, male or female)
M	Male given name
S	Surname

NAME

Japanese name in kanji/kana

READING

Reading in hiragana

ENGLISH

English equivalent based on Hepburn romanization. Available in eight different romanization systems described at Japanese name variants.

Sample of Given Names
ID	RANK	TYPE	NAME	READING	ENGLISH
G030000	000521	M	卯太郎	うたろう	Utaro
G045000	037988	FM	加名見	かなみ	Kanami
G052500	037988	M	海修	かいしゅう	Kaishu
G067500	009317	F	季絵	きえ	Kie
G115824	000521	M	光喜	こうき	Koki
G120000	037988	M	好洋	こうよう	Koyo
G122581	089487	M	幸喜	さちき	Sachiki
G122582	089487	M	幸喜	ゆきのぶ	Yukinobu
G122583	082511	M	幸喜	ゆきよし	Yukiyoshi
G122584	003085	M	幸喜	こうき	Koki
G125570	089487	M	弘輝	ひろてる	Hiroteru
G125571	037988	M	弘輝	こうき	Koki
G125812	037988	M	弘樹	こうき	Koki
G125813	025198	M	弘樹	こうじゅ	Koju
G125816	001693	M	弘樹	ひろき	Hiroki
G180000	037988	M	舜寛	しゅんかん	Shunkan
G217500	025198	M	政武	まさたけ	Masatake
G315000	037988	M	文朝	ぶんちょう	Buncho
G345000	003606	M	勇一郎	ゆういちろう	Yuichiro
G362356	005062	F	里見	さとみ	Satomi
G362686	032653	F	里美	りみ	Rimi
G362687	005062	FM	里美	さとみ	Satomi
G362688	089487	M	里美	さとよし	Satoyoshi
G362689	089487	F	里美	りび	Ribi
G387558	082511	FM	翔	つばさ	Tsubasa
G387559	373844	F	翔	なつる	Natsuru
G387560	373844	F	翔	やすら	Yasura
G387561	011693	FM	翔	しょう	Sho
G387562	015336	M	翔	かける	Kakeru
G387563	373844	M	翔	めぐる	Meguru

Sample of Surnames
ID	RANK	TYPE	NAME	READING	ENGLISH
S105000	036072	S	永福	ながふく	Nagafuku
S020000	018269	S	歌沢	うたざわ	Utazawa
S040000	036072	S	鎌垣	かまがき	Kamagaki
S007500	018269	S	蟻原	ありばら	Aribara
S045000	027721	S	久和	きゅうわ	Kyuwa
S113630	036072	S	橋瓜	はしづめ	Hashizume
S113625	027721	S	橋詰	はしつめ	Hashitsume
S113631	011691	S	橋詰	はしづめ	Hashizume
S113626	027721	S	橋爪	はしつめ	Hashitsume
S113632	011691	S	橋爪	はしづめ	Hashizume
S113634	027721	S	橋誥	はしづめ	Hashizume
S055000	023105	S	玄永	げんえい	Gen'ei
S055601	022164	S	幸喜	こうき	Koki
S061174	049291	S	幸喜	こんき	Konki
S148096	047919	S	幸喜	ゆきよし	Yukiyoshi
S057500	018269	S	国場	こくば	Kokuba
S120000	011691	S	七條	しちじょう	Shichijo
S140000	036072	S	宗沢	むねざわ	Munezawa
S125000	036072	S	舟原	ふなばら	Funabara
S037500	036072	S	勝木	かつぎ	Katsugi
S122500	000846	S	深田	ふかだ	Fukada
S135000	027721	S	水書	みずがき	Mizugaki
S052500	011691	S	倉尾	くらお	Kurao
S090000	010362	S	代田	だいた	Daita
S027500	049291	S	大東	おおひがし	Ohigashi
S113593	049291	S	端詰	はしづめ	Hashizume
S010000	001453	S	池野	いけの	Ikeno
S087500	010362	S	田戸	たと	Tato
S102500	000949	S	土橋	どばし	Dobashi
S066143	001145	S	里見	さとみ	Satomi
S066146	036072	S	里美	さとみ	Satomi