Wordtank G50
The Wordtank G50 was the flagship model of the Wordtank line of Japanese dictionary">Japanese language">Japanese dictionary by Canon before it was replaced by the Wordtank G55, which was again superseded in capability by the later G70. It was introduced in May 2004.
Features
The Wordtank G50 is a bidirectional electronic dictionary, integrating both Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionaries. It also contains a standard Japanese dictionary and an abridged version of the Oxford English Dictionary. In addition, there is a kanji dictionary, with several thousand of the kanji having stroke order animations available. The G50 was the first electronic dictionary to feature stroke order animations, making it useful to students of the Japanese language who are learning kanji. The G50 also includes a katakana dictionary, a Japanese reverse dictionary, and an illustration dictionary.Although the G50's feature set, particularly its variety of dictionaries, is extensive, it lacks stylus input and sound output, which are available on some competing models. It also lacks any furigana help for kanji, this mean that if you want to translate a word from English to Japanese you will only get the translation in Chinese characters. No translation with Hiragana is extremely unhelpful for non-Japanese.