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CASIO Electronic Dictionary
Quick Guide
The contents of this Quick Guide apply to the CASIO XD-SP
and XD-GP Series Electronic Dictionaries. Most illustrations
and screen shots show the XD-SP6600.
Loading Batteries for the First Time
Before using your electronic dictionary, load two LR03 AAA-size
alkaline batteries.
1
Remove the battery cover.
Pressing at the two
points shown in the
illustration, slide the
cover in the direction
indicated by the arrows.
2
Load two batteries.
Press the springs with the (–) ends.
Press the (+) ends down so the batteries are above the ribbons.
Make sure the (+) and (–) ends are facing correctly and that
the springs are pressed straight down.
3
Pull the stylus out of
the battery cover and
then replace the battery
cover.
4
Use the stylus to press
the RESET button on the
back of the dictionary.
Do not use a toothpick,
lead pencil, or other
breakable object.
5
Unfold the electronic
dictionary.
6
On
the
メインパネルコン
トラスト設定
(Main Panel
Contrast Adjustment)
screen, use
and
to
adjust display contrast.
Press
(Set).
7
On the
メインパネル調整
(Main Panel Adjustment)
screen, use the stylus to
touch the centers of the
four cross marks.
Touching the center of
the fourth cross displays
the handwriting panel
contrast adjustment
screen.
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On
the
手書きパネ
ルコントラスト設定
(Handwriting Panel
Contrast Adjustment)
screen, use
and
to
adjust handwriting panel
contrast. Press
(Set).
9
On the handwriting panel,
use the stylus to touch
the centers of the four
cross marks.
10
Touching the center of
the fourth cross displays
the
メニュー
(MENU)
screen.
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Touch the center.
Touch the center.
Touch the center.
Touch the center.
Turning Power On and Off
1
Press
the
key
to turn on power.
Power also turns
on when you press
a dictionary/mode
key.
2
Press
again to turn
off power.
Power also turns on and
off when you open and
close the electronic
dictionary’s panels.
General Guide
Handwriting Panel
For handwriting of characters for input.
This panel also displays buttons that you
can tap to perform various operations.
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1. Dictionary/mode keys
Toggle between the initial screens of the two dictionaries/
modes assigned to each key.
2.
Key
Toggles power on and off.
3.
(Shift) Key
Shifts the keyboard. To use
, press and release it and
then press the next key.
4.
(Additional Search) (History) Key
Performs additional search.
Press after
to access history data.
5.
(Text Size) (Layout) Key
Cycles through available screen text sizes.
Press after
to change the screen layout.
6.
(Scroll) Keys
Scroll screen contents up and down.
Press after
to jump back or forward between
defi nitions.
7.
(Jump) (Guide) Key
Enables look up of a term on the currently displayed
defi nition or explanation screen.
Press after
to view guide information.
8.
【見出しメモ】
(Headword Memo) Icon
Touch to affi x a
midashi memo
(headword memo) to a
defi nition or explanation produced by a search.
9.
【戻る
/
リスト】
(Back/List) Icon
Touch to back-step through previous operations.
Touch while a dictionary’s initial screen is on the display to
return to the
メニュー
screen.
Touch while a defi nition screen is on the display to switch to
the list of terms, which includes the term whose defi nition you
were viewing.
10.
【訳
/
決定】
(Translate/Select) Icon
Touch to execute a function or to select an on-screen item.
11.
【認識】
(Confi rm) Icon
Touch after inputting a character when inputting individual
characters on the handwriting panel.
12.
音声
(Audio) (Read) Key
Press to hear a reading by the voice of a native speaker of
the applicable language.
Press after shift
to hear a reading by synthesized
voice.
13.
(Back/List) Key
Press to back-step through previous operations.
Press while a dictionary’s initial screen is displayed to return
to the
メニュー
screen.
Press while a defi nition screen is on the display to switch to
the list of terms, which includes the term whose defi nition you
were viewing.
14.
(Translate/Select) Key
Executes a function or selects an on-screen item.
15. Arrow Keys
Move the selection highlighting or cursor up, down, left, or
right.
The left and right arrow keys move the cursor.
To adjust the audio volume, press
and then the
(Increase) or
(Decrease) arrow key.
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Main panel
Main panel
16.
(Setup/Delete) Key
Deletes the character at the current cursor location.
Press after
to display a screen for changing the setup
of the electronic dictionary.
17. Letter Keys
Use these keys to enter letters and numbers.
18.
(Backlight) Key
Toggles the backlight on and off.
19.
【前見出し】・【次見出し】
(Previous Headword/Next
Headword) Icon
Tap to jump from the current term to the previous or next term.
The same result can be achieved by pressing
and
then
or
.
20.
【ズーム】
(Zoom) Icon
Tap to enlarge the characters of a defi nition or explanation
screen.
21.
【熟語】
(Compound Terms) Icon
Tap to view compound terms that use the kanji you are
currently viewing in the
漢字源
(Japanese kanji) dictionary.
22.
【成句複合語】
(Idioms and Compound Expressions) Icon
Tap to view idioms and compound expressions that use the
term you are currently viewing.
23.
【用例解説】
(Samples and Explanations) Icon
Tap to view samples and explanations in dictionaries that
include such information.
24.
【暗記カード作成】
(Create Flash Card) Icon
Tap to create a fl ash card.
25.
【単語帳登録】
(Add to Word List) Icon
Display a term, sample sentence or idiom screen and then
tap this icon to add the term, sample sentence or idiom to
the word list.
Display Indicators
The following explains the meanings of display indicators.
This indicator:
Means this:
(Explanation)
There is an explanation for the word where the indicator is
located.
(Compound Term)
The
漢字源
(Japanese kanji) dictionary contains a
compound term that includes the kanji character you
are looking up.
(Idioms/Compound
Expression)
There is an idiom or compound term that uses the
term you are looking up.
(Idiom)
There is an idiom that uses the term you are looking
up. This indicator is displayed by certain mode
when optional software is installed.
(Sample)
There is a sample sentence that uses the term you
are looking up in an English dictionary.
Native speaker pronunciation is available for the
contents to the right or below this indicator.
(True Voice)
Native speaker pronunciation is available.
(Reading)
Synthetic voice reading is available.
(Reading Search)
Readings are available for the English on the
screen.
(English)
The language whose pronunciation is applied for
readings.
There is a term that contains the term you are
viewing or there is related information about the
term in the dictionary you are currently accessing.
(Jump)
Jump function in use
(History)
History function in use
(Zoom)
Display zoom in use
(Guide)
Guide function in use
(Display All)
(Word Order)
(Continuous)
Indicates the display method when using search
within results and world order search.
Keyboard Input
Use English input for unaccented alphabetic characters.
See the following notes about other languages for other
characters.
Alphabetic Characters
To input this:
Type this:
internet
?
~
Hangul
To input this:
Type this:
GGG
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Chinese (Pinyin)
1
2
3
4
To input this:
Perform this operation:
ü
Type (keyboard):
V
Tap (Handwriting Panel):
【一声
】
Type (Keyboard):
Q
(Displayed as 1.)
Tap (Handwriting Panel):
【二声
】
Type (Keyboard):
W
(Displayed as 2.)
Tap (Handwriting Panel):
【三声
】
Type (Keyboard):
E
(Displayed as 3.)
Tap (Handwriting Panel):
【四声
】
Type (Keyboard):
R
(Displayed as 4.)
Tap (Handwriting Panel):
【軽声
】
Type (Keyboard):
P
(Displayed as 0.)
ming2tian1
(
明天
)
【二声
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T I A N
【一声
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W T I A N
Q
Japanese
To input this:
Type this:
いんこ
みかん
さんぽ
or
きょう
らっこ
or
えーる
とぅーるーず
German, French, Spanish and Italian
All alphabetic characters are input in lower case, regardless of
their normal capitalization.
For the German “ß”, input “ss”.
For other characters that normally include a diacritic, input the
character without the diacritic. Example: “à” --> “a”, “ê” --> “e”,
etc.
For the French “ç” input “c”, and for “œ”, input “oe”.
Input hyphenated terms as single words, without a hyphen. To
look up “peut-être”, for example, input “peutetre”.
When inputting a term that consists of multiple words, input the
words without any spaces. To look up “die Elbe”, for example,
input “dieElbe”.
Handwriting Input
Use the stylus to write characters on the handwriting panel and
then tap
【認識】
.
Character Input Mode
The indicators
described below
appear on the main
panel to show
the current input mode. Also note that the handwriting panel
changes to two characters per screen or fi ve characters per
screen in accordance with the input mode.
Two Characters Per screen
Indicator
Supported Input Characters
Hiragana
Katakana
Kanji
Simplifi ed Chinese
Hangul
Two-character Handwriting Panel
Rewrite button
Scroll buttons
Input area
Character cells
Five Characters Per screen
Indicator
Supported Input Characters
Alphabetic
Accented alphabetic
Numbers
Five-character Handwriting Panel
Input area
Scroll buttons
Character cells
Rewrite button
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Indicator
Indicator
Simplifi ed Chinese, Hangul, and accented characters cannot be
input on a model that does not include a dictionary that requires
such characters. Input of the applicable characters becomes
possible when optional software is installed.
Handwriting input of Russian characters becomes enabled when
the optional Russian dictionary software is installed.
You can specify use of handwriting input on the initial screen of
some dictionaries.
Correcting Kanji Character Input
Example: After mistakenly inputting
喜怒衰楽
instead of
喜怒哀楽
Main panel
Handwriting panel
Scroll buttons
Input fi eld
1
On the handwriting
panel or in the input fi eld
on the main panel, tap a
character (
衰
).
This displays up to 10
possible candidates for the character.
If there are too many characters to fi t, tap the scroll buttons
to scroll.
2
If you fi nd the correct
character among the
candidates, tap it.
3
If you do not fi nd the correct character, tap
【書き直し】
(rewrite), rewrite the character on the handwriting panel
and then tap
【認識】
.
Stylus Basics
When using the stylus to perform operations on the main panel,
avoid applying excess pressure. Excess pressure can crack the
main panel.
When using the stylus to perform an operation on the main panel,
support the main panel from behind with your hand.
Main panel
Handwriting panel
To select a category and initial screen items
1
Press
to display the
メニュー
screen.
2
With the stylus, tap a
category tab and then
the dictionary/mode you
want. This will highlight
the dictionary/mode.
3
Tap the highlighted dictionary/mode again to display
its initial screen.
Instead of step 3, you also could tap
【訳
/
決定】
on the
handwriting panel.
Other operations you can perform on the main panel by
tapping with the stylus are selecting a search option,
selecting a term, and selecting a headword.
Search Functions
The following is an overview of some of the search functions.
Headword Search
This is the most basic type of search. Use it when you want to
look up a term in a dictionary.
1
Display the initial screen of a dictionary/mode.
2
Use and
to select
見出し語検索
(Headword
Search).
3
Enter the term you want.
As you enter each
character, the list of
terms on the main panel
is updated accordingly.
When entering a
headword, you can use
the following wildcard
characters.
Character
Represents
?
A single unknown character
~
A series of multiple unknown characters of unknown
length
4
Use and
to move the highlighting to a term and
then press
【訳
/
決定】
to display its defi nition screen.
Sample Sentence Search
You can use the following procedure to search for sample
sentences containing a specifi c term when the initial screen of
the mode you are in has a
例文検索
(sample sentence search)
option.
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Display the initial screen of a dictionary/mode.
2
Use and
to select
例文検索
.
3
Enter the term.
When inputting multiple words, separate them using the
ampersand character (&), not spaces.
Example: return to
➡
return&to
4
Press
.
This displays a list of all
sample sentences that
contain the term.
5
Use and
to move
the highlighting to a
sample sentence and
then press
to display detailed
information.
Jump Search
You can use jump search to jump to another location in the
same dictionary or to another dictionary.
Jumping in the Same Dictionary
1
When search results
show items with a
large arrow (
) or
small arrow(
) jump
symbol, press the
.
The
indicator
appears and the fi rst
character on the screen
becomes highlighted.
2
Use and
to move the highlighting to the item
you want and then press
to jump.
Jumping to Additional Information
The following indicators on a defi nition screen indicate
additional information is available. Press
, use the
,
,
, and
keys to move the highlighting to the indicator and
then press
to view the information.
Indicator
Applicable Model and Dictionary
Available
Information
変化
XD-GP7150
クラウン独和辞典
(German-Japanese Dictionary)
XD-SP7400
伊和中辞典
(Italian-Japanese Dictionary
Conjugation
活用
XD-GP7250
仏和大辞典
(French-Japanese Dictionary)
Usage
変化表
XD-GP7150
独和大辞典
(German-Japanese Dictionary)
Conjugation
table
活用表
XD-SP7500
現代スペイン語辞典
(Spanish Dictionary)
XD-GP7250
プチロワイヤル仏和辞典
（
French-Japanese Dictionary
）
プチロワイヤル和仏辞典
（
Japanese-French Dictionary
）
Usage table
Jumping to another Dictionary
1
While the results of a search are displayed, press the
.
The
indicator appears and the fi rst character on the
screen becomes highlighted.
2
Use the arrow keys to
move the highlighting to
a term and then press
.
This displays a dictionary
menu.
3
Use and
to select a dictionary and then press
.
This jumps to the applicable dictionary and searches for
the term.
Multi-dictionary Search
Use the following procedure to search for a term across
multiple dictionaries.
1
On
the
メニュー
screen,
select the
便利な機能
(Useful Functions) tab
and then select
複数辞
書アルファベットで検
索
(Alphabetic Multi-
dictionary Search).
You also could select
複
数辞書ひらがなで検索
(Hiragana Multi-dictionary
Search) or
複数辞書漢
字で検索
(Kanji Multi-
dictionary Search).
2
On the search screen that appears, enter a term.
Terms starting with the characters you have entered appear
in a list on the display.
Each term also includes an indicator showing its dictionary.
3
Use and
to move the highlighting to a term and
then press
to display its defi nition screen.
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Handwriting panel
