Casio XD-B Series Quick Manual

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CASIO Electronic Dictionary Quick Guide (XD-B Series)

The contents of this Quick Guide apply to the CASIO XD-B Series Electronic Dictionaries. Most illustrations and screen shots show the XD-B8500.

•

Hangul, Russian, Simpliﬁ ed Chinese, and accented characters cannot be input on a model that does not include a dictionary that requires such characters. Installing optional content automatically enables input of characters that match the installed content.

The screen shots and product illustrations shown in

• this manual may be different from those of the actual product. Also note that some keys and icons are not shown in examples of this manual for the sake of simplicity.

Example: → , →

Loading Batteries for the First Time

Load the two AA-size batteries that come with the electronic dictionary before trying to use it.

Remove the battery cover.

•

Pressing at the two points shown in the illustration, slide the cover in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Load two batteries.

•

Push against the spring with the (–) end of a battery. With the battery on top of

• the ribbon, press the (+) end down. Make sure the (+) and (–)

• ends are facing correctly and that the springs are pressed straight down.

Replace the battery cover.

Remove the stylus

from the side of the electronic dictionary and then press the RESET button on the bottom.

•

Do not use a toothpick, lead pencil, or other breakable object.

Unfold the electronic dictionary.

Main panel

Sub panel

•

This causes the 電池設定 (battery setting) screen to appear. If the message

•

... (Display (main panel or sub panel)

ルムが

protective ﬁ lm may be...) appears on the display, remove the protective ﬁ lm (option) from the main panel and/or sub panel.

After conﬁ rming that

アルカリ電池 (Alkaline

batteries) is selected for the battery setting

(Battery Settings),

設定

press

•

If you have commercially available eneloop batteries or rechargeable EVOLTA batteries loaded, use type and then press

•

If you have commercially available EVOLTA alkaline batteries loaded, select (Alkaline batteries).

表示（メインまたはサブ）保護フィ

電池

and to select the battery

●アルカリ電池

StylusRESET button StylusRESET button

Keyboard

Arrow keys

Use the time setting

screen to conﬁ gure time settings.

•

【PM】 (p.m.) before setting the time.

Press .

•

【保存】 (Save) on the

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Turning Power On and Off

Power turns on and off automatically whenever you open or close the electronic dictionary’s panels.

You also can use the following

• key operation to turn power on or off.

Press the key to turn on power.

•

Press again to turn off power.

General Guide

②

③

④ ⑤ ⑥

Use the , , , and

or the stylus to select the setting you want to change, and then use the

Number keysNumber keys

on-screen number keys to change the setting. Touch 【12/24】 to toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour format timekeeping. When you are using 12-hour format timekeeping, you need to touch

【AM】 (a.m.) or

Alternatively, you also could touch

time setting screen. This will display

メニュー (menu)

the screen. To display the menu screen without changing time settings, touch

【中止】 (Cancel).

To avoid misplacing the stylus, always be sure to return it to its storage slot in the side of the electronic dictionary whenever you are not using it.

Power also turns on when you press a dictionary/mode key.

Sub Panel

Use this panel to hand-write characters for input. Also, touching buttons that appear here performs certain operations.

①

⑧⑦ ⑪

⑮ ⑯

Quick Palette icons

You can use the stylus for instant access to a variety of different operations. (Quick Palette icons that appear along the left side of the screen depend on what is currently displayed.)

⑱

⑰

Main Panel

⑨

⑳

⑲

Quick Palette buttons

⑩

㉑㉒㉓㉔㉕㉖

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.

さらに検索

ヒストリー

④

(History) (Additional Search) Key

Accesses history data. Press after

to perform additional search ( さ

らに検索 ).

⑤ (Text Size) Key

Cycles through available screen text sizes.

ジャンプ

⑥

(Jump) (Guide) Key

ガイド

Enables look up of a term on the currently displayed deﬁ nition or explanation screen. Press after

to view guide information.

⑦ (Layout) Key

Changes the screen layout.

⑧ (Scroll) Keys

Scroll screen contents up and down. Press after terms.

読み上げ

⑨

音声

(Audio) (Read) Key

to jump back or forward between

Press when you want to hear something pronounced by a native speaker. Press after

to hear a reading by a

synthesized voice.

⑩ (Back/List) Key

Back-steps through previous operations.

• Press while a dictionary’s initial screen is

• displayed to return to the Press while a deﬁ nition screen is on the display

•

メニュー screen.

to switch to the list of terms, which includes the term whose deﬁ nition you were viewing.

⑪ (Translate/Select) Key

Executes a function or selects an on-screen item.

⑫ Arrow Keys

•

Move the selection highlighting or cursor up, down, left, or right. Used during volume adjustment to raise and

• lower the volume level.

⑬ (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.

⑭ Letter Keys

Enter letters and numbers.

⑮ 【前見出し】・【次見出し】 (Previous Headword/ Next Headword)

Jump from the current term to the previous or next term. The same result can be achieved by pressing

⑭

⑯【熟語】 (Compound Terms)

⑬

⑫

⑰ 【ズーム】 (Zoom)

and then or .

Displays compound terms that use the kanji you are currently viewing in the

新漢語林 (Japanese

kanji) dictionary.

Enlarges the characters of a deﬁ nition or explanation screen.

⑱

【成句複合語】 (Phrases and Compound

Expressions)

Displays phrases and compound expressions that use the term you are currently viewing.

⑲【暗記カード作成】 (Create Flash Card)

Creates a ﬂ ash card.

⑳【用例解説】 (Examples and Explanations)

Displays examples and explanations in dictionaries that include such information.

㉑【メニュー】 (Menu)

Displays the menu screen.

㉒【ジャンプ】 (Jump)

Performs the same functions as the ⑥ (Jump/Guide) key.

㉓【音声】 (Audio)

Performs the same functions as the ⑨ (Audio/Read) key.

㉔【戻る／リスト】 (Back/List)

Performs the same functions as the ⑩ (Back/List) key.

㉕【訳／決定】 (Translate/Select)

Performs the same functions as the ⑪ (Translate/Select) key.

㉖ (Scroll)

Perform the same functions as the ⑧

ジャンプ

ガイド

読み上げ

音声

keys.

Display Indicators

The following explains the meanings of display indicators.

This indicator: Means this:

(Explanation)

(Compound Term)

(

Phrases/Compound

Expression

(Phrase)

(Example)

(True Voice)

(Reading)

(Pronunciation

Search)

(English)

(Jump)

(History)

(Zoom)

(Guide)

(Display All)

(Word Order)

(Continuous)

A deﬁ nition or explanation continues off the top, bottom, left, or right of the screen. Use the arrow keys to scroll the screen.

There is an explanation for the word where the indicator is located.

The

新漢語林 (Japanese kanji)

dictionary contains a compound term that includes the kanji content you are looking up.

There is a phrase or compound



term that uses the term you are looking up.

)

With some electronic dictionary models, content is installed.

There is an example that uses the term you are looking up.

Native speaker pronunciation is available for the contents to the right or below this indicator.

Native speaker pronunciation is available.

Synthetic voice reading is available.

Pronunciations are available for the English term on the screen.

The language whose pronunciation is applied for pronunciations and 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 function in use

History function in use

Display zoom in use

Guide function in use

Indicates the display method when using

成句検索 (Phrase Search).

will appear if optional

例文検索 (Example Search) or

Precautions when Using the Stylus

Strong pressure is not required when performing

• main panel and sub panel touch operations.

Avoid applying excess pressure during touch

• operations and input. Strong pressure can cause cracking or breaking of the panels.

When performing a main panel touch operation,

• be sure to support the back of the panel with your hand.

Main panel

Sub Panel

Keyboard Input

Japanese

Use alphabetic characters to input Japanese.

•

To input this: Type this:

いんかんさんぽ or

きょうらっこ or

とぅーるーず

Alphabetic Characters

Use English input for unaccented alphabetic

• characters.

To input this: Type this: internet ?

Accented Characters

■

All alphabetic characters are input in lower-case, regardless of their normal capitalization.

For the German “ß”, input “ss”.

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For other characters that normally include a diacritic, input the character without the diacritic. Example: “à” --> “a”, “ê” --> “e”, etc.

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For the French “ç” input “c”, and for “œ”, input “oe”.

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Input hyphenated terms as single words, without a hyphen. To look up “peut-être”, for example, input “peutetre”.

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When inputting a term that consists of multiple words, input the words without any spaces. To look up “magna cum laude”, for example, input “magnacumlaude When entering a noun that is normally accompanied

•

”.

by an article, enter the noun only without the article. To look up “die Elbe” for example, input “elbe”.

Hangul

To input this: Type this:

Chinese (Pinyin)

1234

To input this: Perform this operation:

ming2tian1 ( 明天 )

Type (Keyboard):

Touch (Sub Panel): 【一声

Type (Keyboard): Q

1.)

Touch (Sub Panel): 【二声

Type (Keyboard): W

2.)

Touch (Sub Panel): 【三声

Type (Keyboard): E

3.)

Touch (Sub Panel): 【四声

Type (Keyboard): R

4.)

Touch (Sub Panel): 【軽声

Type (Keyboard): P (Displayed as

0.)

【二声】

】

(Displayed as

】

(Displayed as

】

(Displayed as

】

(Displayed as

】

【一声

WT I A N

】

Russian

To input this: Type this:

сласибо

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To input a character marked in the upper right corner of a key, press (and immediately release)

and then press the key.

All of the above characters are input in lower-case.

•

Handwriting Input

Use the stylus to write characters on the sub panel and then touch 【認識】.

With some search methods, like 単漢字 / 熟語を手書き

•

入力から探す（新漢語林）

using handwriting input only.

, you can enter search terms

Character Input Mode

The indicators described below appear on the main panel to show the current input mode. Also note that the sub panel changes to three characters per screen or ﬁ ve characters per screen in accordance with the input mode.

IndicatorIndicator

Three Characters Per screen

Indicator

Supported

Input

Characters Hiragana Katakana Kanji Simpliﬁ ed

Chinese Hangul

Three-character Sub Panel

【書き直し】

Scroll buttons

Character cells 【認識】

【書き直し】

Five Characters Per screen

Indicator

Supported

Input

Characters Alphabetic Accented

alphabetic Russian Numbers

Five-character Sub Panel

Scroll buttons

Character cells

【書き直し】

【認識】

Correcting Character Input

Example: After mistakenly inputting 喜怒衰楽 instead of

喜怒哀楽

Sub panel

Scroll buttons (When there are too many characters to ﬁ t in the display area between the buttons, touch these buttons to scroll the screen contents.)

On the sub panel

or in the input

Character cells

Main panel

Input ﬁ eld

ﬁ eld on the main panel, touch a character ( 衰 ).

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This displays up to 10 possible candidates for the character.

If you ﬁ nd the

correct character among the candidates, touch it.

If you do not ﬁ nd the correct character,

touch【書き直し】, rewrite the character on the sub panel and then touch 【認識】.

Touching【書き直し】while the character cells

• of the sub panel are blank (nothing input) will delete the character currently in the input ﬁ eld of the main panel.

Stylus Basics

To select a dictionary

■

Touch the Quick

Palette【メニュー】 (Menu) button to display the menu screen.

Touch a category

① and then a dictionary name ②.

The category and

• mode you touch will be highlighted on the screen.

Touch the highlighted dictionary name again.

•

This displays the initial screen of the dictionary.

•

You also could touch the Select) Quick Palette button instead of the dictionary name.

①②①

②

【訳 / 決定】 (Translate/

(Continued on other side.)

To select a headword or screen item

■

Enter the characters you want to ﬁ nd. On

the list that appears, touch the term or screen item you want.

This highlights the term or item.

•

Touch the highlighted term or item again.

•

This displays the deﬁ nition or explanation in the case of a term, or the next screen in the case of a screen item. You also could touch the

• Select) Quick Palette button instead of the term or item.

【訳 / 決定】 (Translate/

Search Functions

There are ﬁ ve basic patterns for term searches.

【パターン 1】 (Pattern 1): Entering the ﬁ rst few

【パターン 2】 (Pattern 2): Entering the term you want

【パターン 3】 (Pattern 3): Searching step-by-step

【パターン 4】 (Pattern 4): Specifying multiple

【パターン 5】 (Pattern 5): Touching a screen item

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For details about the search patterns of each dictionary, see the chapter in the

【パターン 1】(Pattern 1): Entering the

ﬁ rst few characters of the term you want to ﬁ nd

The displayed list of search results changes as you enter characters of the term you want to ﬁ nd. Example: To look up the meaning of ﬁ ne ( ジーニ

アス英和辞典

Use and to select 見出し語検索

Enter the term you

Character Represents ? A single unknown character ~

Use and to move the highlighting to

【パターン 2】(Pattern 2): Entering a

term and then pressing

Enter the entire term you want to ﬁ nd and then press . Example: To ﬁ nd the phrases that use the words “get” and “to” ( ジーニアス英和辞典 )

Use and to select 成句検索 (Phrase

Enter the term.

Press .

Use and to move the highlighting to

characters of the term you want to ﬁ nd

to ﬁ nd and then pressing .

through a series of titles

conditions

収録辞典一覧 (Dictionary List)

取扱説明書 (User’s Guide).

)

(Headword Search).

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.

A series of multiple unknown characters of unknown length

a term and then press

•

This displays the deﬁ nition screen.

Search).

•

Select 例文検索 (Example Search) to search for an example.

•

When inputting multiple words, separate them using the ampersand character (&), not spaces. Example: get to ➡ get&to

•

This displays a list of all phrases that contain the terms.

a phrase and then press .

This displays the detailed information screen.

•

【パターン 3】(Pattern 3): Searching

step-by-step through a series of titles

With some dictionaries, you simply select successive screen items and settings until you arrive at the information you need. Example: To look up an English conversation expression ( 英会話とっさのひとこと辞典 )

After displaying the

英会話とっさのひと

initial

こと辞典

screen, select

the following: ［A］場

面から探す

circumstance) →［A］毎

日の生活でつかうひとこと

(Daily life expressions) → ［A］家のなかで (At home) →［A］起きてから出かけるまで (Morning).

This will bring you to a screen that displays the English expression for the Japanese morning).

(Search by

おはよう (Good

【パターン 4】(Pattern 4): Specifying

multiple conditions

With this type of search, you can input multiple keywords, terms, or other conditions. Example: To look up 志 ( 新漢語林 /Japanese Kanji Dictionary)

•

The kanji 志 has the radical 心 (heart), and a total of 7 strokes. This information can be used to look up the kanji.

Select

を読み / 画数から探す

Reading/Number of Stroke Search) and then press

•

Use , , and to move the

highlighting to the 部首読み (Radical Reading) column, enter こころ (heart), and then press .

•

Use , , and to select 心 and

then press .

Use , , and to move the

highlighting to 総画数 (Total Strokes) and then enter 7.

•

Press .

•

Use , , and to select 志 and

then press .

•

単漢字

(Single Kanji

If a selection item has a letter at the beginning, you can press the corresponding letter key to execute the selection directly. In case of the above, for example, you could simply press

This displays a list of applicable radicals.

Use the top row of keyboard keys to enter numbers.

This displays a list of kanji characters that satisfy the conditions.

This displays an explanation of the term.

【パターン 5】 (Pattern 5): Touching a

screen item

You can perform a search simply by touching some screen items on the main panel screen with the stylus. Example: To look up 十勝岳 ( 百科事典マイペディア )

•

After displaying the

百科事典マイペディア

initial screen, touch the following items on the screen: 地図から検

索 (Map Search) (twice)

→ 日本地図から山を検索

(Search for Mountains in Japan Maps) (twice)

→ 北海道 (Hokkaido) →

十勝岳 (Tokachidake)

This will cause an

•

explanation of

(Tokachidake) to

岳

appear in the sub

panel. (Depending on the dictionary or search method, the explanation screen may not appear on the sub panel.)

Next, pressing

• of

十勝岳 (Tokachidake) to appear in the main panel.

十勝

will cause an explanation

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