version to register for free online dictionary access. The online version is being regularly updated (currently including over 248,000 entries) and allows keyword searching for synonyms and related expressions. In 2006, collective Daijirin sales exceeded 1.5 million copies. Daijirin is also available on the Internet. Sanseido's Web Dictionary offers Web and mobile phone subscription access to numerous dictionaries, including E-jirin (e辞林). Nippon Telegraph and Telephone's "Goo Lab" provides a server that allows free online searching of the second edition Sūpā Daijirin. Yahoo also used to provide access to the second edition of the dictionary, but the service has since been discontinued. Editions Japanese dictionaries Daijirin 1st edition () (1988-11-03) 2nd edition () (1995-11-03) 3rd edition () (大辞林 第三版) (2006-10-27): Includes 238,000 entries. 4th edition () (2019-09-05) Dual Daijirin [Web edition] (Dual 大辞林［Web版］): It is a web browser-based version of Daijirin 3rd edition. Japanese-Chinese dictionaries Shuangjierihancilin (雙解日漢辭林) (, 1A88): Published by Wu-Nan Culture Enterprise(Wu-Nan Book Inc.), based on the Sanseido's Jirin 21 which is based on first edition of Daijirin. Includes 150,000 entries. 1st impression (2007-11-01) Xinrihancilin (新日漢辭林) (, 1A89): Published by Wu-Nan Culture Enterprise(Wu-Nan Book Inc.), based on the Daijirin 2nd edition. Includes 170,000 entries. 1st impression (2010-10-01) Comparison with Kōjien One of the biggest differences between Daijirin and Kōjien definitions is how they arrange meanings. A dictionary can arrange entries either historically with the oldest recorded meanings first (e.g., Kōjien and Oxford English Dictionary) or popularly with the most common meanings first (e.g., Daijirin and American Heritage Dictionary). Daijirin entries encompass diverse vocabulary, including modern and classical Japanese words, scientific terminology, proper names, alphabetical abbreviations (like NG "no good; outtake, blooper"), and yojijukugo idioms. Some definitions include semantic notes distinguishing homonyms and synonyms. Daijirin usage examples range from classical texts like Man'yōshū to modern publications. Tom Gally lists three advantages of Daijirin, Though Koujien is regarded by many in Japan as the authoritative dictionary and is the one most often cited by newspaper editorialists trying to make etymological points of questionable validity, I regard the best single-volume kokugo [Japanese language] dictionary to be Daijirin. Designed to compete directly with Koujien, Daijirin is different in one key way from its illustrious predecessor: whereas Koujien arranges the senses of its definitions in historical order, Daijirin puts the most common contemporary meanings first. The result, for a person reading modern Japanese, is that Daijirin is the most likely to list the intended