---
name: "kiten"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kiten"
version: "4:3.5.9-2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kiten"
---

# kiten(1)

a Japanese reference/study tool for KDE

## NAME

kiten - a Japanese reference/study tool for KDE

## SYNOPSIS

**kiten** \[ *generic-options* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**Kiten** is a Japanese reference and study tool for KDE.  It is an application with multiple functions.  Firstly, it is a convenient English to Japanese and Japanese to English dictionary.  Secondly, it is a Kanji dictionary, with multiple ways to look up specific characters. Thirdly, it is a tool to help you learn Kanji.

This application is part of the official KDE edutainment module.

## OPTIONS

For a full summary of options, run *kiten --help*.

## SEE ALSO

[**kitengen**(1)](/kitengen/1.md).

Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Centre. You can also enter the URL *help:/kiten/* directly into konqueror or you can run \`*khelpcenter help:/kiten/*' from the command-line.

If the KDE Help Centre is not installed then you can install the package *kdeedu-doc-html* and read this documentation in HTML format from */usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kiten/*.

## AUTHOR

Kiten was written by Jason Katz-Brown \<jason@katzbrown.com\>, Jim Breen \<jwb@csse.monash.edu.au\> and Neil Stevens \<neil@qualityassistant.com\>.\
 This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton \<bab@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).