CASIO E-W Series Electronic Dictionary User Manual

CASIO E-W Series Electronic Dictionary

Product Information

• Specifications:
  • Model: CASIO Electronic Dictionary (E-W Series)
  • Battery: Lithium-ion
  • Display: LCD Panel
  • Input Method: Touchscreen, Handwriting Recognition
  • Connectivity: USB

Product Usage Instructions

• Charging the Battery:
  • Your electronic dictionary comes with a built-in lithium-ion battery that needs to be charged before use.
  • Connect the USB cable to the USB-AC adaptor.
  • Connect the USB cable connector to the electronic dictionary.
  • The charge lamp will turn red when charging and off when charging is complete.
• Configuring Initial Settings:
  • Before using the electronic dictionary, follow these steps to configure the initial settings:
  • Unfold the electronic dictionary and remove any protective film on the display screen if present.
  • Select the language (e.g., English).
  • Set the date and time using the arrow keys to scroll through values.
  • Touch ’12/24′ in the upper right corner for the timekeeping format.
  • Confirm settings and touch ‘Set Date/Time’.
• Turning Power On and Off:
  • To power on or off the electronic dictionary:
  • Press the power key to turn it on.
  • Press the power key again to turn it off.
• General Guide:
  • The electronic dictionary allows touchscreen interaction, swipe for scrolling, handwriting input, and access to Function Menus via Quick Palette icons.

FAQs

• Q: How do I access the Function Menu?
  • A: Touch the ‘Function Menu’ icon on the Quick Palette.
• Q: How can I compare pronunciation with native speakers?
  • A: Use the ‘Audio’ key to compare your pronunciation with native speaker pronunciation.

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CASIO Electronic Dictionary Quick Guide (E-W Series)

RJA541335-002V001 MA2306-A 20236
2023

The contents of this Quick Guide apply to the CASIO E-W Series Electronic Dictionaries. Most illustrations and screen shots show the E-W220. · In this manual, characters such as the
French è and the German ß are referred to as “special alphabetic characters”. · 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 screen indicators are shown in simplified form.

Example:

Quick PaletteHOME Icon

Charging the Battery

Your electronic dictionary has a built-in lithium-ion battery. The battery is not charged when you purchase the electronic dictionary. Charge the battery before use.

Before Charging

· Use the procedure described in this manual to charge the battery.
· For charging, use the USB-AC adaptor that comes with the electronic dictionary. Using a non-specified charger may cause charging problems, malfunction, and breakdown.

Connect (Charging starts automatically.)
Charge lamp Red: Charging Off: Charging complete
3

2
USB cable connector

USB cable

1

USB-AC adaptor
· Taking care to ensure that connectors are oriented correctly, connect using the USB cable.
· With the electronic dictionary turned off,
connect in the following sequence: 1, 2, 3.
­ If the electronic dictionary is turned on, press to turn it off.
­ The electronic dictionary will turn on automatically when charging starts. You can perform operations on the electronic dictionary while charging is in progress.

After Charging is Complete (Charge lamp off)

· The first time you use the electronic dictionary after charging the battery, remove the stylus from the side, and then use it to press the RESET button.

Stylus RESET button

­ Do not use a toothpick, lead pencil, or other object with a breakable tip to press
the RESET button.

­ Leaving the battery uncharged for a number of days will cause the electronic dictionary’s time and date settings to be reset. The next time you turn on power after this, the electronic dictionary will display a message telling you to set the date and time. Configure settings as required.

­ In some cases, turning on power may cause the charge lamp to flash red, followed by power turning off. This may mean that an internal error has occurred. Try turning power on and off again, and charging the battery. If this does not eliminate the problem, contact your original retailer or authorized CASIO service center.

Configuring Initial Settings

1 Unfold the electronic dictionary.

Recording microphone

Display Keyboard

Arrow keys

Speaker (back)
This causes the (language selection) screen to appear. · If the message
(The screen protector film on the LCD Panel may not be attached properlyappears on the display, remove the protective film (commercially available) from the display screen. If there is no protective film on the display screen, refold the electronic dictionary then press the RESET button and unfold the electronic dictionary again.
2 Touch (English).

· This causes the time setting screen to appear.

3 Configure date and time settings.

· Use the

and

buttons for

each setting to scroll through values

and change the current date and time

settings.

· Touch

to scroll a value forward or

to scroll back.

· To toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour

timekeeping, touch12/24in the upper right corner of the screen.

· To display the HOME screen without

changing the date and time settings,

touchCancel (Set later).

4 TouchSet Date/Time as Above.
· This displays the HOME screen. · 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. · You can assign dictionaries you want to the HOME screen so they are available for selection. For more information, see “Assigning Often-used Dictionaries to the HOME Screen” ( page 2).

Turning Power On and Off
Power turns on and Dictionary/mode keys 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.
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.

General Guide

Display You can touch the screen to select an on-screen item, swipe it to scroll to another screen, or input characters by handwriting them on the screen.

Quick Palette Touch the Quick Palette icons to perform operations or display Function Menus.

Function Menu and Touch Menu
The Function Menu and Touch Menu give you access to various functions.
Function Menu
To display the Function Menu, touch (Function Menu) on the Quick Palette.

Touch Menu

On a definition screen drag across a term

from left to right.

Dictionary/mode keys · Toggle between the initial screens of the
two dictionaries/modes assigned to
each key.

(Power) Key · Toggles power on and off.

Key

· To input (?) or () or to use a function

marked with the same type of frame as

this key, first press

. Release

and then press the desired key.

(Scroll) Keys

· Scroll screen contents up and down.

· While a definition or explanation screen

is displayed, pressing

and then a

scroll key scrolls to the previous or next

screen.

(Volume +/-) Keys

(History) Key

· Re-looks up something you looked up

previously.

(Audio) Key

· Press to play native speaker or to

compare your pronunciation with native

speaker pronunciation.

(Back) Key · Back-steps to the previous screen.

(Select) Key · Executes an operation after you input a
term, select an item, etc.

(Arrow) Keys

· Use these keys to move between

selected items, or to move the cursor.

(Delete) Key · Deletes a character after an input
mistake, etc.

Character Keys · Use these keys to input characters.

(HOME) Key · Displays the HOME screen.

(Function Menu) Icon

· Displays the Function Menu.

(Back) Icon

· Same function as .

(Audio) Icon

· Same function as .

(HOME) Icon

· Same function as .

Display Items

The following explains the meanings of the different items (indicators, icons, buttons) that appear on the display.

This:

Means this:

A definition or explanation continues off the top, bottom, left, or right of the screen. Use the on-screen arrow buttons to scroll the screen.

There is an explanation for the

(Comment)

word where the indicator is located.

There is a phrase that uses (Phrase) the term you are looking up.

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

Touching jumps to a screen
showing an image (illustration, (Show Image) photograph, graph, or other
figure).

Native speaker pronunciation is available for the content where this icon is located.

Native speaker pronunciation (Native Voice) is available.

Pronunciations are available (Pronunciation for the English term on the
Search) screen.

The language whose (English) pronunciation is applied for (Language) pronunciations and readings.

There is related information for the term you are looking up in the current dictionary.

(Guide)

Guide function is in use.

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Panel Touch and Text Input Tips Handwriting Input

· When performing a display screen touch operation, be sure to support the back of the display with your hand.

Display

· Strong pressure is not required when performing display screen touch operations.

· Avoid applying excessive pressure during touch operations and input. Strong
pressure can cause cracking or breaking of
LCD panel.

· For stylus character input, be sure to use only the stylus that comes with your
electronic dictionary.

Keyboard Input

· To input numbers, touch the on-screen number keys.
Inputting Alphabetic Characters

Use the stylus to write the character on the screen. · Touch theHand(Handwriting) icon to
display character input cells. · Write a character into a cell and then touch Recog.(Recognize).
Recog.(Recognize) Delete
· The number of cells that appear on the screen depends on the type of characters that can be input.
Correcting Character Input
· The example here uses the screen (character input cells) that are displayed afterHand(Handwriting) is touched.
Example: After mistakenly inputting instead of

To input this:

Type this:

internet

?

Input field

· Input of a question mark (?) and asterisk () is not supported for a HOME screen

1

Touch the character ( ) in the input

search.

field.

Inputting Special Alphabetic Characters, etc.
· For 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 “oe”, input “oe”.
· For the German “ß”, input “ss”. · When entering a noun that is normally
accompanied by an article, enter the noun only without the article. To look up “The Beatles” for example, input “beatles”.

· This displays up to 10 possible candidates for the character.
2 If you find the correct character
among the candidates, touch it.

Inputting Chinese Characters (Pinyin)

· Numbers are not actually printed on the keyboard keys.

To input this: Perform this operation:

ü

Type (keyboard): 7

Type (keyboard):

2

(Displayed as 1.)

Type (keyboard):

8

(Displayed as 2.)

Type (keyboard):

&

(Displayed as 3.)

Type (keyboard):

3

(Displayed as 4.)

Type (keyboard):

5

(Displayed as 5.)

ming2tian1

()

2

85 * “/

· To input one of the four tone symbols ( , , , ) or the neutral tone symbol ( ), press ,
use and to select the desired symbol, and then press .

· If you do not find the correct character, touchDelete, handwrite the desired character again, and then touch Recog.(Recognize).
· TouchingDeletewhile the character cells are blank (nothing input) will delete the character currently in the input field.
(Continued on other side.)

Screen Touch Operations

To rearrange contents on the

To select contents

HOME screen
1 Touch and hold the content you want

1 On the Quick Palette, touchHOME to reposition for about one second.

to display the HOME screen.

Continue holding as you drag the

2 TouchContents List.

content to the desired location, and then release it.

3 Touch a category.

· This displays a list of contents.
4 Touch the content you want.
· If all of the dictionaries cannot appear on a single screen page, a dark blue down arrowwill appear on the right of the display. To scroll to the next or previous page, touch the dark blue down arrowor up arrow.
To select a headword or screen item
1 Enter characters. On the list that
appears, touch the term or screen item you want.
Scrolling the Screen
· If there are pages following the currently displayed page, you can scroll to them by swiping the panel.

· “YES” will appear at the top of the display if the movement is allowed, while “NO” will appear if it is not.
· To swap two icons with each other, drag one of the icons and drop it on top of the other icon.
· The relocate operation will not be allowed if the icon of the content you are moving is larger than the space available at the destination.
Removing Content From the HOME Screen
1 Touch and hold for about one second
the content you want to remove, drag it to (Remove from HOME) and then release it.

Assigning Often-used Dictionaries to the HOME Screen
You can assign often-used dictionaries and other contents or categories to the HOME screen for quick and easy recall whenever you need them.
To display content on the HOME screen
1 On the HOME screen, touch
Contents List.
2 Touch and hold the content you want
to assign to the HOME screen for about one second.

Launching a Search from the HOME Screen
You can input Chinese or alpha characters to perform a Multi-Dictionary Search from the HOME Screen.
1 On the Quick Palette, touchHOME.
Search method

2 Touch the candidate you want to
view. · With this search method, you can select
the term you want without necessarily inputting all of its characters.
Using Search After Input With this search method, you input a term, touchSearch, and then select the one you want from the list of candidates that appears. This search method can be used with EXAMPLE (Example Search), PHRASE (Phrase Search), etc.

Example: To look up example sentences that contain “dictionary” in The EnglishChinese Dictionary

Handwriting · This displays the HOME screen.

1 Input the term you want to find into
the search term input box and then touchSearch.

2 Touch the search method you want

to use: ENGLISH, EXAMPLE,

PHRASE, CHINESE.

· This causes the cursor ( l ) to appear in

the search term input box. As long as

nothing is contained in the search term

input box, you can touch and select a

different search method, if you want.

Touch

(Handwriting) displays

the handwriting input cells. For

information about handwriting input,

see “Handwriting Input” ( page 1).

· Depending on your electronic dictionary

model, you may be able to look up

other language terms besides English.

3 Enter the term you want.
· Terms starting with the characters you have entered appear in a list on the display. In the case of EXAMPLE (Example Search) and PHRASE (Phrase Search), enter the characters you want and then press .
· In the case of ENGLISH and CHINESE, a list will appear showing symbols that indicate the dictionaries that contain the term. In the case of EXAMPLE and PHRASE, abbreviations of the dictionary names will appear at the top of the display.

2 Touch the candidate you want to
view.
Using Navigation Search With this search method, you sequentially select categorized items (headwords, images) to navigate to the information you want. Example: To look up 8-language expressions for communicating information about symptoms and pain (Dr. PASSPORT)
Select headwords

4 Touch the term whose explanation
you want to view.

Launching a Search from a Dictionary

Searching for a Term in a Dictionary
You can use any of the three methods below to search for a term in a dictionary.
· For details about the search patterns of each dictionary, see the (Included Dictionaries) chapter in the (User’s Guide) for your electronic dictionary.

Example: To look up with the (BRITANNICA CONCISE)
Select images

Using Incremental Search Terms starting with the characters you have entered appear in a list on the display.

1 Input the term you want to find into
the search term input box.

Looking Up Another Term From a Definition Screen
Inputting Another Term in the Same Dictionary
After specifying a dictionary and looking up a term, you can look up another term in the same dictionary by simply inputting it while the current term’s definition screen is displayed. Looking Up a Term Indicated by When there is green text following on a definition screen, it means that there is another term that includes the current term, related items, or other information within the current dictionary. With some dictionaries, only green text is displayed without . Example: On the “entrepreneur” definition screen, looking up the meaning of “enterprise” in (The EnglishChinese Dictionary)
Touching “ENTERPRISE” jumps to the “enterprise” definition screen. · means that “enterprise” is a related item. · If pronunciation or other audio is playing
back, pause playback before performing this operation. Looking Up a Displayed Term Example: On the “custom” definition screen in The English-Chinese Dictionary, looking up the Chinese meaning of
1 On the “custom” definition screen,
drag across from left to right.
· The mini dictionary will also appear to the left of the Touch Menu, which you can use to view the meaning of the selected term.

2 On the Touch Menu, touchWord
Jump.

· TouchingSeparatedin the upper right of the list screen switches to lists for each individual dictionary. To return to the list screen, touchCombined.
3 Touch the term whose explanation
you want to view.

Displaying Detailed Information

Use the operations described here to view detailed explanations and other information about looked up words and terms.

Viewing Phrases

If

is on the screen, it indicates that

there is phrase information available for the

term you are viewing.

1 Touch an icon on the display.
2 Touch the candidate you want to
view.
Viewing Examples and Explanations
If , or is on the display, it means that example, illustration, explanation, or other information is available.

1 Touch an icon on the display.

Pronunciation

You can use earphones or the product’s built-in speaker to hear readings of terms, examples, etc.
Hearing Native Speaker Pronunciation
1 While a detailed explanation screen
is displayed, touch(Audio) on the Quick Palette.
· This causes the Touch Menu to enter the Audio Mode and plays the pronunciation.
· To change the volume level, touch or on the Touch Menu.
· To change the playback speed, touch or on the Touch Menu.
· To change the number of repeats to three or five, touchPlay Onceon the Touch Menu.
2 To exit the Audio Mode, touch in
the upper right corner of the Touch Menu. · Note the following precautions
concerning English terms. ­ Proper pronunciation will not be
produced for a language other than English. ­ The pronunciation produced by the electronic dictionary may not be correct if there is more than one pronunciation for a term.
Recording Your Reading to Compare with Native Speaker Reading
1 On the Quick Palette, touch
(Audio). · This displays the Audio Mode Touch
Menu and plays back the pronunciation.
2 On the Touch Menu, touchRecord. 3 After the “Recording…” screen
appears, pronounce the same term into the recording microphone.
· After you finish recording, touch .
4 On the Touch Menu, touch
Compare. · The native speaker reading and the
recorded reading will play back in succession. · If you want to compare the readings more, keep touchingCompare. · To re-record your reading, repeat the above procedure from step 2.

5 To exit the compare operation, touch
. · Exiting a comparison operation will
automatically delete the reading you recorded.

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