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I am looking for the adjective jōzu / boozy in my Takoboto dictionary, to learn further information, or its kanji, but cannot find it.

Can someone help me develop a strategy for looking up and finding adjectives in a dictionary?

dictionary entries for joozu textbook entry

Jack Maddington
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  • Hint: https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/39927/hiragana-long-%c5%8d-spelling-%e3%81%8a%e3%81%86-versus-%e3%81%8a%e3%81%8a – oals Oct 27 '16 at 17:16

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The adjective is actually spelled as jouzu in the dictionary. As with many oo combinations, one has to try on as well, as per this post.

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Jack Maddington
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Learn Hepburn romanization if you want to use romaji. Your textbook uses a non-standard type of romanization. Better yet, just learn the kana. The word is 上手｛じょうず｝.

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  • I think that *jōzu* is in fact Hepburn romanization, as //ou// gets romanized as *ō* unless there is either a word boundary between //o// and //u// (e.g. 子牛), or the //u// is the (inflecting) ending of a verb (e.g. 迷う). – Earthliŋ Dec 18 '16 at 20:00