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The Pocket Japanese- Korean Dictionary was published in 1939, when Korea was under Japanese brutal occupation. As a whole, the dictionary contained 5,976 Chinese characters, which was arranged by 214 radicals from 一 to 龠. The main body of the dictionary was divided into three parts: Volume I, Volume II and Volume III, whose compilation was in longitudinal direction. The radical was firstly marked in the square icon, then entering the headline words in bold for a new line with black square bracket【 】; and the brackets ( ) were used under the headline words, in which the Korean explanation and pronunciation was marked, then following by Chinese explanation, which sometimes used a mixture of Korean and Chinese. After the Chinese explanation, there was Japanese pronunciation and meaning. For example, the phonetic index was attached by the last headline word穐 in the radical of 龠, whose level tone, rising and falling tone of Chinese pronunciation were marked by ● and ○ in the arrangement of ‘가나다’. After the index, there was the title page of the Pocket Japanese- Korean Dictionary, and the following was radical index. The parts of Chinese explanation had been recorded after the pronunciation, in addition to the explanation of the headline words, the dictionary also recorded the information of variant characters, relevant words and biblical allusions. Those contents sometimes appeared after one Chinese explanatory note, which had the great significance in correct explaining the Chinese characters.