What's New

- Fixed a bug which caused a crash in By-Component-search on iOS 3.1.x (iPod touch) or iOS 3.2 (iPad)
- Adjusted flashcard repetition intervals
- Adjusted JLPT levels

App Description

If you are looking for a Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionary and don't like to carry a heavy paper-based dictionary around, then this application is a must-have for you.

➔ FEATURES

Works offline; NO internet connection required

Contains more than 159,000 entries and 12,000 kanji

Extremely fast startup time and searching

Create your own vocabulary lists

See Japanese Proverbs, common expressions and Hiragana/Katakana charts

➔ SEARCH

English- Japanese or Japanese-English

Search by Japanese (Kanji, Kana, Romaji) or by English translation

Results are sorted by relevance. The best match appears at the top, saving you lots of time picking the right word

Search for kanji by components (i.e. 日 + 月 ➔ 明)

Search for kanji by SKIP-code

Search for kanji by using the built-in Chinese (Traditional) Handwriting Recognition Keyboard WHICH CAN BE ENABLED IN THE Keyboards SECTION OF YOUR DEVICE'S PREFERENCES

Lemmatized search lets you search by nearly any conjugated form, i.e. 食べます ➔ 食べる This also works with romaji (tabemasu ➔ taberu)!

➔ DISPLAY

Example sentences including reading hints

Stroke order animations for about 2,800 characters, including all daily-use Kanji as well as Kana.

Conjugations of verbs, adjectives and counters

See the most popular compounds for each Kanji

Choose your favorite romanization system (Original Hepburn, Revised Hepburn, Kunrei-shiki, Nihon-shiki or Word Processor)

➔ STUDY

SRS (Leitner) flashcard learning system

You can use nearly any list as a source for flashcards

Study Kanji by school year or by radical

Learn from built-in lists like "Economics", "Food" or "Sports"

Prepare for the JLPT

➔ SEE IT BEFORE YOU BUY

Just open our website to see a video of Japanese.

➔ IPAD / MAC OS X VERSION

An iPad version is in the works and will be released as a free update once it's done. A version for Mac OS X will be available as a seperate download soon.

➔ ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The stroke order animations are © 2008-2010 codefromtokyo.

Kanji components database © 2009-2010 codefromtokyo.

This publication has included material from the JMdict (EDICT, etc.) and KANJIDIC2 dictionary files in accordance with the licence provisions of the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group. See http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/edict.html and http://www.edrdg.org/

SKIP (System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns) data is derived from the New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Kenkyusha 1990, NTC 1993) and The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary (Kodansha International, 1999). SKIP is protected by laws. The utilization of SKIP in any form is strictly forbidden without the written permission of Jack Halpern, the copyright holder, which is normally granted. Please contact jack@ckji.org and see http://www.kanji.org for details.

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