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Japanese is an extraordinarily impressive English to Japanese / Japanese to English dictionary. With an extensive dictionary database, flashcards, many ways of looking up kanji, and more, this app delivers everything one could want from a dictionary app.

What's New

(Important notice: Turn off romaji in the settings to show readings in Hiragana on the flashcards)

★ Added support for iPhone 5 and iOS 6
★ Unlimited flashcard study
★ Changed flashcard button design
★ Mark all cards as learned by tapping the progress chart
★ Added a study progress indicator at the top of the flashcards
★ In Handwriting Recognition, you can undo the last stroke instead of deleting the whole drawing
★ Japanese will remember the last selected JLPT level
☂ Fixed flashcard display of long text
☂ Fixed a display bug with words like 天邪鬼
☂ Fixed Hepburn Romaji
☂ Fixed example sentences
☂ Other bug fixes

App Description

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This Japanese/English dictionary is going to become your best friend. Contains more than 166,900 entries and 52,000 examples, as well as stroke order animations for kanji and kana. It works completely offline, an internet connection is NOT required.

SEARCH
・Extreme fast startup and search time
・Search English-Japanese or Japanese-English
・Results are sorted by relevance. The best match appears at the top, saving you lots of time picking the right word
・Begins-with, exact match or ends-in search
・You can enter Japanese words in the Latin alphabet
・Entering conjugated forms (ex. 食ã¹ã¾ã™ tabemasu) will find the proper dictionary entry (食ã¹ã‚‹ taberu)
・Enter a number to see its Japanese pronunciation

INPUT
Enter unknown characters in different ways:
・Drawing using the built-in Handwriting Recognition
・By components (for example 日 + 月 ➔ 明)
・By SKIP code (for example â¿°4-9 âž” ç¦)

COMPREHENSIVE
・Example sentences including reading hints
・All pronunciations can be shown in the latin alphabet (romaji)
・Conjugations of verbs, adjectives and counters
・Compounds (引ã hiku âž” 引ã出㙠hikidasu, 注æ„を引ã chÅ«i-wo-hiku, …)
・Similar looking characters (人 入 八 …)
・Kanji by radical or school year
・Hiragana/Katakana chart

WORK WITH IT
・Mark headwords with different colors
・Create your own vocabulary lists
・Exchange lists with your friends and classmates
・Add notes to dictionary entries

STUDY
・Integrated SRS flashcard learning system
・You can use nearly any list as a source for flashcards
・Prepare for the Japanese Language Test (JLPT)
・Study kanji by radical or school year

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

・Character animations are © 2008-2012 renzo Inc.

・Character components database © 2009-2012 renzo Inc.

・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.

App Screen Shots

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App Changes

May 17, 2013 New version 3.2
March 13, 2013 Price Decrease: $8.99 -> $7.99
March 03, 2013 Price Decrease: $8.99 -> $4.99
February 27, 2013 Price Decrease: $6.99 -> $4.99
September 15, 2008 Initial Release