WWWJDIC for Android

4.2
1.5K reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Japanese and kanji online dictionary

Android frontend for Jim Breen's WWWJDIC

Donate version available.

Features
* Italian dictionary support
* ICS support
* full tablet support
* Japanese pronunciation (install 'N2 TTS' from Play Store to enable)
* text to speech for kanji and dictionary entry translations (English/German/French/Spanish/Italian)
* multi-radical kanji search
* kanji of the day widget
* Japanese sentence translation
* example search with approximately 150,000 examples (Japanese/English pairs)
* example word breakdown/translation
* animated stroke order diagrams for over 6000 kanji
* history and favorites
* history and favorites backup and restore
* favorites export to CSV and Anki
* handwriting recognition (including offline via the Kanji Recognizer app)
* OCR-based handwritten kanji recognition, does not require correct stroke order
* Optical Character Recognition (OCR) -- just take a picture of any kanji you want to look up
* multiple dictionary lookup (General/Japanese Names/Computing/Life Sciences and more)
* multiple languages supported (German/French/Russian/Swedish/Hungarian/Spanish/Dutch/Slovenian/Italian)
* romaji input
* kanji compound search
* kanji lookup by reading, meaning, radical or stroke count
* radical table showing radical variations
* automatic mirror selection for best performance

About permissions:
* Camera permission is needed for OCR
* Coarse location is needed to select the closest WWWJDIC mirror
* For more details, see the FAQ:

http://code.google.com/p/wwwjdic/wiki/FAQ


Email me for bug reports and feature requests:
wwwjdic.android@gmail.com

Follow me on Twitter for latest updates: @kapitanpetko
http://twitter.com/kapitanpetko

Release announcements and detailed explanation of new features on my blog:

http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/search/label/wwwjdic

Google+ page:

https://plus.google.com/105457662805333954065/
Updated on
Aug 22, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
App info and performance and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit

Ratings and reviews

4.2
1.39K reviews
Michael McConnell
September 20, 2023
I loved having the Kanji Recognizer on my old phone. When I went to re-download it on my new phone, this is all that showed up by Kanji Recognizer's creator. After downloading it, I went to test it, and it asked me to download the newest version of Kanji Recognizer, at which point I got excited and thought it might just not have shown up. But when I followed the link, it said Kanji Recognizer is not compatible with my new phone model, which in the end renders this app useless unfortunately.
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Tim Vandenhoek
July 20, 2020
Please go back to the old version/make a layout option where the buttons for example sentence etc. were on the bottom of the screen. Why do app developers put buttons out of reach, I genuinely wonder sometimes if they have ever used a modern smartphone....
7 people found this review helpful
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A Google user
December 14, 2018
This is an adequate Japanese dictionary app but the user interface could use some work. I think the biggest reason I don't use it more is that there isn't a very clear separation between dictionary entries if there were a comma separating entries that would go a long way to making this app more usable.
5 people found this review helpful
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What's new

* Properly detect Kanji Recognizer on Android 12+
* Added privacy policy