KanjiGraph Japanese Dictionary

Christophe Fornaroli

About this app

Kanji Graph is a smart offline Japanese-English dictionary. It is free and ad free. You can search words by rōmaji, kanji and kanji parts that you can quickly select from the search results (see a demo here https://youtu.be/nb3NG9W6iDY). You can also draw kanjis that will be recognized independently of stroke order or stroke count.

You can study and review word readings in a graph where nearby words share common kanji readings. All your actions (in the graph quiz and in the dictionary) will update your level for each kanji reading.

A downloadable module contains example sentences from the Japanese Wikipedia and the 小説家になろう website. The user level for the different kanji readings is used to show easier to read sentences first.

Detailed information about kanjis and any part thereof can be displayed: readings, meanings, common words grouped by reading and containing kanjis.

The dictionary also includes Japanese definitions from the wiktionary project. This includes synonyms, antonyms and etymology.

Ratings and reviews

Has potential, but the interface is pretty bad. The kanji lookup-by-drawing works very well, but that's pretty much all I use the app for. There's some sort of review tool but I can't figure it out. It forces you to search for Kanji first, and then it be populates from that, but once you enter the review tool it just shows you a scale canvas with the kanji on it with no clear message of what to do next. Clicking the kanji shows a quiz of what kana goes with it, but afterwards, that's it.

Don't get me wrong, the graph is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. It's great. Offline functionally is extremely important to me, and there's also a toggle to switch between Japanese and English definitions. But bookmarks/lists and user inputted example sentences would be REALLY great. Unless I've missed the bookmark feature? To the developer, I would absolutely love to be able to save word lists and quiz off of those. And some sort of "memorization level" would be nice. The concept is great

Easily the best kanji app I've found so far. It's search feature is exactly what I need, and the fact that it's so straightforward means I have minimal distractions (unlike some other apps that I've tried). Edit 8/16/2023: Changing this from 4 to 5 stars now that I've used it more and found even more features I've grown to love. Kanji search, compounds, clicking on radicals in a Kanji for a breakdown, and even more has become extremely intuitive and just what I needed. Thank you for this app!