JED - Japanese Dictionary
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The development of this app has been on hold for a while,
if JED is not working for you, please try an alternative:
IMI - Japanese Dictionary
Aedict
WWWJDIC for Android
Kabuto Japanese Dictionary
Makimono Japanese Dictionary
Japanese plus
Cooori JED
Akebi Japanese Dictionary
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JED is an offline Japanese Dictionary.
FAQ:
- If your app stopped working, please try to delete the jed folder on your sd card and re-install the app from scratch.
- The server is under heavy load, download might get slow.
Please be patient and retry.
- The app works offline once the dictionary files are downloaded, BUT sends analytics data (Google) if wifi is available!
- User data ( tags! ) gets deleted when updated!
Current features:
- Works offline
- Search and view results as you type!
- Multiple dictionaries ( English-Japanese, French-Japanese, Spanish-Japanese )
- Search in readings (romaji), meanings (english) and japanese (kanji, hiragana and katakana)
- Search results can contain words, expressions, kanji (both onyomi and kunyomi) and inflected form for adjectives and verbs.
- Filters results based on content type (meaning, reading, character type, parts of speech, common words, common kanji)
- Radicals lookup
- tags (vocabulary list) with possibility to search and export to Google Docs and Anki.
- Animated Stroke Order Diagrams for kanji
- Copy-Paste for most of the field and a notepad to gather information
- Move to SD card (above 2.2)
Acknowledgements:
- Electronic Dictionaries Research Groups
- KanjiVG
- Tatoeba
- KanjiCafe
keywords: japanese offline dictionary, 英和辞典, learn japanese, study tool, learn kanji
if JED is not working for you, please try an alternative:
IMI - Japanese Dictionary
Aedict
WWWJDIC for Android
Kabuto Japanese Dictionary
Makimono Japanese Dictionary
Japanese plus
Cooori JED
Akebi Japanese Dictionary
------------------------------------
JED is an offline Japanese Dictionary.
FAQ:
- If your app stopped working, please try to delete the jed folder on your sd card and re-install the app from scratch.
- The server is under heavy load, download might get slow.
Please be patient and retry.
- The app works offline once the dictionary files are downloaded, BUT sends analytics data (Google) if wifi is available!
- User data ( tags! ) gets deleted when updated!
Current features:
- Works offline
- Search and view results as you type!
- Multiple dictionaries ( English-Japanese, French-Japanese, Spanish-Japanese )
- Search in readings (romaji), meanings (english) and japanese (kanji, hiragana and katakana)
- Search results can contain words, expressions, kanji (both onyomi and kunyomi) and inflected form for adjectives and verbs.
- Filters results based on content type (meaning, reading, character type, parts of speech, common words, common kanji)
- Radicals lookup
- tags (vocabulary list) with possibility to search and export to Google Docs and Anki.
- Animated Stroke Order Diagrams for kanji
- Copy-Paste for most of the field and a notepad to gather information
- Move to SD card (above 2.2)
Acknowledgements:
- Electronic Dictionaries Research Groups
- KanjiVG
- Tatoeba
- KanjiCafe
keywords: japanese offline dictionary, 英和辞典, learn japanese, study tool, learn kanji
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4.4
7,256 total
5 5,035
4 1,227
3 408
2 212
1 374
A Google User
Great but still need some improvement to be excellent I love it so much. Learning japanese is become simpler for me now. But still i have to look back to my Kanji Dictionary because i couldnt find some words here. So many word that contains more than one kanji and when we dont even know the read then we search it by radicals, its only showing one kanji. Means u have to re-checking for the other one. It takes more time. But over all this is a great apps. Good job.
Timmy Saar
The best English-Japanese dictionary EVER I have been learning Japanese for 3 years now and have studied in Japan (N3 on the JLPT). JED has been my constant companion throughout it all, and I honestly don't know what I would do without it. The offline mode is a lifesaver when I'm abroad. Radical lookup, handwritten diagrams -- it's everything you need. I love how you can look up phrases and see example sentences. Simply fantastic.
A Google User
Richly featured, very usable This app is an amazing resource for the studier of the Japanese language. It's flexible, and yest at the same time fairly simple. Features such as the stroke-order digrams round out the package and make it an indispensable ttol in the study armory. I'm stunned this thing is free, and I'm with another reviewer in calling for a financial contribution link for the developer.
A Google User
A "must have" dictionary Jed is great indeed. If you're looking for a Japanese/English, English/Japanese dictionary, this is one of your best options. For those of us who aren't good at kanji, the dictionary has furigana (hiragana) above each kanji. You can also save lists of words and name them for quick reference or study.
Lusi Peku
Good, but.. I use this a lot and it a great app that help me learning japanese when i'm not in class. But it'll suddenly error sometimes and i always have to reinstall it. Installing this app is such a pain in the ass because i have to keep it on screen or it will fail (sometimes i have to pray while waiting). The bar move like snail. But still this dictionary is the best i ever know.
alice mariah virginia rose
Amazing! This is the first time I've actually WANTED to rate an app. This app was everything I wanted and more! <3 not only can type in the word you want to find, you can also narrow down your results! And I was NOT expecting the kanji by radicals recognizer! <3 I still think kanji by radicals is the best thing I've ever found and that this app has it made it amazing. ~ I can't believe its FREE!
User reviews
Great but still need some improvement to be excellent I love it so much. Learning japanese is become simpler for me now. But still i have to look back to my Kanji Dictionary because i couldnt find some words here. So many word that contains more than one kanji and when we dont even know the read then we search it by radicals, its only showing one kanji. Means u have to re-checking for the other one. It takes more time. But over all this is a great apps. Good job.
The best English-Japanese dictionary EVER I have been learning Japanese for 3 years now and have studied in Japan (N3 on the JLPT). JED has been my constant companion throughout it all, and I honestly don't know what I would do without it. The offline mode is a lifesaver when I'm abroad. Radical lookup, handwritten diagrams -- it's everything you need. I love how you can look up phrases and see example sentences. Simply fantastic.
Richly featured, very usable This app is an amazing resource for the studier of the Japanese language. It's flexible, and yest at the same time fairly simple. Features such as the stroke-order digrams round out the package and make it an indispensable ttol in the study armory. I'm stunned this thing is free, and I'm with another reviewer in calling for a financial contribution link for the developer.
A "must have" dictionary Jed is great indeed. If you're looking for a Japanese/English, English/Japanese dictionary, this is one of your best options. For those of us who aren't good at kanji, the dictionary has furigana (hiragana) above each kanji. You can also save lists of words and name them for quick reference or study.
Good, but.. I use this a lot and it a great app that help me learning japanese when i'm not in class. But it'll suddenly error sometimes and i always have to reinstall it. Installing this app is such a pain in the ass because i have to keep it on screen or it will fail (sometimes i have to pray while waiting). The bar move like snail. But still this dictionary is the best i ever know.
Amazing! This is the first time I've actually WANTED to rate an app. This app was everything I wanted and more! <3 not only can type in the word you want to find, you can also narrow down your results! And I was NOT expecting the kanji by radicals recognizer! <3 I still think kanji by radicals is the best thing I've ever found and that this app has it made it amazing. ~ I can't believe its FREE!
Very useful! Very useful application! I use it all the time when I'm looking for Kanji that I don't know how to read. I combine it with Kanji Draw (I guess the stroke order, which is fairly simple to do), and if Kanji Draw finds what I'm looking for (sometimes my stroke order will be off, or I missed some marks), then JED will always find what I'm looking for, giving me every meaning, reading, and how to properly use the word in sentences. I use to have Kotoba on my iPod Touch, and this is a great alternative for Android! I do wish that I could get the nicer look, like in Pictures 3-6, rather than the default, hard-coded look. It doesn't take off any points, considering I'd prefer functionality over looks for the purpose it serves, but it'd be a nice option. (HTC Droid DNA)
すごい JED！ Awesome. I had tried this program on a motorola atrix and it would not install correctly. I upgraded to a samsung galaxy note and now it works perfectly. Thank you for making this program available. Having the wwwjdic in my pocket whenever i want it is a God send, fast interface too！The storage usage is really not that much for modern devices.
Best Japanese dictionary Really convenient, love that you don't need data or WiFi connection to use it. But recently the app has a kind of tracer effect or blurring when I scroll down the definition page to see examples and conjugations. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it still does it. Please fix!
Fantastic app Just a couple of things I'd like: Kanji recognition (though the search by radicals is useful too) Clearer definitions or fewer in the cases of some... there are often several definitions for the same word that native Japanese seem to disagree with... Beyond that, it's a superb app! It's far cheaper than a denshi jisho and it's offline unlike many others... Keep up the too work!
Japan resident, Japanese language student It's not bad, but it's not very practical. It tends to give unusual words and unused pronounciations. Like the provided pronounciation for 風邪 is wrong, the correct かぜ is only listed as an alternative and easy to miss. However the kanji search by radical is invaluable as is the ability to look up phrases. For general words I'd recommend something else.
Amazing This app has been a lifesaver. The dictionary is vast and very helpful, with some very nice features. I'd like to see more examples of how each word or term is used, but I really can't find any notable flaws with this app.どうも有難う御座います！！
Necessity Rarely do reviews, can't hold myself back here though. Started learning Japanese 5 years ago, live here now. All this time JED helped me tremendously (esp.in combination with anki). Love the sentence examples. There are two things that would make it perfect: the ability to add new entries to the dictionary, and kanji recognition (need to use different app simultaneously). Apart from that, great! Thank you!
More features Been using JED for years now and I absolutely love it. It's helped me out in many a dire situation. Was just wondering if it's possible to add an option so you can add your own entries or delete entries, or an online mode and download other people's entries and notes about certain words. I'm sure people would happily pay for that. Again, thank you for your hard work. Tried to email to thank you but address is no longer active. Great product. I recommend it to all.
fonts please... apart from that: superb!!! Please create the possibility for a font directory and font setting... I spent almost an hour trying to find a kanji (誤) because the shown chinese font is sooooo different from the japanese (the japanese is closer to this:呉....search for a pic of the kanji).... If option for font is possible, it deserves 5star!!! (sadly rooting my phone,and changing the default font is not an option for me)
Used to woork great.... I installed this app a few years ago and it was wonderful and very useful. Recently however it has begun crashing my phone. It opens fine, but as soon as I enter a search item I get error messages and it casues the phone to reboot. If you can get it to work, I recommend it highly.
Great, but buggy? Used this app when I lived in Japan. Conjugations of verbs and kanji stroke order diagrams are invaluable. Since upgrading to an S6, every time I scroll it goes blurry, bounces up and down and won't scroll all the way to the bottom. Installing and reinstalling didn't help. Would love a fix as I'm studying Japanese again!
This is a really useful and brilliant app over all; the dictionaries however keeping going invalid at random. An uninstall and reinstall worked only as a temporary fix and even then, there is trouble. I hope this app will work better soon, it's been a huge help in my studies. ありがとな。
Priceless This application has completely replaced my Japanese electronic dictionary. It would deserve 6 start if not for the "- User data ( especially tags!!! ) gets deleted when updated!" part. Tags are one of the really smart things about this app. Thanks for saving my Japanese trip ;)
5 Stars before the update... After the last update, I cannot get the app to open. I click on it, the screen flashes like it's going to open, then nothing. If I click again, I get the option to install the other dictionaries. I have tried installing just the English-Japanese dictionary alone, installing with the lite dictionary, and installing with the lite and kanji order diagrams. Nothing works. I haven't installed the Spanish or French dictionaries though. Frustrating!
This is amazing! A key, must have dictionary. There were a lot of words I couldn't find in Google translate or other Japanese translation dictionaries that I was able to find here. This app is so user friendly! Love that you can put your own tags on words.
Great app - but Anki integration broke :( I love this app, especially for its tag feature. It used to export tags to anki and that worked great. Then Anki2.0 came and the export feature stopped working I hope an update fixes anki integration soon. That will make the app 5 stars again, IMHO.
Best dictionary It is the only dictionary(Jap/Eng) I use because it doesn't load much my ROM and it's effective. I use it the most to translate some Kanji I don't know from Japanese friends. I 5stars it because I don't have any bugs,it works well. Thanks :D
The best japanese dictionary Best jap dictionary in market. However, it was good until I updated my note 4 to Marshmallow. Whenever I try to scroll down, everything becomes blurry. Same thing happens on my s7 edge as well (also on Marshmallow). It was fine in Lollipop
Still great but... *edit* unfortunately, this app is starting to show its age as Android has moved on and improved but the app hasn't been updated. One glaring issue is that when you scroll you get terrible screen flickering and the text becomes unreadable. It will eventually fix itself, but it's a bit inconvenient. Still a very good app, it just needs a little TLC.
For me, this is the best jap-eng dictionary ever. I have tried many dictionaries and none of them are even close to this. It is very easy to use and has numerous entries. Like I would find anything and more. Now that I am switching to iphone I really want to cry over not having JED any more.
Thanks for the best application. This is an excellent application. Really good for daily basis and for kanji. Every Japanese language learners MUST HAVE app. Really really thanks to all of you who developed this Magic application. One more thing. I would like to give you a 7 star rating. . Yoroshiku onegai shimasu. .
Great app, updated dictionary New dictionary update brings huge improvement, now much more comprehensive. Please make it optional for all 15 conjugations of verbs to not show in search results. It's frustrating having to scroll through them all to get to the next word. Also I'm not seeing the new interface on my phone even though I'm sure I have the latest version.
The best available, but could be better. Of all the Japanese dictionary apps available, this one is the best. However, it could be better. I am very frustrated by how the kanji radical section works. If a radical is in more than 50 kanji, the program will only show you 50 results. I need to see all of them on one list. I don't need to be combining other radicals and looking through every combination in a tedious process just so I can see all the kanji that have a particular radical. Show us all the kanji with that radical please.
Scrolling bug This app used to work fantasically. Best dictionary ever. But now there is a scrolling bug when im using my samsung note5. The words break into duplicates and overlap each other. I cant read a thing when im scrolling! Please please fix this!
Excellent! While the developer may be spending their time making money elsewhere this dictionary is by far the best I've come across from English to Japanese. The only thing missing are more information surrounding each term. But that I can look for elsewhere. Love this, thank you.
Very comprehensive! Feature-wise, I think it's very good. So far the best dictionary I've used, even better than Aedict. Dictionary + conjugation of not only group 1 and group 2 verbs, but also grp 3! The only nitpicking I have now is that the touch-zone for the cross symbol to delete the currently entered text in the search box at the top with one touch is too small. I have to press to the right half of the image of the cross to trigger the clearing of the text box, making it a little hard to switch between searches quickly.
As a functional dictionary, it's great, but for some reason whenever I scroll up or down on any menu, it twitches all over the place, and the text spasms up and down like crazy. Idk if this is just my phone or the Android version, but it'd be nice to have this debugged~
Too basic The dictionary is missing some basic readings and kanji. It also doesn't parse multiple kanji or spaces very well for words. There is no way to sort your search results in any way if you're looking for a difficult kanji. You can filter results, which helps a little, but I've rarely found it helpful. A plus side? It has a dark interface for those of us with AMOLED screens. Pass on this app and use Aedict instead.
Amazing This has been an amazing and extremely simple and easy-to-use dictionary. While I try to avoid romaji, one nice feature is that you can search up Japanese words using romaji spelling if you're in a hurry and don't want to use hiragana/katakana. It also breaks down radicals of compound kanji, and gives you all forms of a verb (two very useful features). Maybe 5-10% of the words I've looked up haven't been in the database, possibly due to being slang or newer versions of words. Only reason it's not 5-star.
Buggy, doesn't work Wanted a good Japanese dictionary like Kotoba! from iOS. But JED keeps showing "An error occurred during the search" when I try to use it. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S4. Disappointed that it's not working.
Great dictionary you can search for a plenty of words that you cannot find in other dictionaries. But unfortunately I cannot use its full contents. Whenever I try to open a word row in the list, the application gives a bug report forcing the application to close.
Won't download, can't contact devs I get to the bit where you click fetch and then it says it failed. I know this is a good app - when it works. But upon contacting the devs to see if there was a workaround, it came back as delivery failed. I am sad.
Love the app! But I'd like to file a bug report, and contact email seems to be out of service, what should I do? Short description: on devices that don't have a menu button, I can't reach the app's settings. Thanks!
Blurred when scrolling How to fix blurred characters when either scrolling up or down? I didn't have this issue when I first installed it early this year 2016. I tried installing it on another device recently just for testing and that device suffers from the same problem. Would easily rate 5 stars for this app but due to this bug, I would rate it 3.
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What's New
- Fix for missing dictionaries during installation.
- Fix for FC during install cancellation
Note: If these were not a problem for you, you can skip this update.
Additional information
Updated
July 13, 2013
Installs
500,000 - 1,000,000
Current Version
0.5.5
Requires Android
1.5 and up
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Attila Korompai
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