Japanese Dictionary Takoboto

Takoboto

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About this app

Offline Japanese-English dictionary and Japanese language learning study tool. Includes example sentences, kanji information and conjugated forms for each word. Some Japanese words are also translated to many other languages (see below).

The words can be searched using kanji, kana, romaji or latin alphabets. Full sentences and conjugated forms are also recognized. Kanji can be searched by selecting multiple radicals.

FREE FEATURES:

- 200,000+ Japanese words with English translations
- Search as you type with kanji, kana, romaji or alphabet
- Example phrases to see how words are used
- Easy kanji search by selecting multiple radicals
- Conjugations are provided and can be searched as well
- Common misspellings are recognized
- Voice audio using text-to-speech
- Dark theme for studying Japanese at night
- Export to AnkiDroid
- Favorites, history and custom lists of words for review
- Flashcards
- Can add your own custom translations and contribute new words
- Ready-made study lists
- Kana charts
- Japanese grammar links to external web sites
- Pitch display
- Japanese definitions for some words

TAKOBOTO CLOUD (requires paid subscription):

- Synchronize your lists and study data
- Backup your lists and translations to the cloud
- Share lists with others and download shared online study lists
- Access extra online resources such as real voice audio
- Remove ads from study game

OTHER FEATURES (ads sponsored):

- Study game / study quizzes (beta)

LANGUAGES:

The Japanese words are partially translated to many languages. Translations can be contributed directly from the app too. Available languages are:

- Japanese ↔ English (100% translated)
- Japanese ↔ German (66% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Russian (43% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Spanish (31% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Dutch (29% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Hungarian (28% translated)
- Japanese ↔ French (26% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Thai (23% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Portuguese (22% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Indonesian (20% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Swedish (20% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Chinese (19% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Italian (19% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Polish (18% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Finnish (17% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Korean (17% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Persian (16% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Vietnamese (16% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Ukrainian (15% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Arabic (15% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Czech (14% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Danish (12% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Romanian (12% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Slovene (11% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Greek (11% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Lithuanian (8% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Malay (8% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Hindi (8% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Latvian (7% translated)
- Japanese ↔ Tagalog (6% translated)

Like most of the Japanese dictionary apps out there, the data is from the awesome JMdict project made by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group thanks to Jim Breen and others.

BETA TESTING

If you'd like to get more frequent updates with experimental features (and bugs), please subscribe to receive beta versions by following this link:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/jp.takoboto

Ratings and reviews

Great dictionary for English to Japanese. You can search for words in multiple ways, create your own lists of words and learn them with a simple flashcards feature (like AnkiDroid without the reviewing feature). There are also premade lists such as Kanji and vocab for N5 to N1, numbers, counting, etc. It's very useful if you're trying to learn Japanese!

I absolutely love it, can't imagine my life without this app anymore. When I watch anime, I have it open to check the words I hear. When I'm in Japan and trying to communicate, I can quickly pull it up to look up a word. The kanji breakdown and the verb forms are super useful and give a valuable insight that helps me remember the words. All the features are thoughtfully designed and the app works without any issues. Reliable and valuable tool, highly recommend it!

Takoboto is a super-good offline Japanese dictionary with the ability to also look up grammar, make word lists (and extract them into Ankidroid), and an increasing list of features in its top menu. And, while it also has radicals to look up kanji, it pairs especially well with a japanese handwriting keyboard (like the one you can find in gboard), and splits pretty well to the top of the screen on a phone while reading Japanese in something else! Definitely my favorite Japanese dictionary app~ ^^

What's new

Kanji search by handwriting.
Write with AI: Correct your particles, grammar, phrasing.
Added more long tap menu options in search results.
Added draggable scrollbar in words list.