Jsho - Japanese Dictionary

Richard L

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About this app

Jsho is an English-Japanese dictionary that aims to be simple, lightweight, fast and accurate. No unnecessary splash screens and no need to download any additional files.


Features:
　• 100% functional offline

　• Flexible input/search methods
　　- Multi-radical kanji search
　　- Limited wildcard searching using '*' (JP only and slower than normal searching)
　　- Romaji input automatically converted to hiragana
　　- Filter search results by noun, adjective, verb etc.

　• Input analysis (accuracy will be improved over time, please expect mistakes)
　　- De-inflects conjugated words
　　- Attempts to split sentences into individual words and perform searches on each

　• Detailed lexical information
　　- Pitch accent & parts of speech info. for words
　　- Detailed kanji information
　　- Stroke order animation (viewable by tapping kanji on Kanji Details page)
　　- Verb conjugation tables

　• Multiple display options
　　- Toggle between kana/romaji
　　- Select between light & dark themes

　• 3rd party connectivity
　　- Send words directly to AnkiDroid
　　- Can share words with Jsho from other apps

　• Bookmark search results


Please note:
　• Extracted dictionary files require approx. 37MB of external storage space
　• Ads shown when online ('Remove Ads' is currently disabled due to some issues)
　• Network permission is used only for ads, this app doesn't collect any user data whatsoever

Ratings and reviews

I like this app a lot, I've been using it for many years. I do wish there was a way for me to just search for katakana, or search for words that are a certain amount of characters. I use it a lot for a game called Shiritori, in which you have to make a word out of the end-pieces of a previous word. Some of the rounds are limited as aforementioned, and as the app and website are right now, it's a bit tedious to find a good word. Still love it overall! The app is also very pleasant to look at.

Great, simple dictionary app, except for one thing. It seems results are cut-off sometimes and not all possible results are shown. This is extremely annoying when trying to look at all the words that contain a particular kanji. For example: when searching for "正", 正しい is not in the results. At the very least there should be a way to see further paginated results.

This is a neat and useful app that aids my Japanese learning. I like that the app is offline, a huge plus. This app also offers different ways of searching words. I was able to look up words using Kana, Kanji, Romaji, and English. In addition, you can also select radicals if you don't know the spelling of a specific word.

What’s new

Stability updates