Jsho - Japanese Dictionary

Richard L

Contains ads

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

This is a perfect app because it does exactly one thing and does it well: it's an English-Japanese dictionary. That's it. No extraneous features to bloat it. You look up words and it gives you definitions. That's all it needs to be. And it functions perfectly fine offline too. My only issue is that you can't remove the ad, but it's so minor and unobtrusive that it doesn't matter.

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.

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