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 love this app. The only thing that would improve it is adding a context menu item so I can highlight and translate from other apps. I use this way more than Google translate and really want the context of the kanji readings and meanings when I'm looking stuff up. I think it would really help me to iterate faster rather than cut and paste every time. Thank you!

I love this app and would be lost without it in my Japanese studies! It is definitely my go to dictionary for Japanese. There is one small problem however -- two radicals are not listed in the radical list, numbers 163 and 170. They are three stroke radicals 阝(town right) and 阝(mound left). Instead there are a couple of kanji with many more strokes that appear in the list. This makes it impossible to find common kanji using these radicals. Thanks again for this app!

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.

What’s new

Platform update