Description
Japanese and kanji online dictionaryAndroid frontend for Jim Breen's WWWJDIC
Donate version available.
*** New: Version 2.0 now supports tablets and Japanese text-to-speech.
Features
* (new) Italian dictionary support
* (new) ICS support
* full tablet (Honeycomb) support
* Japanese pronunciation (install 'N2 TTS' from Market to enable)
* text to speech for kanji and dictionary entry translations (English/German/French/Spanish/Italian)
* multi-radical kanji search
* kanji of the day widget
* Japanese sentence translation
* example search with approximately 150,000 examples (Japanese/English pairs)
* example word breakdown/translation
* animated stroke order diagrams for over 6000 kanji
* history and favorites
* history and favorites backup and restore
* favorites export to CSV and Anki
* handwriting recognition (including offline via the Kanji Recognizer app)
* OCR-based handwritten kanji recognition, does not require correct stroke order
* Optical Character Recognition (OCR) -- just take a picture of any kanji you want to look up
* multiple dictionary lookup (General/Japanese Names/Computing/Life Sciences and more)
* multiple languages supported (German/French/Russian/Swedish/Hungarian/Spanish/Dutch/Slovenian/Italian)
* romaji input
* kanji compound search
* kanji lookup by reading, meaning, radical or stroke count
* radical table showing radical variations
* automatic mirror selection for best performance
About permissions:
* Camera permission is needed for OCR
* Coarse location is needed to select the closest WWWJDIC mirror
* For more details, see the FAQ:
http://code.google.com/p/wwwjdic/wiki/FAQ
Email me for bug reports and feature requests:
wwwjdic.android@gmail.com
Follow me on Twitter for latest updates: @kapitanpetko
http://twitter.com/kapitanpetko
Release announcements and detailed explanation of new features on my blog:
http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/search/label/wwwjdic
Google+ page:
https://plus.google.com/105457662805333954065/
mariah
Feb 27, 2012 7:14:58 PM
Great app Great app, but suddenly my kanji of the day widget is broke and keeps coming up with an error...
nick
Feb 19, 2012 4:55:26 PM
@Skeptical Permissions are explained in the description: camera is for OCR, coarse location is finding the nearest mirror.
James
Feb 18, 2012 4:07:34 PM
Skeptical Why does this app require acres to my location and cameras? Otherwise I would give a thumbs up.
Aaron
Feb 15, 2012 11:21:46 AM
Snoops IMEI number continuously.
Surronded
Feb 5, 2012 5:07:56 PM
Best of the best A wonderful app. The hand writing recognition is amazingly useful.
Sowande
Jan 23, 2012 12:08:42 PM
Beautiful This is such a great app for such an amazing project. Please support this dev. A widget would be great too!!! Hint hint.
Myokou
Jan 13, 2012 5:53:26 PM
Very useful!
aelfwyne
Jan 9, 2012 1:51:11 AM
Good. I like it, unfortunately the recommended TTS app is not available in the United States market - banned from being downloaded by in the US. Short-sighted developers who think only people in Japan would want something Japanese... But that's not under the control of WWWJDIC's developer, I just wish he'd have recommended something that could actually be downloaded by those who need an English-Japanese dictionary.
Igal
Jan 6, 2012 7:12:24 PM
Poor, unrelated and unsorted results When you search for something, it often displays dozens of totally unrelated results, while the word that actually matches your search is either missing or hidden far down amongst irrelevant entries.
Ben
Dec 9, 2011 6:57:17 AM
Absolutely useless Unless you already read Japanese I wouldn't bother. I was hoping to translate some phrases from the manual of my Japanese import car. Useless.