Nihongo - Japanese Dictionary 4+

Kanji, kana, vocab and grammar

Serpenti Sei Japan

Designed for iPad

    • 4.9 • 289 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Nihongo is an offline Japanese dictionary, flashcard app, and reading assistant, designed to make the best use of the time you dedicate to studying Japanese.

Our dictionary is made to find what you're looking for fast, with the words Japanese speakers actually use at the top of every search result, and every word marked as "common", "uncommon", or "rare".

"Clippings", our reading assistant, is what makes Nihongo stand apart from other dictionaries. Paste in Japanese text from a website, email, an eBook, or anywhere else, and we'll add furigana or romaji to every word. We also enable you to tap on any word to see its definition. This will truly change the way you read Japanese. And now, you can get the same experience right in Safari using our Safari extension.

Personal experience (as well as a good deal of research in second-language acquisition) has shown us that the words that you're most likely to remember are the words that you're encountering naturally. To this end Nihongo automatically draws from your search history and clippings to compile flashcard decks filled with words for which you already have context. This makes it easy to study both the words you looked up during Japanese class, and those that appear in your favorite song or videogame. And by adding notes to the back of flashcards you can further connect each vocabulary word to your personal contextual understanding.

Kanji flashcards prompt you to draw the missing kanji from the words you're studying, creating stronger connections between the characters and their real-world use. Built-in kanji decks give you 2 or 3 key words to study for each kanji.

This app is only possible because of the JMDict (edrdg.org) and Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) projects. I highly encourage you to support these incredible projects that make apps like Nihongo possible!

DICTIONARY
* Over 180,000 words, 165,000 example sentences, and 6000 kanji entries.
* Every word clearly marked as common, uncommon, or rare.
* Add your own notes to any dictionary entry.
* Quickly identify transitive/intransitive word pairs.
* Audio pronunciations of words and example sentences (Requires Nihongo Pro)

PHOTO LOOKUP (OCR) [Pro]
* Look up words just by taking a picture.
* Uses Google Cloud Vision to provide high-quality text recognition.
* Just tap on a word to look it up.

CLIPPINGS (READING ASSISTANT) [Pro]
* Adds furigana or romaji to text pasted into the app.
* Tap on any word to see its definition without leaving the clipping.
* Flashcard deck automatically created so you can study the new words in a clipping.
* Display text horizontally or vertically.
* Have Nihongo read any clipping out loud.

FLASHCARDS [Pro]
* Flashcards automatically generated from words you lookup in the dictionary or paste into the app.
* Nihongo learns what words you know, and won't bother you again with words you've mastered.
* Built-in kanji flashcard decks up through Middle School.
* Intuitive spaced repetition flashcard system for vocabulary and kanji drawing.
* Level up flashcards by studying every day.
* No penalty for missing a day of study, come back anytime.

SEARCH
* Search using English, Japanese, or romaji.
* Supports searching for conjugated words in both English and Japanese.
* Search for kanji using radicals and stroke counts.

SAFARI EXTENSION [Pro]
* Add furigana or romaji to webpages.
* Tap on words to see definition within Safari.

Nihongo Pro Terms of Use
Read our full Terms of Service at https://nihongo-app.com/terms_of_use.html.

What’s New

Version 1.31.13

Improvements
* Add a label to the subscription options screen indicating a sale on lifetime subscriptions.
* Add the ability to opt-in to contributing flashcard statistics to a research project.

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
289 Ratings

289 Ratings

BaptouFragile ,

Waouh !

Rien que pour l’OCR plus rapide et mieux fichu (possibilité de revenir à la photo pour voir un autre mot) que l’app Google Translate, ca vaut le coup.
Mais en plus de ca c’est un très bon dictionnaire rapide et en français, qui permet en plus de créer facilement des flashcards avec nos propres photos pour se rappeler du contexte d’apprentissage.
Je suis bluffé !

ドリアン十二 ,

Avis « carte mémoire »

Bonjour, je voudrais vous faire part de mon avis concernant le mode de jeu « carte mémoire ». Tout d’abord j’aimerais vous remercier pour le travail apporté pour le développement et la création de cette application qui m’est vraiment très utile tout les jours pour mon apprentissage du japonais.

Possédant l’abonnement à vie de Nihongo, j’ai la possibilité de créer des coupures permettant de retrouver facilement par catégorie les mots de vocabulaire que j’ai enregistré pour ainsi apprendre les kanjis et leurs tracer (entre autres).

Mon « problème » étant, j’aimerais pouvoir utiliser chaque coupure comportant leurs mots dans un mode de carte plus libre qui simplement défilerais chacun des mots de la coupure en aléatoire (ou pas) sans que l’application m’impose par série les mots de la coupure. Je voudrais tomber sur la suite de la liste sans recommencer 3 fois les mots imposés. Cette option est très pratique dans certain cas mais problématique quand on ne veux pas suivre cette logique.

Je vous encourage à continuer de développer cette application car c’est une belle mine d’or ! Bonne continuation à vous.

Cyp's Cnd ,

Incroyable

J’utilise cette application depuis 2021 quand j’ai commencé à apprendre le japonais. Aujourd’hui en 2024 je vais rentrer en deuxième année d’étude japonaise à la fac et je me sert de cette application tous les jours plusieurs fois.

J’ai toujours énormément apprécié le fait que l’application ne vous force pas à payer l’abonnement premium pour profiter de sa base de données.

Je ne payais donc pas l’abonnement jusqu’à présent, mais la nouvelle mise à jour avec l’histoire des kanji et leur évolution est absolument incroyable, rien que pour ça j’ai décider de payer l’abonnement :)

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  • Family Sharing

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