wishoTouch Japanese dictionary 17+
Fast Kanji Lookup, Word Search
sazanami software
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- £14.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Save time looking up Japanese with wishoTouch. This universal app turns your iPhone/iPad into a powerful, easy-to-use dictionary that packs some unique features.
wishoTouch comes with its own full-screen kanji handwriting pad. You need to know the stroke order, but results are sorted in such a way that most of the time you don't need to draw the whole character. You can also find kanji by radical, number of strokes, meaning etc., rotate the device to quickly thumb through related characters, and watch interactive stroke-order animations for 6,355 kanji.
And that's not all. Tight integration with a word dictionary lets you seamlessly jump between a kanji and its compounds. This integration makes use of multitouch gestures: touching a kanji shows its details, while touch-holding gives you other options.
Hunting for Japanese words and kanji has never been simpler or more enjoyable!
NOTE: Basic knowledge of hiragana and kanji stroke order is recommended.
FEATURES include:
- Incremental search in English and Japanese
- Autocorrect in English and romaji
- Bookmark, annotate and share entries
- Split View/Slide Over Multitasking Mode (iPad)
- Jump to other apps and web dictionaries
- Share Extension to look up from other apps
- Share Extension to add cards to Anki
- Spotlight search for kanji
- Speech recognition in English and Japanese (iOS 10+)
- Today Widget showing kanji and their compounds
- Apple Watch app
- Night mode (dark mode)
- Optional add-ons (one-time purchase, NOT subscription)
This app uses the JMDICT, KANJIDIC2 and RADKFILE Japanese dictionary files. These files are property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group’s licence.
KanjiVG is © Ulrich Apel and used under the CC Attribution Share-Alike license.
What’s New
Version 4.5.2
- Bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
2017 updates
The app looks very nice and modern, especially with the dark theme. Overall very nicely presented and professionally made. Now it would be fantastic if there was a SRS flashcard add-on.
An excellent Kanji dictionary for learners of all levels
I’ve been using this app for a long time now and the latest release has improved an already great app enormously.
The user interface has been simplified at the same time as extending the functionality and they have gone a great job of making the iPhone and iPad interfaces feel consistent while still making use of the resolution available on each platform.
It’s easy to search for Kanji by multiple radicals and also using handwriting recognition, although it’s strict about the stroke order rather than effectively doing OCR of the final result, even though it has an OCR module for recognising individual characters using the camera. It has lots of compounds and examples as well as including things like verb conjugations. That makes it a great tool for Japanese learners of all levels.
I bought it such a long time ago that I’ve forgotten the cost of the app, but I remember it not being cheap, especially if you add in the in app purchases of the extra modules, but given the use I’ve had out of it over that time, it’s been well worth it. Highly recommended.
Expensive / Kanji lookup is stroke order dependent.
The main reason for buying this should be the kanji lookup by stroke input. Brilliant idea, but the elephant in the room is that LOOKUP IS STROKE ORDER DEPENDENT :( This almost totally defeats the object, unless you are looking for the simplest of kanji it's not easy to guess the stroke order. If you know the stroke order of a complex kanji you probably know what it means already. Developers need to hurry up and sort this out!
Another downside, this app is EXPENSIVE. Then there's the 'extras' that don't come included. I never tried the kanji OCR module so I can't comment. However, selling 'example sentences' as an add-on module is a rip-off. A Japanese dictionary is all but useless without practical word use examples. If you're after an excellent dictionary with tons of examples, verb conjugations, stroke order animations and compound kanji lookup then buy the one simply called 'Japanese' it's much better.
In-App Purchases
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Information
- Provider
- sazanami software
- Size
- 412.1 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 5.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Japanese
- Age Rating
- 17+ Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © sazanami software
- Price
- £14.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Kanji Recognizer (OCR) £4.99
- Example Sentences £4.99
- Enhanced Audio £4.99
- Pro Handwriting £4.99
- JLPT Flashcards £4.99
- Premium Bundle £17.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.