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Shirabe Jisho 4+
Offline dictionary and more
Blazej Stanek
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Simple but powerful Japanese-English, English-Japanese dictionary app.
The app's features include:
● Over 170.000 dictionary entries with readings and english meaning
● Over 6.500 kanji characters with stroke order
● Over 730.000 Japanese names, place names and institution names
● Over 147.000 example sentences with translation
● Instantaneous search results
● Character input by kanji and kana handwriting recognition. Recognition algorithm can handle wrong stroke order and small mistakes.
● When multiple similar characters are found, you don't need to redo drawing after each character - just long press to see a preview
● Search by kanji radicals (for example 日 and 月 will find 明)
● Wildcard search - "*" can replace any number of characters and "?" can replace any single character. Works both with English and Japanese words.
● Search by kanji, kana and romaji - "じしょ", "じsho" and "jisho" will give the same search results
● Kanji lists by JLPT level and school grade (1 - 6)
● Multiple word lists divided by subject, grammatical function, JLPT level and more
What’s New
Version 1.9.5
fixed crash when opening some words
ui fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Cannot live without it when living abroad in Japan
I started using this dictionary since I have started learning Japanese about 2 years ago. I must say, it is the best out of many others I have tried. The interface is clean and intuitive. The dictionary has probably 98% of what I am looking for, just mostly missing a few recent terms and slangs from the internet. It’s also good to see which vocabulary is a frequently used term versus infrequent ones. The vocabulary category lists is very useful, particularly for when I need to study before tests.
I would like to suggest a few things, although I understand it might be quite an effort to do so. There are many words means the same thing, but the nuance just simply don’t translate well into English. Sometimes the example sentences help, but many don’t have those examples. Maybe users can submit usage examples in the future?
When I am looking under the vocabulary list, I wish there is category for words that has a pattern of [xっxり], which is so often used in speech or written Japanese. If possible, maybe in the future I can make my own customize list(s) besides bookmarking in a giant one?
Lastly, I sometimes see grammar in the dictionary app but not really completely included. Probably grammar points alone would make a great separate app, but having it in one dictionary will be much appreciated.
I wish one day we may see a thesaurus app from the dev with both similar and opposite meaning words, too. But maybe I am asking too much already.
Anyway, it’s great to have a premium dictionary app that just works.
Really great dictionary
Can search in Japanese or English, draw kanji, search in romaji, anything. Also gives partial matches to your search and other related things that contain what you searched for, and if, for instance, you search for something with a particle in it that you didn’t realize was a particle, it will recognize it and give you the base word and the particle. Also gives literally all of the different conjugations for literally almost every single word. Present, past, positive, negative, everything. Also has example sentences for everything. Really an amazing app. Highly recommend.
Shirabe Jisho
This app is the best!
You can even use it online.
I would recommend this app to everyone who are studying Japanese
You can use this app in some many ways.
You can use it as a dictionary.
You can use it with learning new kana and Kanji.
It even has vocabulary and kanji for JLPT.
You can make flashcards to learn Kanji or vocabulary.
And you can make bookmarks for different categories and then save there the new word or kanji that you learn.
This app has helped me so many times.
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- Blazej Stanek
- Size
- 176.2 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Japanese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2015 Błażej Stanek
- Price
- Free