Compare Japanese Dictionary App and Kanji Essentials App

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This iOS dictionary contains over 175,000 Japanese translations in seven languages including technical, academic and scientific words. Find out more

This iOS app provides a quick reference guide for learning the 1,945 General-Use Kanji. Find out more

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Introducing one of the easiest Japanese dictionaries with over 175,000 words with translations in seven languages.

Includes technical, academic, scientific words as well as special words that may not be used in every-day conversational Japanese.

Easy to use with simple gestures:-

The Full Dictionary includes access to the all Japanese translations of:

Plus it's easy to search in Hiragana, Katakana or Romaji at anytime - no need to install the Japanese Keyboard to find words!

A quick reference guide for learning the 1,945 General-Use Kanji officially documented by the Japanese Ministry of Education.

Ideal for students who already know Hiragana and Katakana, this learning tool will help you to:

Learning Japanese iPhone and iPad apps © Dale Clifford 2012-2020.
These applications made possible by the following resources:

The Japanese government published a list of the 1,945 most commonly-used basic kanji in 1981 and is freely available. This database contains 27 seperate descriptions (cells) of each basic Japanese kanji which cover such fields as classification, frequency of use, number of strokes, pronunciation, etc.
The KANJIDIC2 dictionary files licensed from The Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v3.0 licence.
Sentence examples compiled by Professor Yasuhito Tanaka at Hyogo University and his students are available under a Creative Commons Attribution (France) v2.0 licence.