Nihongo - Japanese Dictionary 4+

Name: Nihongo - Japanese Dictionary
Rating: 4.7 (1563 reviews)
Author: Serpenti Sei LLC

Serpenti Sei LLC

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- 4.7 • 1,563件の評価

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説明

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.

2024年3月12日

バージョン 1.30.9

Bug Fixes
* Fix issue where the Safari integration was not working properly on iOS 17.4.

4.7／5

1,563件の評価

Most Amazing Dictionary I've Seen Yet

I've been studying Japanese for quite a long time, and the quality of life improvements this app brings to my study is absolutely amazing. The clippings feature and the ability to furigana to websites in order to practice reading words I haven't encountered before is really something I never though I would get for a long time from a dictionary app.

Two features that I would love to see, if at all possible: Whenever you insert a sentence into the search bar, it would be amazing if it automatically broke the sentence down and searched each word in the sentence without having to put it into a clipping.

Also if we could get an actual Japanese version of the app (with Japanese interface and definitions) to help us eventually ween out of having to have those English crutches for our study, this app would be nearly perfect.

A friend of mine found this app and showed it to me and I haven't gone back since. Keep doing what you're doing! This app is amazing!

Great for Reading Books

This app has become indispensable for me, as I can now photograph entire pages from a paper book and look up unknown words on the fly. It’s actually more elegant than my previous method, which was reading on a Kindle.

One big request: since the camera feature requires internet, can you add a feature to preload multiple photos and have them pre-parsed and able to be recalled without a connection? I just flew out of Japan for the holidays all excited to get reading done on that long flight, and was stuck.

Thanks for reaching out via email! For others who might see this review: the ability to save photos is definitely on my roadmap! In the nearer term, the next update will bring the ability to fall back to on-device text detection which doesn't require an internet connection. It's not as accurate, but could work in a pinch!

Nice features, search bar could use improvement while the search engine itself is nice

What this dictionary has what others don't is how it searches. In most other dictionaries, if you search 気, the results will only have words start with that kanji, but in this one, it includes the words that don't start with it, like 大気, so you get more entries.

It also has furigana which is easier to read, more familiar, and takes up less space on the screen.

But, comparing this to shirabe jisho, I liked how that apps search works. There, all searches are automatic, it opens up the keyboard when you open the app, and the search bar is a bit lower down from the top of the screen so it's easier to reach.
In this app, the searches arent automatic and the seat h bar is all the way at the top of the screen.

Also, if I do a search in the app, go to another app and then switch back, it'll reset to the home screen (not all the time, but pretty frequently).

Thanks for this feedback, as an indie dev I'm definitely working hard to always improve the app and add features like this that will fit more people's workflow. Can't say exactly when I'll get to them, but I've added these suggestions to my backlog, and will try to get to them in a future release!