Nihongo - Japanese Dictionary
Kanji, kana, vocab and grammar
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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.
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In-Apps

Pitch Accents
¥980
Nihongo Pro (Annual)
¥4,900
Nihongo Pro (Monthly)
¥490
Nihongo Pro (3 Months)
¥1,180
Nihongo Pro (Lifetime)
¥17,800

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User Rating

4.75 out of 5

1,672 ratings in Japan

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1,421
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Jonathon’s on

This dictionary is great for study. There are lots of examples to grasp - meaning, grammar and stroke order. I can practice writing in the app. Overall, It’s All round learning app. It’s my go to app when I am stuck. The various example sentences helps me to grasp the meaning of each kanji whenever I get stuck with the definitions. This app is definitely a holistic approach to learning kanji

The best app for reading books

Deji22322 on

I take photos of book’s pages and read them through this app. It’s amazing performance. Please make a small improvement. When I read text from an image, I can tap the search button to find some words, but after there is no way to return to the image. Fix it please.

Great but have some requests…

Yuudesuyo on

I’m working as a Japanese language teacher and have used many apps which can be helpful for Japanese learning. When I found this app, I instantly loved it! This app is great but it would be more amazing if it shows pitch accent of each words. Also, when we use ‘clippings’, it shows meaning of each word but doesn’t translate the whole sentence. If that will be available, this app will be more than perfect!!

よし

manik788 on

To much helpful for beginner

めちゃいいアプリ

1Q84HM on

何でもできるからおすすめです。

Great dictionary

bcaster1979 on

Hands down, the best Japanese-English dictionary app out there. I recommend paying for the upgrade; the flash cards and other features are great for memorization practice, too

just great

Torte4u on

Everything I was missing in other apps, it’s here.

very good..

Nlaitan84 on

the app is totally awesome. I wish to the developer the "example phrase" it can save to a flashcard thanks..

BY FAR THE BEST LANGUAGE APP

DoubleStrain on

The flash cards safari integration for every single word I had to look up is brilliant ! My Japanese has improved exponentially since I started to use this app

Helpful

ms_khalid on

Very helpful as different sentences are given by using the searched word.

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App Info

Category
Reference
Publisher
Serpenti Sei LLC
Languages
English, Dutch, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Spanish
Recent version
1.31.5 (1 week ago )
Released on
Jul 13, 2014 (10 years ago )
Last updated
5 days ago