Jsho - Japanese Dictionary

Contains ads
4.6
7.86K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Jsho is an English-Japanese dictionary that aims to be simple, lightweight, fast and accurate. No unnecessary splash screens and no need to download any additional files.


Features:
 • 100% functional offline

 • Flexible input/search methods
  - Multi-radical kanji search
  - Limited wildcard searching using '*' (JP only and slower than normal searching)
  - Romaji input automatically converted to hiragana
  - Filter search results by noun, adjective, verb etc.

 • Input analysis (accuracy will be improved over time, please expect mistakes)
  - De-inflects conjugated words
  - Attempts to split sentences into individual words and perform searches on each

 • Detailed lexical information
  - Pitch accent & parts of speech info. for words
  - Detailed kanji information
  - Stroke order animation (viewable by tapping kanji on Kanji Details page)
  - Verb conjugation tables

 • Multiple display options
  - Toggle between kana/romaji
  - Select between light & dark themes

 • 3rd party connectivity
  - Send words directly to AnkiDroid
  - Can share words with Jsho from other apps

 • Bookmark search results


Please note:
 • Extracted dictionary files require approx. 37MB of external storage space
 • Ads shown when online ('Remove Ads' is currently disabled due to some issues)
 • Network permission is used only for ads, this app doesn't collect any user data whatsoever
Updated on
Oct 12, 2022

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
No data collected
Learn more about how developers declare collection
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
7.32K reviews
Simon Bass
April 16, 2021
Great, simple dictionary app, except for one thing. It seems results are cut-off sometimes and not all possible results are shown. This is extremely annoying when trying to look at all the words that contain a particular kanji. For example: when searching for "正", 正しい is not in the results. At the very least there should be a way to see further paginated results.
103 people found this review helpful
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Andrew Farrenkopf
October 15, 2023
This is an amazing tool for anyone wanting to learn Japanese and especially Kanji. I just wish I could support the developer because it's such a useful tool, unfortunately the remove ads button appears to be removed and has yet to be re-enabled. Seriously amazing tool to use to look up Kanji and the fact that it's accessible offline is just the cherry on top of this amazing app
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GelusR13
August 30, 2020
It can take a bit of finessing to input a word and sometimes it can be hard to find the one you should use, though it does tell you what words are more commonly used. I use this app mostly because I can input a whole sentence and it'll define each word individually, or when I need to look up the different conjugations of a verb.
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What's new

Fixed sending to AnkiDroid not working on Android 11+