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Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows? 2012/12/18 00:58
I've been using a couple of Android apps on my phone to help translating english word to kanji/kana/romaji, and to look up kanji. I'm looking for something similar that I can run on Windows (regular computer, no tablet/phone/mobile). I also need it to run entirely offline.

On Android, I've been using these:
* JED: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.umibouzu.jed
* Obenkyo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Obenkyo
* KanjiRecognizer: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nick.kanjirecognizer

The last one is probably going to be a hard call on windows, since it requires drawing kanji, and that's hard to do with a mouse :)

But what I'm really looking for is something like the first mentioned app (JED). This is "just" a dictionary, but one that's loaded with information and has many ways to search.

Now to find something that runs on a computer...

I've searched google for a while, but all I could find is BS software and a windows8 app (which I cannot run). Lots of stuff that looks like adware and other BS, and maybe one or two that were way too expensive in comparison.

I already do have Human Japanese on my computer, but it doesn't have much of a dictionary.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
by thany  

... 2012/12/18 12:46
I would look through Jim Breen's page:-
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html

ZKanji may suit you but there are many other options:-
http://zkanji.sourceforge.net/

Good luck!
by GC3 rate this post as useful

Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows? 2012/12/18 18:32
Thanks for the links, I'll check them out.

Jim Breen's page looks daunting O.o

As for ZKanji, how stupid of me that I didn't think of looking at SF.net, there's always some interesting/promising project going on. Thanks for finding that for me ;)
by thany rate this post as useful

Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows? 2012/12/19 00:12
Apologies if it's a repeat from some link on Jim Breen's page, but I have this page bookmarked for good reason:

http://kanji.sljfaq.org/

It's even more fun with a touchpad!
by Pirilampo rate this post as useful

Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows? 2012/12/19 03:04
http://jisho.org/ builds on the Edict files as kept by Jim Breen but as you asked for an offline dictionary, this might be of interest although I hven't used it myself: http://www.tagaini.net/
If you use Firefox, Rikachan (http://www.polarcloud.com/rikaichan/) will be worth looking into
by Hoshisato rate this post as useful

Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows? 2012/12/19 07:30
And if you use Chrome, there's Rikaikun.
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Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows? 2012/12/19 09:23
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Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows? 2012/12/19 20:22
Again, thanks :) I already found Tagaini in the mean time. It was on a blog posting somewhere with a whole bunch of windows software like this (nog Breen's page, tho). I forgot where I found it :/

The firefox and Chrome plugins might be helpful at some point, but not for now. I was actually looking for a dictionary where I can type in kanji/yomi/romaji/english and find their meaning or translation. That's a slightly different use case.

I think Tagaini pretty much covers my use case. Its interface is a little too bloated (not in a bad way tho) for my purposes, but it will do perfectly fine nonetheless. I just hope that whatever dictionary it is built on top of, is a good one :)
by thany rate this post as useful

Re: Proper Japanese dictionary for Windows? 2012/12/19 20:52
Meanwhile, I re-found the blog that I referred to earlier:

http://shinobukaneko.blogspot.nl/2011/03/my-japanese-learning-tools.html

For anyone who's interested :)
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