Dictionary

Dictionary pages

Every word and character has its own page. Open one from search, from the Details link in a popup, or with Ctrl+click on a word in a text.

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Word pages

A word page lists every dictionary entry written that way. The first entry is open and the others are collapsed to their headword and first meaning; click one to open it. With three or more entries, a row of headwords at the top jumps to each.

A dictionary word page with its reading, meanings and example sentences — A word page, with the characters of the word beside it.

The kanji of the page are listed beside the words (in a tab on narrow screens), each with its meanings, readings and a link to its own page.

An open entry shows:

the headword with its reading, and your level for it
the frequency rank, and the other written forms of the word
the meanings, grouped by part of speech, with labels such as usage notes, field and dialect, and links to related words
a conjugation table for verbs and adjectives
example sentences with translations
definitions from a Japanese dictionary (国語辞典)
names written the same way

Meanings may come with example sentences and usage notes written by AI. They are marked Generated (experimental) and can contain mistakes.

Signed in, the entry header has an Add to deck button and Level & progress, which shows how the word ranks for you and why. See Levels and progress.

Conjugation tables

Verbs and adjectives have a table with plain, plain negative, polite and polite negative columns. The first three rows are shown; Show all forms adds the rest: past, て-form, ます-stem, adverbial, volitional, imperative, the ば and たら conditionals, potential, passive, causative, causative passive and たい.

Searching or clicking a conjugated form finds the dictionary form, and the popup names the forms that lead from one to the other.

English meanings and monolingual definitions

Words have English meanings and, where they exist, definitions written in Japanese. By default the English meanings come first and the Japanese definitions follow.

The study options can put the monolingual definitions first, or hide one of the two in popups or everywhere.

A hidden dictionary waits behind a Show button. The words in monolingual definitions open popups.

Character pages

A kanji page shows its JLPT level and school grade (or whether it is a jouyou or jinmeiyou kanji), the number of strokes, its radical, its rank among the 2500 kanji most used in newspapers, its meanings and its readings: kun’yomi (訓), on’yomi (音) and name readings (名).

Below that are its components, its stroke order and example words for each reading.

Components: the parts the character is built from. Click a part to open it.
Stroke order: one frame per stroke. Each frame shows the strokes so far, the later strokes greyed out, and a dot where the current stroke starts.
Example words: words that use the character, grouped by reading.

On the website the components are a tree, so the parts of a part are shown too. Some components have a short explanation instead of a page.

To find a character you cannot type, use the radical lookup described in Dictionary search.