Online Japanese Dictionaries [Archive]

kuroneko

08-07-2004, 12:43 AM

anyone have any reccomendations of online japanese dictionaries to use? the ones i've seen are sort of complicated.

i don't have japanese writing capabilites.. so search engines that accept romaji would be appreciated.

thank u much guys

Senshi

08-07-2004, 02:50 AM

This is one I use alot: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

Its awesome... has a search engine in romanji like you were looking for (click on "search for words in dictionary")... kinda hard to navigate in is the only prob...

Madoka

08-07-2004, 07:11 AM

I always use Jeffrey's Online Dictionary:

http://dict.regex.info/cgi-bin/j-e/dict

You can search in English or romaji, and then reload the page with the results in kanji. It's the best dictionary I've found online.

icelava

08-07-2004, 11:13 AM

Originally posted by Madoka
http://dict.regex.info/cgi-bin/j-e/dictye gods, the colours..... my eyes! my eyes!

Madoka

08-07-2004, 12:06 PM

Originally posted by icelava
ye gods, the colours..... my eyes! my eyes!

I didn't say it was the prettiest dictionary I've found online. :p

Onetea

08-08-2004, 02:08 PM

Try these 3. You make the most out of them when you them all at the same time.

1. http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi-inon

2. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?9T

3. http://www.trussel.com/f_nih.htm

And also Babelfish
http://www.world.altavista.com

hekikuu

08-10-2004, 05:24 PM

I'm glad for this thread. I used to use JEDI,
http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi

But it suddenly disappeared just this week. Now I have other, recommended resources!

Air-B

08-24-2004, 12:11 PM

Originally posted by hekikuu
I'm glad for this thread. I used to use JEDI,
http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/jedi

But it suddenly disappeared just this week. Now I have other, recommended resources!
That's the dictionary that I primarily use... and since the romanized terms I'm looking up are as vague as they come, it's good to see that even if I'm are slightly off in my assertion, the dictionary will still pick up on it.

kuroneko

08-24-2004, 01:16 PM

is it possible to get this topic stickied? thanx ya guys.

nice it's back up cool.

Soul Tester

08-31-2004, 09:42 PM

I've been looking for a dictionary that doesn't give me Kanji characters, but ABC alphabets instead, ex: when I type "dog," it should give me "inu". Do you know any like that ?

TheGunslinger

09-01-2004, 04:43 AM

Try the 'About.com' japanese section..

Yumi_Readman

11-24-2004, 01:52 PM

1.http://www.freedict.com/onldict/jap.html
2.http://dict.pspinc.com/
3.http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/jpndict.htm
4.http://www.online-dictionary.biz/english/japanese/
5.http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1B

If you need any more just pm me.

ayaka

12-08-2004, 08:41 PM

i dont think we need japdictionaries,,,, theres already walking dictionaries out there

icelava

12-08-2004, 08:55 PM

theres already walking dictionaries out thereYes, neither do we need online dating services; you already get such a huge variety of choices the moment you walk out of the door ;)

Natasmai

02-15-2005, 02:12 PM

The one that I go to a lot is http://www.animelab.com/anime.manga/dictionary/. I find that it's pretty good, even though it doesn't have ALL of the japanese words.

Traeonna

02-25-2005, 01:32 PM

I typically use Kanjidict 1.6.3.3 for most things.

http://kanjidict.stc.cx/dict

Also, as someone probably already posted, I use Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary Server too. Mainly Kanji Lookup and Multi-Radical Kanji tools.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

Rurouni-Kenshin

05-04-2005, 01:38 PM

go to the yoshida institute home page

Tenken's Smile

08-21-2005, 06:38 PM

http://kanjidict.stc.cx/dict
This one is great!!!

Sakito

10-17-2005, 07:39 AM

Nice its about time i get a good site on japanese

kLaUS

10-09-2006, 02:58 PM

Use Wakan !!! wakan.manga.cz/ (http://wakan.manga.cz/),, i have said this before,, its free, good and useful, some nasty bugs, but try it yourself. If i know some kanji and have some questionable knowledge of japanese is because of this dictionary.

chibigaltaylor

02-02-2007, 11:47 AM

Heero-sama

05-30-2007, 04:54 PM

I'm a big fan of jisho.org It's been a while since I've used it, but if I recall you don't have to be able to type in Japanese. Also, if you use Firefox, there's an add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2471) that will translate any kanji merely by scrolling over it. It's very helpful and would strongly recommend it if you're going to be reading a lot of Japanese text online.