Japanese → English dictionary

Look up a word by its writing, its reading, its romaji — or by its meaning.

灌木, かんぼく and kanboku lead to the same entry, and so does “shrub”.

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Paste a sentence, see it broken down

A whole sentence, split into words exactly like the app does: furigana above the kanji, the dictionary form of conjugated verbs, and the meaning of every word.

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What the site doesn’t do

Nothing is machine-translated on the fly: the meanings are JMdict’s, written by people. A word the dictionary doesn’t know is shown as unknown — never guessed.

The same thing, offline, with your camera

The Jiyomi app reads a page of a book or a manga, splits its sentences into words and shows this very entry under your finger, offline.

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