WWWJDIC for Android

Name: WWWJDIC for Android
Rating: 4.106383 (1493 reviews)
Author: Nikolay Elenkov

By: Nikolay Elenkov

Japanese/kanji online dictionary: handwriting recognition, OCR, stroke order

This app was removed from Google Play Store on 2025-03-09

Features & Capabilities

Japanese and kanji online dictionary

Android frontend for Jim Breen's WWWJDIC

Donate version available.

Features
* Italian dictionary support
* ICS support
* full tablet support
* Japanese pronunciation (install 'N2 TTS' from Play Store to enable)
* text to speech for kanji and dictionary entry translations (English/German/French/Spanish/Italian)
* multi-radical kanji search
* kanji of the day widget
* Japanese sentence translation
* example search with approximately 150,000 examples (Japanese/English pairs)
* example word breakdown/translation
* animated stroke order diagrams for over 6000 kanji
* history and favorites
* history and favorites backup and restore
* favorites export to CSV and Anki
* handwriting recognition (including offline via the Kanji Recognizer app)
* OCR-based handwritten kanji recognition, does not require correct stroke order
* Optical Character Recognition (OCR) -- just take a picture of any kanji you want to look up
* multiple dictionary lookup (General/Japanese Names/Computing/Life Sciences and more)
* multiple languages supported (German/French/Russian/Swedish/Hungarian/Spanish/Dutch/Slovenian/Italian)
* romaji input
* kanji compound search
* kanji lookup by reading, meaning, radical or stroke count
* radical table showing radical variations
* automatic mirror selection for best performance

About permissions:
* Camera permission is needed for OCR
* Coarse location is needed to select the closest WWWJDIC mirror
* For more details, see the FAQ:

http://code.google.com/p/wwwjdic/wiki/FAQ

Email me for bug reports and feature requests:
wwwjdic.android@gmail.com

Follow me on Twitter for latest updates: @kapitanpetko
http://twitter.com/kapitanpetko

Release announcements and detailed explanation of new features on my blog:

http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/search/label/wwwjdic

Google+ page:

https://plus.google.com/105457662805333954065/

User Growth & Download Statistics

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Version:

2.5.3 Last updated: 2023-08-22

Creation date:

2010-03-12

Email:

ww*****@gmail.com

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Website ,Privacy policy

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Google Play Store

Data ingested on:

2025-03-09

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Developed by:

Nikolay Elenkov

Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nick.wwwjdic

Email:

ww*****@gmail.com

Website:

https://github.com/nelenkov/wwwjdic

User Reviews

Pros

Helpful for learning Japanese vocabulary and kanji.
Long-time user base shows reliability and usefulness.
A lot of informal Japanese vocabulary included.
Recognizes kanji well with the kanji widget.
Good for accessing a wide range of Japanese dictionary entries.

Cons

Kanji recognition feature often malfunctioning or incompatible with new devices.
User interface is not user-friendly and could be improved.
Issues with the kanji widget not refreshing properly.
Lags and bugs present in newer Android versions.
Lack of features like a reorder option for favorites and a clear button in the search field.