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Jisho

Japanese-English Dictionary

Version 1.3.4 by Chris Grieser


Usage

Search for a word in English or in Japanese (Romaji, Kana, Kanji) via the ji or じ keywords.

Searching words with ji

Searching words with alternate character

  • ↩ Copy the Japanese translation.
  • ⌘↩ Open the word at jisho.org (or an alternative dictionary site).
  • ⌥↩ Copy the URL to the entry at the selected dictionary site.
  • ⇧↩ Play the Japanese audio pronunciation, with configurable speech rate.
  • ⌃↩ Open the first “Read more” link of the entry in the browser.
  • fn↩ Append entry to a .csv file. Useful to import words into other tools, such as Anki.

Configure the Hotkey for faster triggering.

Display a kana cheatsheet via the hiragana or katakana keywords.

Hiragana keyword

Hiragana image

Look for Japanese grammar guides with the jg keyword.

Checking grammar