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Yomiwa - Japanese Dictionary
Master Kanji and vocabulary with the most powerful offline recognizer. From reading manga to passing the JLPT, unlock the Japanese language with instant camera translations and smart flashcards.
Master Japanese with the Ultimate All-In-One Toolkit
Whether you are reading manga, studying for the JLPT, or navigating the streets of Tokyo, Yomiwa combines powerful AI recognition with an expert-grade dictionary to accelerate your fluency.
Instant Camera & OCR Translation
Point your camera at any book, menu, or manga. Our powerful offline engine recognizes over 4,000 characters and handles vertical text with ease.
Deep-Dive Professional Dictionary
Go beyond surface-level meanings with 200k+ entries, pitch accents, stroke orders, and example sentences designed for serious learners.
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Screenshots
Handwriting recognition feature in Yomiwa Japanese Dictionary app for searching kanji characters
Yomiwa app translating Japanese text from a camera view into multiple languages
Yomiwa app interface showing OCR translation of vertical Japanese text from a photograph.
Detailed kanji information screen in Yomiwa showing stroke order and JLPT level
Yomiwa app interface showing Japanese text analysis with automatic furigana and a word definition popup in multiple languages
Yomiwa app interface showing a Japanese word flashcard with kanji and hiragana
Yomiwa app interface showing a Japanese to English sentence translation with furigana
Yomiwa app interface showing a list of Japanese vocabulary words extracted from news articles with definitions and source links.
A smartphone displaying the Yomiwa app Safari extension which adds furigana to Japanese text on a news website.
Smartphone screen showing the Yomiwa Wall where users share pictures and ask for Japanese translation help
Description
Yomiwa is a dictionary, translator and optical recognizer designed to help you read, write and learn Japanese.
Yomiwa's powerful offline Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine can recognize more than 4000 Japanese characters in your pictures or with your device camera. Yomiwa will help you read newspapers, books, menus, signs or your favorite mangas.
Yomiwa's dictionary is extensive, intuitive, fast, and delivers Japanese word details into more than 20 target languages. You can input words in any language, alphabet, or even by drawing.
Yomiwa helps you improve your Japanese with flashcards. Flashcards are a powerful and enjoyable way to learn new words. You can use flashcards to learn new words from the built-in lists or from your history. Then, based on your learning statistics, you will be shown everyday a deck of flashcards tailored for you.
Yomiwa features advanced Japanese text analysis. Paste or write some Japanese and the text analyser will break sentences into words, describe conjugate forms and display furiganas.
Unique social feature: whenever you have trouble with some Japanese, you can always ask a question or post a picture on the Yomiwa wall. Yomiwa's users, from beginner to advanced level, will come to help you.
EXTENSIVE DICTIONARY:
• Detailed information about words (~ 200K entries) and kanji (on-yomi, kun-yomi, meaning, stroke order, compounds etc.)
• Huge database of example sentences (> 250K) built from numerous sources
• Search definitions in any kind of alphabet: kanji / hiragana / katakana / romaji
• Bidirectional dictionary: you can search from both Japanese words or from foreign words
• Look up conjugated forms, even if they are incomplete
• Pitch accents for more than 60k words
• Handwriting Recognition
• Intuitive Radical search
• More than 20 target languages available, such as English, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, Chinese, Dutch, Slovene, Swedish etc.
• For advanced learners and natives: an extensive Japanese-Japanese dictionary
• Build vocabulary lists of Japanese words, kanjis or sentences (which you can share as files or text in many ways)
• Browse the numerous pre-built kanji and word lists, order by JLPT levels, school grades and topics
• Listen to the Japanese pronunciation of words and example sentences through the "Speak" function
OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR):
• A powerful OCR engine which lets you recognize instantly Japanese characters in your pictures or from your camera
• Yomiwa can recognize more that 4000 Japanese characters
• Works for both horizontal and vertical Japanese text
OFFLINE TRANSLATOR:
• Translate whole Japanese sentences to English
STUDY WITH FLASHCARDS:
• You can learn words in a fun way with flashcards. Pick up any deck from the pre-built lists or from your own lists and history, then start learning them with flashcards
• Everyday, a new deck is built based on your learning statistics in order to optimise your memorising power
TEXT READER:
• Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, into the Text Analyzer
• Furiganas are displayed automatically
• Tap any word to see its definition in a pop-up
OPEN SAFARI WEB PAGES:
• In Safari, tap the export button to open the web page in Yomiwa. All Japanese words will be added furiganas and you will be able to tap on each of them to have a popup definition
FURIGANAS SAFARI EXTENSION:
• Whenever you are browsing on a web page with some Japanese text, tap the "share" button at the bottom and select "Yomiwa Add Furiganas" to display all furiganas
AUTOMATIC WORD LISTS FROM THE NEWS:
• Keywords appearing in the daily news are displayed in the app everyday. You can open the source news article and add Furiganas in order to read it with ease
YOMIWA WALL:
• Get help from the user community by asking questions and sharing pictures on the Yomiwa Wall
We are very responsive to your feed-back and suggestions: feedback.ios@yomiwa.net
This page is not an official page of the app or its developer, but an independent editorial publication created for informational and commentary purposes. Unless expressly stated otherwise, neither the app nor its developer is affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, authorized by, or otherwise officially connected with MWM, Apple, Google Play, the app publisher, or the app's developer, and nothing on this page implies that the app was developed using MWM's services. Any trademarks, logos, screenshots, and other content remain the property of their respective owners.