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Android app for learning kanji, with stroke-order writing practice, flashcards, multiple-choice quizzes and spaced repetition, plus kanji and word search. The beginner kanji, radicals and kana are free with no ads; a one-time purchase unlocks the remaining kanji and custom study sets.
Free online Japanese-English dictionary. Search in English, kana, romaji or kanji, draw kanji by hand or by radical, and see example sentences and a JLPT tag on many words (taken from older unofficial lists, since the JLPT has not published official word lists since 2010).
Japanese-English dictionary app for Android that works fully offline, with example sentences, kanji details and the option to save words to lists.
Open-source Japanese dictionary website with word, kanji, name and sentence search, plus pitch accent information for many words.
Community-built database of example sentences with translations. Useful for seeing how a word is used in context, though sentence quality varies.
Pronunciation dictionary where native speakers record individual words. Handy for checking how a word or name is actually said.
Online Japanese Accent Dictionary (OJAD) from the University of Tokyo: shows the pitch accent of words and how it changes when verbs and adjectives conjugate.
Japanese dictionary app for iPhone and iPad with offline search, kanji details, stroke order and example sentences.
Online Japanese dictionary with word and kanji search, example sentences and custom vocabulary lists.
Large Japanese dictionary site that searches hundreds of specialist dictionaries, Japanese-Japanese dictionaries and encyclopedias at once.
Japanese-language dictionary of word origins (etymology), explaining where words and expressions come from.
Kanjipedia: a Japanese-language kanji and word dictionary from the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, covering readings, meanings and idioms.
Kanji and written-Japanese study site with free lessons, flashcards, games and a dictionary, plus a visual map of which kanji you know.
Free Japanese-language site that searches many dictionaries and encyclopedias at once, with clear sources. A monolingual dictionary for when you're ready to look words up in Japanese.
Free Japanese-English dictionary file for Yomitan, built from JMdict with cleaner layouts and extra notes. One of the most common first dictionaries to install in Yomitan.
