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Japanese dictionary on Windows Pc

Developed By: Kevin.Nguyen

License: Free

Rating: 4,3/5 - 97 votes

Last Updated: December 24, 2023

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version 1.3.7.180811
Size 234.9 MB
Release Date December 21, 23
Category Education Apps

App Permissions:
Allows applications to open network sockets. [see more (7)]

What's New:
- Removed some Ads- Android supported 8.1 [see more]

Description from Developer:
JDict is a Japanese-English offline dictionary featuring over 160000 entries, over 10000 kanji and almost 60000 example sentences.
It is largely inspired by well-known "Imi_wa... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download Japanese dictionary and install on Windows PC. Japanese dictionary is free Education app, developed by Kevin.Nguyen. Latest version of Japanese dictionary is 1.3.7.180811, was released on 2023-12-21 (updated on 2023-12-24). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 10,000. Overall rating of Japanese dictionary is 4,3. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 97 users, 66 users had rated it 5*, 6 users had rated it 1*.

How to install Japanese dictionary on Windows?

Instruction on how to install Japanese dictionary on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Japanese dictionary on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Step By Step Guide To Install Japanese dictionary using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "Japanese dictionary" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install Japanese dictionary on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Japanese dictionary" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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JDict is a Japanese-English offline dictionary featuring over 160000 entries, over 10000 kanji and almost 60000 example sentences.
It is largely inspired by well-known "Imi_wa?" dictionary for I_O_S platform both functionally and visually.

Current features:
- works offline
- shows kana/romaji as you type
- supports wildcards in vocabulary
- recent words, examples and kanji
- romaji mode in search
- kanji search is divided by ON/KUN readings, Nanori and meaning results
- very fast example search
- extract words from sentences feature
- kanji stroke order animations
- furigana is matched everywhere with my own algorithm (still can have some bugs though)
- in component view, you can see all kanji with given component ordered by JLPT level and word commonness
- in kanji view, you can see all compounds with given kanji ordered like above
- search kanji by components (design inspired by "Japanese" dictionary)
- browse kanji by JLPT and School Grades
- notes
- lists (works like favorites but with folders/sub-folders)
- vocabulary search recognizes some basic grammar when typing
- in word detail view examples are categorized by word meaning if such a connection exists

As you can see features are mostly basic for now.
The database file is quite big (~230MB). The reason for that is that it contains a lot of example sentences data and needs a lot of indexes to run smooth.

My plans:

- make the application more user-friendly (list search)
- learn vocabulary feature (using lists)
- exporting lists to Anki
- external links in vocabulary
- kanji handwriting recognition
- Shiratori game
- improve extract words algorithm (I have some ideas using the statistical approach to make it run faster)

Acknowledgments:

- Electronic Dictionaries Research Groups
- KanjiVG
- Tatoeba
- KanjiCafe
- Tanos (JLPT)

This is a version that contains ads - you may in-app purchase to remove the ads.
- Removed some Ads
- Android supported 8.1
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.