What is Reddit's opinion of Aedict3 Japanese Dictionary?

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I read regular Japanese news sites (and we have a subscription to Asahi Shimbun); for support I use Aedict with the Aedict Reader plugin. Mark any kanji, word or phrase on a webpage, app or anywhere, and it pops up a floating bubble with the translation. Really, really useful, and it works on any text that you can mark for copying.

Aedict3 is my favorite Japanese dictionary application on Google Play. It's a paid app, but well worth the money in my opinion. It's offline, supports handwriting input, will split longer strings into their individual dictionary entries, advanced search options, a great selection of example sentences, export bookmarks to Anki, JLPT kanji quizzes, responsive, continuous developer support, optical character recognition, a variety of technical dictionaries, and more that I'm not thinking of at the moment.

I used to use JED and WWWJDIC, but Aedict3 really had everything I was looking for. I bought it immediately and I've never looked back.

Not sure I understood your usecase right, but I use Aedict to paste sentences (from chat) and have the app try and figure out the sentence structure.

I think there's a free version, too - but I am not sure.

I've been looking for this for a long time. There aren't many answers, and not one I've found that immediately seems right. So far, the best seems to be the Aedict app. On their blog, the creator says if you send him an email showing proof of purchase of Daijirin, he can enable it on Aedict for you. I emailed to confirm the offer was still valid, but have yet to do it. But it seems like that's the best you could do, besides just going to a Japanese dictionary website.

I use search by radical with aedict on my phone when playing Japanese games on my PS4. The actual dictionary app doesn't really matter so much, the important thing is searching by radical is by far the most reliable way of finding whatever random kanji you're seeing in a game.

AEdict has SKIP support.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.baka.aedict3&hl=ja

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There are others, but I can't remember offhand and at some point I deleted most of my dictionary apps. Hrm.

The only Japanese app I use (Android) is aedict. It uses the same database as Imiwa and is highly customisable and has a dark mode.

It was the first Android app I ever paid for and I use it every single day of my life. Of all the Japanese dictionary apps on Android it's not even close IMO.

Here are some screenshots that I just took:

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I use Aedict 3 as my dictionary of first recourse. When you first install it you can choose which dictionaries you want to install and included in the options is a legal dictionary. You can then limit your searches to only this dictionary when you're looking for a purely legal translation. Additionally, you can also add the example sentences dictionary to your search to try to get the word in context.

I think the app may only be for Android though, so you may be out of luck if you're iOS. Anyway, here is the play store link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.baka.aedict3&hl=en

And the official webpage link:

http://aedict.eu/index.html

I use Aedict3, a paid app, which has example sentences from Tatoeba, Ankidroid integration (to create flashcards), and some frequency information. It's good (although it's an EDICT/JMDict-based app).

Maybe Kodansha's "Handbook of Japanese Verbs" is something you'd be interested in?

Could you estimate your Japanese level? If you want a list of words (including verbs) then maybe what you want is a dictionary? With jisho.org, you can search for types of words (e.g. all verbs (including anything they have listed as a possible "suru verb"), or all 'ru' verbs or all 'u' verbs ending in ぶ or all 'u' verbs ending in ぬ etc...)

alc.co.jp and Goo 辞書 are other English⇔Japanese dictionaries that you might find useful.

Edit: if you have an android phone or tablet, I really like Aedict3 and recommend paying the couple bucks to get it. It uses the same dictionary as jisho.org as its base, and you can download dictionary files and example sentences for offline use. You can also search specifically for just verbs, just ichidan (ru) verbs, and just godan (u) verbs. If you have an iPhone or iPad, Japanese is a popular paid Japanese learning app that includes dictionaries (including the ability to search or browse all verbs, and specific types of verbs).

Aedict3 is wonderful

For reading online Japanese content, I HIGHLY recommend the 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp) plugin for Firefox or Chrome. It allows you to mouse over Japanese words to see the definition and reading. SUPER useful.

Eijiro is an extremely useful website for finding example sentences and learning the usage of any terms that you want to look up.

Aedict is a great dictionary website (there's a mobile app too).

The Google Translate app is useful for scanning kanji with your phone's camera so you can copy-paste them into a dictionary app and find their reading/meaning. There's also a nifty mode that lets you write kanji stroke-by-stroke to convert characters that can't be scanned correctly.

Also get yourself a decent Japanese dictionary on your phone. If you're on Android then it's worth paying a few bucks for aedict.

As I understand it, you're looking for either a way to look up words more quickly[1], or a faster & more accurate way to learn words and their usage[2].

[1] For reading text, looking up definitions at a tap, and creating Anki flashcards from unknown words, these tools massively speed up the process:

• For reading ebooks on Android: the super-useful ebook reader Typhon
• For reading webpages in Chrome: Yomichan for Chrome
• For reading webpages in Firefox: Rikaisama

(On Android) For looking up words and adding them to Ankidroid quickly, try Aedict3. It's a paid app but I really like the Ankidroid integration and how it can display the frequency (commonness) of words. If you don't use Anki, you can also simply use the handy and free Dokugakusha to read text, look up words, and save them.

[2] For general vocabulary acquisition, I use sentence decks in Anki:

• Nayr's Core 5000 deck: ~5,000 sentences covering the 5,000 most common words
• Core 2/6/10k deck: 2,000, 6,000, or 10,000 of the most common words, with multiple example sentences (based on a different word frequency list as Nayr's)
• There are also the V2k (2,000 most common words from visual novels and anime) and Anon Core 5000 decks (same 5,000 words as Nayr's, but different sentences) - I'm not familiar with these decks

If you take the sentence decks route, people generally advise learning only up to 5,000-6,000 words/sentences, then relying primarily on reading and listening to expose yourself to new words.

If you're open to Android apps, I recommend this one

Aedict can do this (2 is free, 3 is paid. 3 is actively updated)

Whatever workd/kanji you look up, there's a whole "examples" section with many sentences.