Yomiwa Japanese Dictionary

Yomiwa is a much more than a Japanese dictionary. It includes many features to help you read and learn Japanese.

Its dictionary is extensive, intuitive, fast and includes numerous target languages. You can input words in any language, alphabet, or even by drawing.

More than a dictionary, Yomiwa features advanced Japanese text analysis. It can break Japanese sentences into words, describe conjugate forms, display furiganas, and even provide translation to English with its new offline translation model.

Yomiwa also has a powerful, fast and offline Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ability. Yomiwa can recognize more than 4000 Japanese characters in your pictures or with your device camera. Yomiwa has been designed to help you read with ease all your favorite reading materials, such as mangas, newspapers, books or restaurant menus and signs.

Whenever you still have trouble with some Japanese, you can always ask questions or post picture to the user community on the Yomiwa wall.

EXTENSIVE DICTIONARY:
• Detailed information about words and kanjis (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: Kanjis / Hiraganas / Katakanas / Romajis.
• Bidirectional dictionary: you can search from both Japanese words or from foreign words
• Look up conjugated forms, even if they are incomplete
• Fast and accurate Handwriting Recognition
• Simple Radical search
• Numerous target languages available, such as English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, Chinese, Dutch, Slovene, Swedish and more
• Also includes an extensive Japanese-Japanese dictionary for advanced Japanese learners
• Browse the numerous kanji and word lists, order by JLPT levels, school grades and thema
• Build vocabulary lists of Japanese words, kanjis or sentences (which you can share as files or text in many ways)
• 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 (Japanese to English, requires iOS 12):
• Yomiwa can now translate whole Japanese sentences to English

TEXT ANALYZER:
• Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, into the Text Analyzer to get definitions of each word in the text
• Furiganas are displayed automatically
• Listen to the Japanese text with the "Speak" function
• Furiganas in Safari: 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