About 日本語

日本語 is a Japanese dictionary and reader. Look a word up as it is written or by what it means in English. Paste any text and it comes back with every word tappable, each word found in the dictionary however the text has it. And see the words of each level, the most common first.

How the reader finds words

Japanese is written without spaces between its words. At each place in a text, the reader takes the longest stretch that is a word in the dictionary, as it is written or once its endings are undone: 食べました is 食べる, polite, past; 見られない is 見る, passive or potential, negative. Where nothing fits, it takes the one character. This is how popup dictionaries read Japanese, and now and then it takes too much or too little: the popup shows what it took.

The readings over the words are the dictionary's, for the word it took. The Furigana button turns them off and on.

The kanji pages give each kanji's level in the JLPT as it was before 2010, when the test had four levels, 4 the easiest.

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