Hey /r/Japanese,
I’m happy to be able to announce the first stable version of [Jotoba](https://jotoba.de/), a free, multi language online Japanese dictionary I’ve been working on together with a friend since April this year. After months of active development, tests and improvements all over the place, we want to share it with people who can benefit from it the most. It is designed for learners as well as for people having knowledge in the Japanese language. It contains a lot of features which we couldn’t find in other online dictionaries, which are pretty handy and speed up the lookup process by an extend. The data comes from lots and lots of different free resources as well as self made data to complement on top of that. We’re open for suggestions and feedback and contributions in case you want to help this grow even more.
Supported languages:
English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, Slovenian
For developers:
Its entirely open source and documented. It contains an API that allows to address almost all data shown on the site. Feel free to selfhost it as well as to contribute.
Your Jotoba team
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Nice
Oh this is a really nice layout, it’s really well done.
Tried it a bit, this is impressive work. The radical search by pronunciation / kanji is a game changer. The website, search seems very responsive and fast, congrats on this also.
The only thing I am missing from Jisho is the advanced search, e.g. I want to search words beginning with 精 with the search 精*, the words with two characters beginning with 精 as 精?, etc.
Again, congrats it is impressive!
Thanks! It’s amazing ☺️
Wow this is awesome. I love that it shows Kanji on the side and clarifies pronunciation on certain particles and ending hiragana. Great work, will definitely keep trying this out over the next few weeks.
This looks fantastic.
If i could make just the one tiny suggestion; have a ‘speaker’ icon near the “Play Audio” button.
There is still one thing that WWWJDIC does that nothing else I know of can do — text glossing. If you could produce a cleaner interlinearized output than they do it would be worth doing.
I’d love to try your API (using Jishos API right now and they keep promising updates for many years …), but I can’t find any documentation on the web page …
Needs work. I tried “eat” and got a list of unrelated words.
The design is so beautiful! And I love tanuki!
u/kochida – One of the best features of Jisho is the * and ? feature. Jotoba doesn’t seem to have this?
Just found this after a few days of messing around with Jisho and JapanesePod101 for my automatic card generation addon for Anki. I’m so happy you have such a good API!