The Japanese dictionary for learners.

Instant search in romaji, kana, kanji, #k [kanji], or components #c [radicals].

search
Examples:

大体 だいたい N4

  1. about; almost; approximately; generally; mostly; nearly; on the whole; roughly
  2. general; rough
  3. essence; gist; main points; outline; substance
  4. first and foremost; from the start; in the first place; to begin with
menu_book

Search for a word, a kanji or a sentence above.

Keyboard shortcut: press / to search.

What you can look up

A free dictionary built on open data (JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Tatoeba). Try a word like 食べる, a kanji like 水, or find a kanji by its parts in the radical search. New to kana, kanji or JLPT? Read the glossary, or see fudami and its data sources.