Midori (Japanese Dictionary)

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Work of art Work of art

This app is one of the most impressive pieces of software I've ever encountered. It does everything you could possibly want in a Japanese dictionary, and it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use. I use it all the time but I still occasionally happen on a delightful feature I hadn't noticed before. For example, I just discovered that tapping the kanji stroke order brings up an actual animation of writing the character -- and you can even fast forward and rewind it! Since the static stroke order chart already provides the needed information, this kind of additional polish just feels above and beyond. It's lovely to see such care put into an app. Highly recommended.

This app is one of the most impressive pieces of software I've ever encountered. It does everything you could possibly want in a Japanese dictionary, and it is beautifully designed and extremely intuitive to use. I use it all the time but I still occasionally happen on a delightful feature I hadn't noticed before. For example, I just discovered that tapping the kanji stroke order brings up an actual animation of writing the character -- and you can even fast forward and rewind it! Since the static stroke order chart already provides the needed information, this kind of additional polish just feels above and beyond. It's lovely to see such care put into an app. Highly recommended.

Grape Nut over 8 years ago
Perfect Perfect

Worth every penny! User-friendly interface and extensive content, functions, etc. A suitable substitute for a traditional electronic dictionary.

Worth every penny! User-friendly interface and extensive content, functions, etc. A suitable substitute for a traditional electronic dictionary.

Deerclouds over 8 years ago
My go-to Japanese dictionary app My go-to Japanese dictionary app

I've had both imiwa and Japanese but midori is pretty much the only app I use on a daily basis. Layout is nice and clean and it's easy to use (and imo looks better overall than the other two). Would be nice to see it on other platforms such as Mac. A minor issue I have with it is that the speed of the speech function is quite fast and cannot be controlled even when I try to change it in the speech accessibility settings. Another thing I'd love to see would be an addition of a radicals list similar to what Japanese by Renzo has. For now I guess I'll have to manually make my own but I think it will be a useful tool to others as well.

I've had both imiwa and Japanese but midori is pretty much the only app I use on a daily basis. Layout is nice and clean and it's easy to use (and imo looks better overall than the other two). Would be nice to see it on other platforms such as Mac. A minor issue I have with it is that the speed of the speech function is quite fast and cannot be controlled even when I try to change it in the speech accessibility settings. Another thing I'd love to see would be an addition of a radicals list similar to what Japanese by Renzo has. For now I guess I'll have to manually make my own but I think it will be a useful tool to others as well.

chiaradr almost 9 years ago
Love It!! Love It!!

I can't believe all these wonderful updates! They just keep making this great app even better!!

I can't believe all these wonderful updates! They just keep making this great app even better!!

93notes almost 9 years ago
A part of my life A part of my life

I feel like life would be strange if I did not have Midori in it. Together with Jisho.org it makes up pretty much 100% of my Japanese reference tools. The more you put in the more you get out. If you are just starting to learn Japanese, I really recommend dishing out the cash for it. My favorite features: --Handwriting recognition: if you're reading or you see a kanji you don't know while walking around in Japan, simply open up Midori and draw it in. Then bookmark it for later. --Bookmarks: Midori has a really nice bookmark capabilities, allowing you to create folders and subfolders. It greatly helped me during my intermediate Japanese lessons in college. I created a folder for each lesson and two subfolders inside of that; one for kanji and one for vocabulary. That's great in and of itself, but it's even better knowing that you can make... --Flashcards: perhaps a little underspoken is Midori's flashcard capabilities. You can make a set of flashcards at any time out of any of your bookmark sets. You can customize it by showing back or front first, hiding readings... It's great for anyone who's going to be tested. --Lists: Midori's got a bunch of handy built in lists, especially for beginners. You can learn hiragana and katana right from within Midori via flashcards, and I'm currently using it to study JLPT N2 kanji. The parts of speech lists is great to browse, too. --Notes: You can make notes on anything you look up to remind you of where you found it or why you wanted to remember it. Also for if Midori's definition happens to be a little off, or you want to add another contextual meaning etc. Things that need work: Midori's built-in translator isn't going to translate sentences for you. It mostly plucks the kanji out of the sentence and gives you their readings and meanings. Not so helpful when you don't know the grammar for the sentence. Hopefully they'll implement one that busts Google Translate in the chops. On the plus side, you can copy an entire newspaper article and get a kanji list generated for you that you can make flashcards out of. No kanji stroke practice: This is a little unfair to pin on Midori, as there are very few apps on the market that do this, but I would very much love to see a function that allows you to study kanji by drawing them to see if they're right, trace them to memorize them, that sort of thing. Midori's already got the handwriting recognition, would need only to incorporate a system that uses it for review and study instead of only searching.

I feel like life would be strange if I did not have Midori in it. Together with Jisho.org it makes up pretty much 100% of my Japanese reference tools. The more you put in the more you get out. If you are just starting to learn Japanese, I really recommend dishing out the cash for it. My favorite features: --Handwriting recognition: if you're reading or you see a kanji you don't know while walking around in Japan, simply open up Midori and draw it in. Then bookmark it for later. --Bookmarks: Midori has a really nice bookmark capabilities, allowing you to create folders and subfolders. It greatly helped me during my intermediate Japanese lessons in college. I created a folder for each lesson and two subfolders inside of that; one for kanji and one for vocabulary. That's great in and of itself, but it's even better knowing that you can make... --Flashcards: perhaps a little underspoken is Midori's flashcard capabilities. You can make a set of flashcards at any time out of any of your bookmark sets. You can customize it by showing back or front first, hiding readings... It's great for anyone who's going to be tested. --Lists: Midori's got a bunch of handy built in lists, especially for beginners. You can learn hiragana and katana right from within Midori via flashcards, and I'm currently using it to study JLPT N2 kanji. The parts of speech lists is great to browse, too. --Notes: You can make notes on anything you look up to remind you of where you found it or why you wanted to remember it. Also for if Midori's definition happens to be a little off, or you want to add another contextual meaning etc. Things that need work: Midori's built-in translator isn't going to translate sentences for you. It mostly plucks the kanji out of the sentence and gives you their readings and meanings. Not so helpful when you don't know the grammar for the sentence. Hopefully they'll implement one that busts Google Translate in the chops. On the plus side, you can copy an entire newspaper article and get a kanji list generated for you that you can make flashcards out of. No kanji stroke practice: This is a little unfair to pin on Midori, as there are very few apps on the market that do this, but I would very much love to see a function that allows you to study kanji by drawing them to see if they're right, trace them to memorize them, that sort of thing. Midori's already got the handwriting recognition, would need only to incorporate a system that uses it for review and study instead of only searching.

Treskatae almost 9 years ago

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Description

Midori is a Japanese-English, English-Japanese dictionary app. It's the most powerful dictionary and a perfect tool for those who are studying Japanese, with 890,000 entries, 150,000 example sentences, and many features that will make your Japanese learning experience much easier.

DICTIONARY ENTRIES

• More than 170,000 word entries. Each entry shows a reading, a meaning, and a kanji breakdown.

• Example sentences with furigana (small hiragana above kanji).

• Words in example sentences are linked to the definitions.

• More than 12,000 kanji. Each kanji shows a reading, a meaning, and example compounds.

• Over 6,000 kanji with stroke order diagrams and stroke order...

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