Midori (Japanese Dictionary)
By Sukolsak Sakshuwong
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Description
** Now with support for 3D Touch on the new iPhone and iOS 9 multitasking! **
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 animations.
• Over 720,000 Japanese proper names, place names, surnames, given names, company names and product names.
SEARCH & TRANSLATE
• Search by kana, romaji, or combination of both, such as あき, aki, or aき
• Search by handwriting using real Japanese handwriting recognition
• Search by kanji radicals, e.g. 禾 + 火 → 秋
• Search suggestion when the input is in a conjugated form, e.g. 走った → 走る
• Search with wildcard characters, e.g. 日*人 returns all words that start with 日 and end with 人
• Partial results when the full word is not found, e.g. searching for 青い本 returns the results for 青い and 本
• Fast incremental search gives you the result instantly as you type
LISTS & BOOKMARKS
• List of kanji as taught in Japanese schools from grade 1 to 6
• List of kanji by frequency as appeared in Japanese newspapers
• List of kanji and words by Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) levels
• Lists of hiragana and katakana, each with stroke diagram and animation
• Bookmarks with folders support. You can export, import, or share bookmarks with your friends.
OTHER FEATURES
• Flashcards for bookmarked words and kanji with spaced repetition system
• Audio pronunciations (from speech synthesis)
• Create a vocabulary list with definitions from Japanese text in one tap
• Scratch Paper for practicing writing kanji on iPad
• No internet connection required
• Universal app. Buy it once, run on all your iOS devices, whether it's iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Please visit our website at www.midoriapp.com to learn more about the app. If you have any questions, please let us know via email at support@midoriapp.com. Thank you!
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NOTES
We value our customers' satisfaction and don't want you to make a wrong purchase. Please read the following notes before buying the app.
• The handwriting recognition requires correct stroke order, though it allows a few incorrect strokes for some kanji.
• The app shows pronunciations in hiragana, not romaji. Do not buy this app if you can't read hiragana.
What's New in Version 1.8.5
- 3D Touch for iPhone 6s
Press lightly on a word to peek at its meaning. Press a little deeper to pop into it.
- iOS 9 Multitasking
Now you can use Midori with another app side by side on iPad Air 2 or iPad mini 4.
- Updated database
- San Francisco font on iOS 9
- Bug fixes and performance improvement
Customer Reviews
最高だ！ // Meanwhile, please change “Share” to let us bundle / send more than 1 file of saved favorites
OK, first off, Newbies? —Look no further. Seriously the one and absolute reigning champ: Buy this App!!
Now then, where was I? Oh, yeah: Currently, (at least on my iPhone 5 with iOS 9.2, for ea. saved “file” (eg., “fave nouns” “expressions”, I must email files separately. This takes some time, and after 4 years, I have lots of files! And what is advantage of the “Midori” format for “sharing” these files? I can’t see what that’s for. So for anyway new — look no further — that’s just a given, Midori’s the BEST. But even that gets better (and they *do* keep improving!) So Midori-chan, ちょっとお願いがあるよ: Please change “Share” to let us bundle / send more than 1 file — or “all files”, since via email, it’s not that hard, anyway.
Kinda wish we could have an improved SRS / “Quiz” feature — one with more readable (LARGE) text, and options to turn *on* and *off” furigana while quizzing. If you make it *really* good, we’d stay with you — no need for Anki, or what have you! And also, again re.“sharing”, besides “plain text”, wish there could be other options besides “CSV / TSV”, too.
But hey! Totally small potatoes, folks, compared to all we get with MIdori.
So, to review: New kids on block: Buy it / Buy it / Buy it! 緑さま、you always keep making things better and better. 私の望みも聞いて下さい ;-)
Excellent dictionary and flash card feature
The interface is great and makes the dictionary very easy to use. The handwritten kanji recognition works well. You can bookmark definitions/kanji and add your own notes. And bookmarked entries can be grouped into folders and sub folders which is great when using the flash card feature. The flash card feature is basic but works very well and has some configuration options for studying. Occasionally I still use the free "imiwa?" application to look up words. I've run into a few entries in midori that are inaccurate or incomplete but that's rare so it's good to have imiwa as a backup. The one feature that imiwa has that is superior is the translation tool. I don't want to explain the details but it's much better than midori. Otherwise, midori is the better application and well worth the cost.
Absolutely terrific!
This is hands down the best Japanese dictionary app out of all the ones I checked out for iOS. It does everything I would want out of an electronic dictionary. Look up words in English or Japanese by entering characters, or selecting radicals, or drawing the kanji. It automatically saves everything you look up to the history so you can refer to it later. You can also bookmark useful entries and organize them into folders. Each entry is very detailed: gives the definition, shows stroke order, gives example sentences, shows the relevant kanji's meaning, and let's you add notes. All words are cross-linked so you can easily jump to another entry. What a wonderful job this developer has done! Worth every penny!
- $9.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated: Oct 02, 2015
- Version: 1.8.5
- Size: 88.2 MB
- Languages: English, Japanese
- Seller: Sukolsak Sakshuwong
- © 2015 Sukolsak Sakshuwong
Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.3 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.