Online Dictionaries

Downloads

Kanji Gold
Kanji Gold contains the first levels of the kanji kentei, and all kanji are grouped by the levels of this test. You can thus start learning the first 80 kanji of level 10 as a total beginner and then work your way up all the way to level pre-1. Kanji Gold contains 3841 kanji. For every kanji, the onyomi, kunyomi en meanings are available, plus up to 20 compounds. The program retains which kanji you know better than others, which results in the worse-retained kanji reappearing in questioning more than the ones you have a good retention of. (S. Van Bockstal)
Wakan
Wakan is a free program that serves as a nifty tool for students of Japanese and Chinese. The most interesting feature in wakan is that you can add extra dictionaries to their dictionary function (which are available on the wakan site itself). That way, you can for example add specific sets like Buddhist terms and Japanese geographic locations on top of the standard edict. Wakan makes for a handy offline dictionary (both for English > Japanese as Japanese > English). It also contains a Japanese text processor. (S. Van Bockstal)

Mojikyo
This is a collection of fonts and programs for your computer (Windows) of about 80.000 characters. It includes a “character map” where you can search for characters by their radicals and copy-paste them into a text processor. A good example of these fonts is a hentaigana font (and an excel macro to type rapidly in Japanese). Mojikyo also offers the characters found on oracle bones and the writing of the Xixia for example. (G. Van Steenberge)