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Online Dictionaries

• EDICT (Jim Breen's Japanese-English Dictionary)
  • Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server -Word Lookup
    Search EDICT and various other dictionaries. Fast and clutter-free output.
  • Japanese-English Dictionary Interface (JEDI) (Greg Peterson)
    Fast, clutter-free output.
  • JapaNod.com's Dictionary (Richard Moore)
  • Jeffrey's Japanese <=> English Dictionary (Jeffrey Friedl)
    (If your computer doesn't use S-JIS, then back up the the main page.)
    • http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict
    • http://www.solon.org/cgi-bin/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict
    • http://rut.org/cgi-bin/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict
    • http://dict.regex.info/cgi-bin/j-e/tty/nocolor/sjis/dict
  • www.NihongoResources.com's "clutter-free" version
    Also allows searching only within word types and substring searches.
  • www.online-dictionary.biz/japanese/english/
    www.online-dictionary.biz/english/japanese/
  • www.j-prep.net/reference/ - Free section of a commercial website.
  • www.Mahou.org/Dict
    Does Romaji, too, though not always accurately, so be careful.
  • www.freedict.com
    Apparently uses a 2001 version of EDICT
  • Kanjidict 1.7.1 (Joel Yliluoma)
    It's a JE dictionary -- not (just?) a kanji dictionary. Uses EDICT (1994-2001) old data?
• www.KanjiNetworks.com (Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto)
  It contains etymologies for the 1,945 joyo characters. Can be searched or browsed.
• Sanseido's EXCEED Dictionary
  • Goo's Search Engine & Dictionary
    Enter a word once, then you can either search for it in a dictionary (EiWa, WaEi or Kokugo) or on the Web.
  • InfoSeek's EXCEED Interface
• Sanseido's Daily Concise Dictionary, Etc.
  • www.sanseido.net
  • BigLobe's Interface
  • dic.yahoo.co.jp/bin/dsearch
• Shogakukan's Dictionaries
  • dic.yahoo.co.jp
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  • dic.livedoor.com (Japan Knowledge)
    Same search for for E=>J and J=>E.

• Kenkyusha's Dictionary
  • dion.excite.co.jp
  • www.excite.co.jp
    Requires an extra wait and another click. (The search only gives a list of words, so you need to click again.)
• Nova's Dictionary
  Must enter something into the EMAIL address space. A fake email address is OK.
• Babylon's English-Japanese
• www.pi-ppa.com's J-E [E-J]
  Cell-phone output. Romaji input or hiragana input.
• These are primarily English-Japanese Dictionaries
  • Eigotown's English-Japanese
  • http://www.alc.co.jp/

• trans.glova.jp
• Romanized Japanese-English Dictionary (Geo Hara)
  All contents are in images, so you can't use "find" on a page to jump to words.

Japanese-Japanese

• gogen-allguide.com
  Read about the backgrounds of words and where they came from (in Japanese).

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