Japanese Dictionary

[rjboox]

I’m been trying to get a japanese - english dictionary to work. But none of the stardict dictionaries I tried works.

Is there any description/way that I can get a japanese dictionary or build one myself?

[Anastasia]

Hi, I have had the same problem.

Download and install new dictionary

Hi Rambles and Afra, I have got it. It was the same as I done before and as you said. But it worked just after I went in dictionary modus in Settings/Preferred Dyctionary Setting and selected there my folder “russian-german”. Now it works!

you can find the multiple dictionaries here
A dictionary is represented as 3 files with different extentions.
You create a folder “japanese” in internal storage/dics. You copy there these 3 files.
Then you start your dictionary and click to Setting symbol. Then you click to “preffered dictionary Settings” and select there your folder “japanese”. After that it must work.

[rjboox]

Thanks I’ve tried this before. I just noticed that all the words is always empty but searching for words works

[albertp007]

I never managed to get it to work. I downloaded jmdict ja-en. It’s just forever searching for me, both when I highlight something and click dictionary or when I go through the built-in Dict app to search for words directly.

So what I ended up doing was to install “Popup Japanese Dictionary” from the Play Store. After it’s installed, run it and turned Dictionary Service on. Now when I highlight something and hit “Copy”, this will pop up a window with the definition in it. In short, whenever something is copied to the clipboard, the lookup is triggered.

Works quite well for me. Hope it helps.

Cheers,
Albert

[QuestionMark]

Another way to do it is to install the ColorDict app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.socialnmobile.colordict

Then open the app and install the Japanese-English dictionary that’s available.

When reading in Japanese, I usually use Moon+ Reader as it handles Japanese the best. It also works well with ColorDict. I can just highlight a word and and it will search the dictionary.

If the word/term isn’t in the ColorDict dictionary, I then copy it and paste it into the search bar of the Japanese dictionary app by Renzo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.renzo.japanese&hl=en_US

Using the multitask icon in the top menu bar makes it very easy to jump back and forth between Moon+ Reader and Renzo’s Japanese app. I have found most words I’ve looked for using this method.