Akebi Japanese Dictionary is a books & reference app developed by Craxic.
How many times has Akebi Japanese Dictionary been downloaded?
Akebi Japanese Dictionary has been downloaded 270 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 1.8 thousand times.
What is the rating of Akebi Japanese Dictionary?
Akebi Japanese Dictionary is rated 4.69 out of 5 stars, based on 2.8 thousand ratings.
Is Akebi Japanese Dictionary free?
Akebi Japanese Dictionary is free to download. The APK download size is 31.29 MB. The latest version available is 3.0.20. The last update was on January 12, 2024.
What are the requirements for Akebi Japanese Dictionary?
Akebi Japanese Dictionary requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play October 2012.
Description
With stroke-order independent handwriting recognition, 320k+ example sentences, 200k+ words and 6k+ Kanji database!
Akebi allows you to use character masks to filter out thousands of words from a large Japanese Dictionary. It allows you to specify what radicals appear in each character of the word, and set particular characters. Using this, you can find extremely specific words without a lot of Japanese knowledge. Akebi is designed to allow fast searching, and as such, the word can be specified by last letter, first letter or any letter in between.
NOTE ABOUT THE INTERNET PERMISSION: I hope this doesn't scare you off downloading Akebi: It is fully available offline, but the dictionary needs to be downloaded first. If you choose to allow it, Akebi will also send a small bit of analytical data back to me so I can find out which features are most used (It absolutely will not send anything if you disable it.).
Some of the features include:
- Word lists These allow you to add any word you're searching for to a list with just one press. The next time this word fits a mask you're searching for, it appears in red at the top of all possible words, to make it easy to find in case you forget. It's also good for words that the dictionary doesn't have, like names specific to what you're doing. You can even test yourself on these words too using a flashcard test! If you want, you can export them to a text file for use elsewhere as well.
- Radical search Specify which characters of the word contain what radicals. Words that don't fit this will be filtered out.
- Inbuilt Japanese Keyboard You don't even need to swap keyboards to use Akebi. You just jump in and start typing. But, if you prefer, you can turn this feature off if it causes issues with your keyboard, or if you just want to use your normal keyboard! You can even pick Akebi's keyboard/handwriting recognition as your input method!
- Kanji descriptions Find out how common a character is, what grade level it is, what it means, how to read it, its Unicode number, how many strokes are in it, its reference numbers (Heisig, Nelson...), a stroke order diagram for it, a decomposition of it, all the words that contain it...
- English to Japanese searching Search with English as well!
- Handwriting recognition Akebi has custom built handwriting recognition - and stroke order doesn't matter! Find that complex kanji quickly thanks to the "Tomoe" handwriting database!
- Example sentences Akebi has 320,000+ example sentences: search for any word and find out how to use it in a sentence! Tap the sentence for further information: including each word in the sentence's definition and reading.
- Kanji test Test yourself on any kanji you want! Create sets and test yourself!
- Deconjugation Search for 言って and you'll get results for 言う. Works for other forms too, such as ます, ない, た, られる/Potential form.
- Animated stroke order diagrams See exactly how to draw a kanji correctly!
- Asynchronous loading Akebi opens instantly: you can start typing in the word you want to find while Akebi loads the dictionary in the background.
- Tiny memory footprint Akebi uses only 20mb of storage space for the entirety of its data. Compressions are handwritten by myself!
- Holo themed Using ActionBarSherlock, I've totally rethemed the entire UI, adding tonnes more features and making the app much easier to use
- No DRM Because it just makes everyone angry!
- No Ads Because they kill battery life!
Akebi has to do an initial ~20mb download when it starts - so make sure to have internet access on first use!
Recent changes: Updated to support the latest version of Android. Attempted to fix strange issues with the data file downloader. Hopefully more to come soon!
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If you could add a feature to send the list to someone else's akebi app, then it would be perfect. Best app for vocab/kanji practice.
★★★★★mqbaka mqbaka· Sep 18, 2024
This app is fantastic. It's the best app for learning Japanese, and it's all offline. Too bad there are no updates and this doesn't work on new Android versions.
★★★★★Alex Grey· Jul 15, 2024
This is the best Japanese dictionary app. This app got everything you need and more. I've been learning Japanese for a while and this app helped me so much to improve my vocab
★☆☆☆☆Los Walidos· Jul 16, 2023
The worse app when it comes to hand writing a kanji. The app never suggest the target kanji. Ridiculous. Also, it doesn't suggest much of words when you start inputting. For example Tap you wil never get suggested. Please improve your app.
★☆☆☆☆Sterling Williams· Oct 31, 2023
Janky and cluttered ui. Search from main page clears out what you typed when you perform the search forcing you to type it all over again.
★★☆☆☆Adam Cotton· Jun 19, 2022
Useful app, needs improvement. Unfortunately all the example sentences are too complicated, convoluted, and obscure. These should be the simplest possible examples, because this app is intended for learning the language. The List Quiz function is also not well-developed and not useful for study. It couldn't be that hard to code it to function just like Android. I use Akebi to compile words and export to Anki, but even that is cumbersome. Good offline dictionary but much room to improve.
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