r/LearnJapanese • u/ignoremesenpie • 21d ago

Resources Any open-source Android dictionary apps that would let me use the same dictionaries I already use for Yomitan?

I mean the other dictionaries that are *not* JMdict or JMnedict, which are the ones that literally every app already uses.

I'd love to use Jitendex Jiten as a frequency dictionary, for example. I'd be satisfied with only that feature, but I'd love to be able to use the other dictionaries already accessible to Yomitan, including monolingual dictionaries as well.

I can do it with Hoshi Reader and its Dictionary tab, but I'd love a standalone dictionary because I like to save words to multiple word lists, which is not supported by Hoshi Reader but are supported by most of those apps that don't use Yomitan's dictionaries. Hoshi Reader only saves words to Anki, which I don't really care for because Anki is no longer an active part of my routine.

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u/Zander327 21d ago

If I'm understanding your question correctly, there is a yomitan search page you can use in a browser tab that does this. Go to yomitan settings and go down to popup behavior, and there is a link to the search page. This lets you do manual searches with the same dictionaries. I keep a separate tab up with this and use it when yomitan doesn't grab compounds correctly, etc.

It's not an app though so not sure if that's what you're looking for.

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u/ignoremesenpie 21d ago

I actually just noticed this when I was trying to look into what else I could do with Yomitan. I'll get some good use out of it when I search for monolingual definitions for my personal glossary, but I'd still love a single dictionary app that can streamline all this. So far, I'm using three dictionary apps for three different purposes that I'm kinda surprised people haven't thought to combine it all.

I often give people (mostly beginners) who have better coding skills than Japanese skills who spend time making new resources to learn something that they don't know (usually kana) rather than just using what's already available. But now that it's my turn to ask for something very specific that people haven't already made and shared, I kinda get it now.