Film the pages of a Japanese book with your phone, drop the clip on the Book Video tab, and the site reads
the pages and builds a vocabulary list. You can also open the book straight into Stream Vocab so you can
read it phrase by phrase with every word defined. Novels and manga are both supported (a manga comes out one
phrase per speech bubble), a second clip can add or repair pages to the set, and a "Page location" switch in
Stream Vocab shows a small picture of the scanned page with the current phrase boxed. Signed-in users can
leave a running scan and find it in My History when it finishes.
A Play button in Stream Vocab reads the current phrase aloud in a natural Japanese voice, lighting each word
as it is spoken. Choose one of five voices and a reading speed, or press Play all to hear the whole text. Works for any streamed text, not only a scanned book. Paste a passage, fetch a page from a URL, or open a
saved list and press Make List & Stream.
Lists made while signed in are saved automatically and listed under My History next to your quiz history,
so a list made from a URL, a file or a book video can be reopened later. Stream Vocab now has its own address
for every phrase.
Sixty example sentences, each with a native speaker's recording and additional voices at normal and slow
speed, with an English translation. Record yourself and compare. The Sounds score tells you whether the right sounds
were said, and an Intonation score compares your pitch to the native pattern on a graph with the tolerance
band drawn in. Signed-in users keep a history of their takes and can see their best score per sentence.
A Chrome extension that shows Japanese definitions while you watch Netflix, YouTube and Crunchyroll. It reads
the subtitle on screen and shows each word's reading and meaning in a movable panel over the video or in a
detached window, and it can build the whole episode's vocabulary list.
JLPT vocabulary quizzes for N5 through N1, with a "Words to use" selector for how large a pool to draw from,
and a pause on every wrong answer so you can see what was right. Accounts are optional, sign in to keep your quiz history with a drill-down into every question.
The same release added the account page, the site-wide privacy policy and one
feedback page for the whole site.
Type an English word and get the Japanese words that mean it, with readings, romaji, JLPT level and a link to
each word's usage page. Every English meaning has a page of its own.
Every Word Usage page shows a Synonyms row and a pitch accent diagram, including for compounds such as
日本語. A word typed in kana now lands on its kanji page.
Enter one or more kanji and get every dictionary word containing them, ranked by real-world frequency, with a
position filter for words that begin with, end with, or contain the kanji in the middle.
Word Popularity Over Time and the Word Usage gauges gained three sources: anime subtitles (6 August), Japanese
business documents (10 August, v0.98), and JDrama, over a thousand Japanese scripted series from 2000 to 2026
(10 August, v0.99.1). Word Usage now shows all six gauges on one row: web, forums, classic literature, anime,
business and drama.
The words whose usage changes the most: the biggest risers and fallers in each source, in a Short-term mode
(one to three years) and a Long-term mode (five years and more). Compounds such as 令和 are ranked
alongside single words.
Chart how often a word appears year by year from 2013 to 2026 across Japanese web pages, including recent
coinages the dictionary does not know. Two more sources followed within days: Forums (millions of posts from
2003 to 2026) with a popularity badge, a Recent Searches page and share links (2 August, v0.90), and Classic
Literature (Aozora Bunko works from 1890 to 1970).
Anime and YouTube lists publish themselves to a shareable /list address as soon as they are made, and a shared
list, site, topic, usage or timeline link shows a rich preview card on X and Facebook with the word and its
top vocabulary on it.
The Aozora Word List is a vocabulary table over the whole Aozora Bunko library of classic Japanese literature,
with JLPT filters, the number of stories each word appears in, and links into the stories. Word Usage gained a
Literary meter and a "Use Aozora Bunko Stories" toggle that blends classic examples into a word's page. In addition a lexicon of 275 slang and casual senses, each with its origin, similar terms and a real example, was overlaid on Word Usage with a Slang badge.
Search for an anime and build a vocabulary list from one episode's subtitles or the whole
series. Large lists are paginated so a full season loads quickly.
The YouTube tab builds a vocabulary list from a video's Japanese captions, or streams the video in sync with
its vocabulary: every word is highlighted as it is spoken with exact per-word timing, the speed is adjustable
without changing the pitch, readings can be shown in hiragana, and a Make Link button shares the synced view.
Every Word Usage page can open a Word Graph, an interactive network of a word's related words three levels
deep. Click any node to center it and expand from there. This release also added the Remove Furigana page: paste
text or a URL and get it back with the small ruby readings stripped out, ready for reading practice or a
vocabulary list.
Look up any Japanese word and see how it is actually used: example sentences from Japanese web pages, related
words, common expressions, the pages it appears on most, and an English to Japanese lookup for when you only
know the English. Rarer words are filled in from the wider web, a "Did you mean?" catches mistyped kana, and
the Recent Lookups page lists what others have searched.
The vocab maker recognises historical kana spelling (旧仮名遣い) in pre-war texts and converts it before
extracting vocabulary, so a Meiji-era story from Aozora Bunko produces the right words. The converter page
does the conversion on its own for any text, and its interface is available in Japanese as well as English.
Give it a website and it reads the site's pages and builds a vocabulary list from them, with context
sentences taken from the pages themselves. Choose how wide or how deep it reads, and share the finished list
by its address.
Type a topic, such as 料理 or ちいかわ, and the site searches the web, reads the Japanese pages it finds and
builds the hundred most characteristic words, each with up to five context sentences and a link to the source,
plus a JLPT difficulty breakdown. Lists are shared by a readable romaji address.
The site launched with the vocabulary maker at its core feature: paste Japanese text, give it a URL, upload an image
(a photo of a page, held any way up), a PDF, a text, subtitle or EPUB file, or an audio recording. It creates a vocabulary list with readings, romaji, dictionary definitions, JLPT levels, frequency, part of speech
and context sentences. Sort and filter the list, export it to Anki or Quizlet, quiz yourself on the words, or share it
with Make Link. Stream Vocab reads a text phrase by phrase with every word of the phrase in a table beside it,
synced to the audio for a transcription.