Japanese dictionary look up. You may type in the word in Japanese, Hiragana, Romaji or English. For example, if you want to look up the word "lover" in Japanese, you can search for either "恋人", or "こいびと", or "koibito", or "lover".

RomajiDesu English Japanese Dictionary and Converters

RomajiDesu is a free online Japanese ⇆ English dictionary which contains the following useful tools for Japanese learners:

  • Japanese-Romaji-English dictionary: A powerful but very easy-to-use English-Japanese dictionary where you just need to type your word into a single input. The input may be Japanese (Kanji, Hiragana, or Katakana), Romaji or English. The dictionary will find the appropriate definition and example sentences containing the word for you.
  • English Japanese Kanji dictionary: This includes a powerful Kanji lookup form and a multiple Kanji radicals (parts) lookup method. Each kanji has beautiful stroke order diagrams and detailed informations such as sample words.
  • Romaji to Hiragana converter and Romaji to Katakana converter: These are the starting point if you start to learn Japanese. It's useful if you know the Romaji form of some Japanese words and want to see how to write it in Hiragana/Katakana. The converters can also translate the word or phrases into English using Google translate engine.
  • RomajiDesu mobile! You can access a light version of RomajiDesu that is dedicated to smart phones and tablets at m.romajidesu.com. You will be automatically redirected to this version on a mobile device. Of course, you can alway switch back the the standard version anytime you want.

  • RomajiDesu Bookmarklet:

    RomajiDesu ← Drag this bookmarklet to your toolbar, select any word on any website, and click the bookmarklet to look up the word.

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