JMdict

JMdict
Type of businessNonprofit
Type of site
Japanese dictionary
Available inEnglish
URLwww.edrdg.org/~smg/
CommercialNo
Current statusPerpetual work-in-progress

JMdict (Japanese–Multilingual Dictionary) is a large machine-readable multilingual Japanese dictionary. As of March 2023, it contains Japanese–English translations for around 199,000 entries, representing 282,000 unique headword-reading combinations.[1][2][3] The dictionary files are free to use with attribution (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike[4]) and have been widely adopted on the Internet and are used in many computer and smartphone applications. The project is considered a standard Japanese–English reference on the Internet and is used by the Unihan Database and several other Japanese–English projects.[2]

  1. ^ "JMdict Entry Count". Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b Morales, Daniel (25 June 2018). "At 180,000 entries, Jim Breen's freeware Japanese dictionary is still growing". The Japan Times. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  3. ^ Breen, Jim. "The EDICT Dictionary File". Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  4. ^ "General Dictionary Licence Statement". EDRDG. Retrieved 5 November 2020.