Famous Japanese Dictionary

Hello, this is Shin who produced iPhone Speaking APP named Catch Questions. 

As a developer of Catch Questions, I would like to introduce my favorite APPs which were very useful in my life. 

For the first introduction, I would like to show you the most famous Japanese dictionally which is actually and generally used by Japanese.  

The dictionally is named “Daijirin”or “大辞林” in Japanese. One of the features about this dictionally is big, heavy and thick. As the volume of information looks too much, It actually covers the usage of not only old traditional words but also brand new dialect words such as radical one which is recently used by Japanese girl in high school. 

It occupies our book shelf of ordinary family but has few chance to be read because it was difficult to lift up and hard to find the word we want from the massive information. Then, why did I buy it? It may sounds strange to the people in the other country. Why we bought it was that everybody bought it.  It’s like a tradition to have it like a bible. It relieves us with its existence in our house. 

In addition, the necessity of the dictionally always comes while we are out or at office, not at our home.

So, at first, it was so surprising that iPhone can have the tough dictionally in the device without any weight and enabled us to bring it everywhere with iPhone. 

The other useful feature as iPhone APP was you can search words with handwriting or Kanji shape. As you may know, Kanji words consist of several common shape called “Bushu”. So, it was very useful tool to search the difficult kanji with its partial shape by handwriting.  

If you are now studying Japanese, I would definitely recommend you to have it! 

iPhone world dictionary with Catch Questions