Yomiwa Japanese Dictionary and Translator FREE @ Apple App Store
Yomiwa is an easy offline way to translate Japanese with your camera. The app displays a pop up with English translations and definitions of single kanjis and words as soon as you point to Japanese characters with your iPhone or iPad. You can as well take a picture or pick one from your camera roll and navigate it to translate chosen characters. Yomiwa also has a built-in drawing feature for you to draw and translate Japanese characters on your touch-screen, in order to learn and practice writing Japanese. Yomiwa also includes a built-in dictionary searchable in Japanese (text or drawing) or English (as well as French, German and Spanish).
Features:
– A complete built-in dictionary with full informations about words, kanjis (on-yomi, kun-yomi, meaning, stroke order etc.) and example sentences
– An Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithm which lets you translate Japanese characters with your camera or from your camera roll pictures
– Translate words made of all types of Japanese characters (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana)
– A proper names database (such as people names, places, locations…)
– Japanese pronunciation of words in roman letters (romaji) or hiragana / katakana.
– Get the meaning of single or combinations of Kanjis
– Draw characters on the screen to translate them and practice writing Japanese
– Read either horizontal or vertical Japanese text
Yomiwa is perfect for:
– Use as a dictionary
– Read and understand Japanese text (newspaper, manga, books,…)
– Learn and study Japanese Kanjis (meaning, reading, drawing, writing)
– Translate Japanese words in everyday life situations
– Instant on-the-go translation when travelling in Japan
– Overcome the language barrier!
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