Kiten is a Japanese reference and study tool. It features an English to Japanese and Japanese to English dictionary, as well as a Kanji dictionary.
For the Kanji dictionary there are multiple ways supported to look up characters.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Dictionary:
- Kiten works mainly as a Japanese -> English dictionary, but it works from English -> Japanese too. This means you can write in english, hiragana, katakana or kanji to search in the dictionaries.
- If you have extra dictionaries in the correct formats, visit the “edict” and “kanjidic” configuration pages in: Settings -> Configure Kiten -> Dictionaries, and use the “Add” button.
- Then Kiten will search under all of these and display the results separately.
- Radical Selector – this tool helps you to find a kanji by just filtering its radicals. Only click on the buttons with the desired radicals and Radical Selector will find all the kanji that contains those radicals, this way you can find a kanji without knowing anything about its readings or meanings. Once you find the kanji you can just click on it and Kiten will automatically search for it in the dictionary*.
- Kanji Browser – browse all the kanji available in the KANJIDIC dictionary and be able to search by Grade and Number of strokes. By clicking on the kanji you can access detailed information such as stroke order, onyomi and kunyomi readings, meanings, grade and more.
Website: invent.kde.org/education/kiten
Support:
Developer: Jason Katz-Brown
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Kiten is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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