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Sorry, I have yet to go peruse Japanese dictionaries in my local bookstore. I’m working/learning mostly in hiragana right now and don’t know what would be suited for a beginner student. Is there such a thing as a Hiragana to English dictionary-English to Hiragana? Or am I going to only find Kanji-English dictionaries? Jisho.org works wonders for typing in the hiragana and getting an exact match but in the event that I would like to carry around a paper dictionary to look up hiragana, any suggestions?
Thanks.
The dictionaries that I own have romaji to english and vice versa. I think this is fairly standard. The one that I would recommend is: Its straight foreward and it romanizes よう as you and not yō.
But I strongly recommend electronic dictionaries like Jisho or Tangorin. (BTW they have a beta version that is awesome
If you have an iOS device I strongly recommend midori. (I think android has a tangorin app)I use imiwa on my iDevices. It’s handy.
The dictionaries that I own have romaji to english and vice versa. I think this is fairly standard. The one that I would recommend is: Its straight foreward and it romanizes よう as you and not yō.
Was going to say you forgot to mention what the book is, but while quoting I see it’s a formatting problem stopping it from showing up, so a slightly modified version: Random House’s Dictionary
Sorry late reply… but the yō romaji confuses me. If romanzing, I would prefer the よう.
Thanks for the link Joshua–as this is dictionary sheepishram was referring to. Will look for it when I go to the bookstore so I can flip through it in person.This mini pocket dictionary by Oxford works really well and gives the most common words in Hiragana/Katakana along with Kanji then it gives the English in the back as well and it also has common phrases. It is small enough to fit in your pocket and has a durable plastic cover. It is not very expensive either! Here is the link to amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Oxford%20Japanese%20Mini%20Dictionary
Kodansha’s Furigana Japanese Dictionary. Look it up on Amazon – beautiful book, great explanations, and affordable. Great English-Japanese section too.
Cooori JED on iOS is pretty good for a Japanese dictionary. You can look at the kanji in a word separately and it shows stroke order. Also, it’s a free app ^.^
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