List of Japanese dictionaries
Title Year ( Period ) Notes
Dai Kan-Wa Jiten 1955-1960 , 1990 , 2000 Tetsuji Morohashi 's Chinese-Japanese character dictionary , 13 volumes , 2 supplements , over 50,000 entries
Daijirin 1988 , 1995 , 2006 comprehensive single-volume Japanese dictionary , 3 editions
Daijisen 1995 , 1998 general-purpose Japanese dictionary , 2 editions
Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan 2006-present English , French , and Japanese dictionary of classical Japanese literature
Diego Collado 's Grammar of the Japanese Language 1632 ( Edo period ) grammatical description of Japanese in framework of Latin grammar
EDICT 1991-present Jim Breen 's machine-readable multilingual Japanese dictionary , KANJIDIC for kanji , more than 180,000 entries
Eijirō 2002-2014 large English-Japanese translation database , 8 revisions
Gjiten 1999-2006 free software using GNOME development libraries , allows searching dictionaries like EDICT
Iroha Jiruishō 1165 ( ? ) ( Heian period ) first kanji dictionary to collate characters by pronunciation rather than logographic radical , several revisions and expansions
Jikyōshū 1245 ( ? ) ( Kamakura period ) Kanji dictionary with Chinese rime and Japanese pronunciations , 3 editions
Kagakushū 1444 ( Muromachi period ) first semantically collated dictionary of Chinese characters , designed for average users rather than scholars , 3000 entries
Kenkyūsha 's New Japanese-English Dictionary 1918 … 2003 largest and most authoritative Japanese-English dictionary , 5 editions ,
Kiten 2001-2006 KDE Software Compilation 's program for learning kanji
Kodansha Kanji Learner 's Dictionary 2002 Jack Halpern 's Kanji-English dictionary , collated by SKIP system , also pronunciations and radical indexes
Kōjien 1955… 2008 Shinmura Izuru 's bestselling authoritative single-volume dictionary , 6 editions , 240,000 entries
Kokushi Daijiten 1927 , 1979-1997 general-purpose dictionary of Japanese history , 15 volumes
The Modern Reader 's Japanese-English Character Dictionary 1962 , 1974 Andrew Nelson 's kanji dictionary , 5,446 entries
Moji 2011 open source , cross-platform extension for using Japanese and Chinese dictionaries
The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 1997 John H. Haig 's revised edition of The Modern Reader 's Japanese-English Character Dictionary , 7,000 entries including variants
Nichi-Ran jiten 1934 Peter Adriaan van de Stadt 's Japanese- Dutch dictionary , 33,800 entries
The following is a list of notable print , electronic , and online Japanese dictionaries . This is a sortable table : clicking the arrows in the header cells will cause the table rows to sort based on the selected column , in ascending order first , and subsequently toggling between ascending and descending order .
The following is a list of notable print, electronic, and online Japanese dictionaries.