JWM dictionaries available

The blue title of each section below refers to the archive name, whilst the red title is the actual dictionary name(s).

To use any flashcard/vocabulary course, add it to the Flashcard dictionary list and then open the Lesson planner to select the lessons you wish to include in exercises.

Reference dictionaries should be added to your Reference dictionary list instead, and Kana conversion dictionaries should be added to your Kana-to-Kanji dictionary list.

Flashcard/vocabulary courses
Kana flashcards (Hiragana and Katakana dictionaries)
Hiragana and Katakana flashcard dictionaries (46 flashcards in each dictionary) with stroke order diagrams and native Japanese pronunciation. These form the basic phonetic alphabets used in the Japanese language (Hiragana are used for Japanese words, and Katakana for foreign words), and are the first character sets which students learn before being introduced to Kanji. Each dictionary has the Kana arranged in the usual order of introduction, and most students begin by learning the Hiragana first.

Basic vocabulary (Basic vocabulary dictionary)
This is a 3000 word structured vocabulary course for beginning and intermediate students which contains a selection of Hiragana and Katakana only words (494 entries and 105 entries respectively), as well as words containing various Touyou Kanji.

The Kanji are further broken down into sets by Year and Lesson number, broadly based on the Kanji grade system. They follow a progressive introduction of Kanji, using the JWM Kanji code.

Each word in a particular set includes Kanji which are in the target set or below. For example, Year 1, Lesson 1 only contains words with the first 10 Kanji. Year 1, Lesson 2 only contains words with the first 20 Kanji (ie. 10 of which are new), and so on.

Heisig flashcards (Heisig Kanji dictionary)
Based on James Heisig's Remembering the Kanji, this dictionary contains 2042 Kanji flashcards with concise memorisation keywords in English. No Hiragana readings are included. Flashcards are grouped in sets of 10, by increasing JWM Kanji code. Thus, low lesson numbers are simple Kanji, and high lesson numbers are more difficult Kanji.

Kanji flashcards (Touyou Kanji flashcards and non-Touyou Kanji flashcards dictionaries)
This pair of dictionaries contains 6033 Kanji flashcards in total, separated into Touyou and non-Touyou. This allows beginning and intermediate students to learn the Touyou Kanji (the 1850 Kanji recommended by the Japanese Minstry of Education for use in current Japanese newspapers, magazines, etc.) and advanced students to also have access to traditional Kanji. Each entry in each dictionary contains multiple On and Kun readings and a comprehensive English meaning.

Reference dictionaries
Edict (Edict dictionary - importation required)
A 66,000+ word general reference dictionary. This is a freeware data file, coordinated by Jim Breen (jwb@dgs.monash.edu.au) of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Periodic upgrades are released at the Monash University ftp site (ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo). Japanese WordMage contains a specially developed 'Edict type line format' import engine to convert Edict into a JWM compatible dictionary file. This is a very good reference dictionary, and is recommended for all users of JWM.

The translation aid built into JWM works very effectively with this reference dictionary, since it contains a wide range of words including political, business and economic terms.

Enamdict (Enamdict dictionary - importation required)
A 160,000+ word Japanese proper name dictionary containing place-names, surnames and given names. This is a freeware data file, coordinated by Jim Breen (jwb@dgs.monash.edu.au) of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Periodic upgrades are released at the Monash University ftp site (ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo). Japanese WordMage contains a specially developed 'Edict type line format' import engine to convert Enamdict into a JWM compatible dictionary file. This is a very good proper name dictionary, and is recommended for users of JWM who need information (such as Kanji designations) of Japanese surnames or place names.

Jddict (Jddict dictionary - importation required)
A 718 word German-Japanese dictionary containing basic vocabulary. This is a freeware dictionary data file. Japanese WordMage contains a specially developed 'Edict type line format' import engine to convert Jddict into a JWM compatible dictionary file.

Kana conversion dictionaries
Kana conversion WNN (Kana conversion WNN)
A very good 30,000 word Kana conversion dictionary with a range of Kanji and Kanji compounds. Recommended for all JWM users. Included as part of the program installer.