Our approach
A dictionary that keeps going
Semantide turns a lookup into a path. Search in English, Japanese, or romaji; inspect readings and forms; or paste a passage and take it apart piece by piece.
Beyond a definition
Query syntax narrows results by proficiency level, word class, school grade, stroke count, radicals, and more. The search guide covers every supported option, including wildcards and era-year conversion.
Semantide is part of the lyricalearn family and runs entirely on publicly licensed dictionary sources.
Where the data comes from
Semantide combines several open language resources. We are grateful to their maintainers and contributors for making careful, structured Japanese-language data widely available.
JMdict
Created by Jim Breen and maintained by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, JMdict supplies most of Semantide’s word entries.
JMnedict
Readings and details for Japanese personal, place, company, and other proper names.
KANJIDIC2
Kanji readings, meanings, stroke counts, variants, and the reference indexes shown on every character page.
RADKFILE
Maps each kanji to its visual parts, which is what makes the radical picker work.
Tatoeba and the Tanaka corpus
Japanese sentences alongside community-maintained translations.
KanjiVG
Ulrich Apel’s vector stroke-order diagrams, redrawn here in the colours of the active theme.
JLPT level lists
Jonathan Waller’s published lists, converted to structured data by Bluskyo and supplemented for kanji through David Luzgouveia’s kanji-data project.
Corrections and credits
Each project keeps its own editorial process — the FAQ explains where to send a correction, and the data and licences page carries the full notices.