I don't know much about this stuff but I suggested on the yomichan thread http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=7074&page=1 that a J-J dictionary be added and the creator, Foosoft said he would add J-J if someone could find him a free J-J dictionary to use. I really want to see J-J in that application so I thought I'd go hunting for the knowledge rather than waitingnfor it to come to that thread (and I can't find a good answer in google). I believe the first dictionary that he used for yomichan was EDICT, so I'm looking for something like that, I guess. Something that can be accessed by an offline program like yomichan.

日本語Wordnet, maybe?
http://wordnetepwing.sourceforge.jp
I think it's translated from the English Wordnet though, which means it's not as good as one of the commercial dictionaries.

Thanks, that looks really cool. Does anyone else know of any similar J-J dictionaries that perhaps aren't transalated from a J-E dictionary?

Maybe the following link gives you some free dictionary ideas. Not affiliated but purchased a few commercial (and picked up a few free) dictionaries from this guy and use them on my computer and phone.

He also has some good tips on tuning your phone to use as a dictionary by the way.

http://japaneselanguagetools.com/docs/other_dics.html

There aren't really any general purpose free J-J dictionaries there though. Does anyone have any more ideas? Or does anyone know how to replace the dictionary in yomichan with a paid for J-J EPWING dictionary?

Helena4 Wrote:There aren't really any general purpose free J-J dictionaries there though. Does anyone have any more ideas? Or does anyone know how to replace the dictionary in yomichan with a paid for J-J EPWING dictionary?

The second option might be your best bet, since as far as I know, there's no free J-J equivalent of EDICT. The only software programs I've seen support EPWING are Rikaisama & the beta versions of GoldenDict though. I have no idea how hard it is to implement, but I think it would be much more useful than EDICT to a lot of learners who are beyond the beginner level. I know I'd at least check it out if it had EPWING support.

If you use a mac these is a built in jj dictionary. You just need to enable it in the settings.

Getting Yomichan to work with EPWING requires actual dev work, it's not just a matter of dropping it in and renaming it, or anything like that. I can do it if someone lets me borrow their dictionary file to implement the change.

You're awesome, Foosoft. I better get my hands on an EPWING dictionary then. Unless anyone else who already has an EPWING dictionary appears before then.

Any EPWING dictionary? There are some in these links you could use:
http://www.japaneselanguagetools.com/docs/Edict.html
http://www.japaneselanguagetools.com/docs/Enamdict.html
http://maximilk.web.fc2.com/index_ml.html