About Japanese dictionary

About Japanese dictionary

Online Japanese dictionary will show you some of the Japanese symbols written in Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji from photographs taken in Japan. You will see the pictures of various Japanese signs used in Japan. There is a range of written styles, both vertical and horizontal left to right. How many can you recognise them? Read them and work out the English meaning, and learn Japanese language for real communication!

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Fire extinguisher Japanese symbols



Fire extinguisher Japanese symbols

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What if you see fire in Japan, you might need to look for a Fire extinguisher.

So today’s Japanese dictionary will show you the Japanese symbols of theFire extinguisher.

In Japan, anywhere you go you will find the Fire extinguisher and three Japanese kanji symbols written like the picture above.

These Japanese symbols are called Shoukaki in Japanese, and normally written in a red rectangle.

So if you see a fire in Japan, look for these Japanese symbols.


Japanese Beer Symbols



Japanese Beer Symbols

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Have you ever had a Japanese beer?

You might have seen the Japanese beer called Asahi.

Today’s Japanese dictionary show you the Japanese symbols which are used on the Japanese beer label.

First, if you take a look at the Japanese symbol in the middle, you see a big kanji symbol. This Japanese symbol is called Nama and means draft beer.

Secondly, you can notice Japanese katakana symbols underneath. They discribe what type of Japanese beer.

In this case, super dry.


Japan money symbols



Japan money symbols

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Yesterday we have shown Japanese money 1000 yen in our Japanese dictionary.

Today the Japanese dictionary show you the most expensive note - I CHI MAN YEN - 10000 and those Japanese symbols.

There are three kanji symbols. First kanji symbol is Ichi and means One. The second kanji symbol is man and means ten thousands. The last one is yen symbol.


Sample Japanese symbols



Sample Japanese symbols

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In Japanese, Mihon means sample and is written with two kanji symbols.

The first kanji symbol means look or watch by itself and the second kanji symbol means book in Japanese.

The way of writing a character with a different set of Japanese symbol is called kanji compound and this method is often used in Japanese language.

The Japanese dictionary will show you many kind of Japanese symbols used in Japan but also will explain the Japanese grammar as well.


Japanese money - 1000 yen

Japanese money 1000 yen

Today’s Japanese dictionary show you the Japanese money and Japanese symbols written on a paper.
There are 4 different type of Japanese papers, starting from 10,000, 5,000, 2,000, and 1,000 yen.
2,000 yen is very rare, as they only issued only 1 time.
Today’s Japanese money is 1000 yen.

Now, if you see the Japanese symbols on the left, there are 2 kanji characters, which says 1,000 yen.
The first kanji symbol means 1,000, and the next symbol means yen in Japanese.
There are also 5 Japanese symbols on top. They mean “Bank of Japan - Nippon Ginkou”.


Japanese symbols of Egg and soup

Today’s Japanese dictionary will show you two different Japanese picture and Japanese symbols, and
we will show you how they are really used in a Japanese food products.
Those Japanese symbols are:

  1. Egg in Japanese
  2. Soup in Japanese

Take a look at the following pictures.

Japanese egg symbols

Let me explain about how we write egg in Japanese. We use three hiragana symbols to write egg in Japanese, and they are called Ta Ma Go. In the picture above, the last 3 big Japanese symbols are egg characters in hiragana.
The other first symbols are the name of the egg. The brand name of the egg.

sou Japanese symbols

This picture is the soup ingredients. In Japanese, we call Soup as “Suu pu”, and use 2 katakana symbols and prolonged sound between su and pu symbols. As you can see the picture, the are the last Japanese symbols.

Today’s Japanese dictionary showed you the Japanese symbols which are used in Japanese food products.
By the way, if you are interested in Japanese food, we would recommend Japanese food site.
This Japanese food site show you different sorts of Japanese food and how to cook information.

If you are also looking for accurate Japanese symbols for yourself, we would recommend Japanese symbols site.


Emergency Exit



Emergency Exit

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Today’s Japanese dictionary show you the emergency symbols which is often used in Japan.

On the panel, you can see words “EXIT” and three Japanese symbols. These Japanese symbols are pronunced as Hijyouguchi in Japanese and literally means emergency exit. All Japanese symbols are kanji and the first two kanji symbols mean emergent and the third symbol mean exit. The last symbol can also means mouse.

Funny ya?

In Japan, you can see these sign and Japanese symbols almost everywhere.

Any other Japanese symbols you would like us to add into our Japanese dictionary?

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live in Japan



live in Japan

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Finding an apartment in Japan is either going to a Japanesese real estate, using the Internet or reading a free realestate magagine you can find in a subway.

Today’s Japanese dictionary show you some Japanese symbols used in a realestate magagine.

So that you can learn how to read them when you rent an apartment in Japan.

First, if you look at the picture, you can see Japanese symbols that represent the place and the near stastation. These are the the most important information.

Secondly, you check the layout and the rent price.


Toilet Japanese symbols



Toilet Japanese symbols

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When you come to Japan, finding a toilet is to look for the above Japanese symbols.

In Japanese, it is called O TO I RE and they are written with a Hiragana symbol and two kanji symbols.

This picture was taken in the Japanese subway.


Japanese dictionary: Apartment



Japanese dictionary: Apartment

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Today we are adding the Japanese symbols of apartment into our Japanese dictionary.

If you want to live in Japan, you need to rent a place to live, and if you want to rent a room in an apartment, this is what you look for.

In Japanese, it is called A pa a to and is written with katakana symbols. As you might know that we normally use katakana symbols to write a forein word, apartment actually belongs to the foreign words. That is why we use the katakana symbols to write.