Kanji Dictionary

Dart implementation of KANJIDIC, a popular Kanji dictionary used by jisho.org/. See www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project.

Features

• lists out all the characters of KANJIDIC.
• lists out ordered beginner-friendly list of Kanji.
• meanings per language.
• readings per language.
• difficulty by JLPT level and grade.
• index from 21 books.
• can also parse a custom version of KANJIDIC xml.

Getting started

Add the package as a dependency.

Usage

Basic usage

import 'package:kanji_dictionary/kanji_dictionary.dart';

void main() async {
  final kanjiDictionary = await KanjiDictionary.instance;
  final character = kanjiDictionary.get('亜')!;
  print(character.literal);
  print(character.meanings[Language.english]);
  print(character.readings[Reading.japaneseOn]);
  print(character.readings[Reading.japaneseKun]);
  print(character.difficulty.jlpt);
}

Prints out:

亜
[Asia, rank next, come after, -ous]
[ア]
[つ.ぐ]
1

Listing the 15 easiest Kanji

import 'package:kanji_dictionary/kanji_dictionary.dart';

void main() async {
  final kanjiDictionary = await KanjiDictionary.instance;
  print(kanjiDictionary.charactersByDifficulty
      .take(15)
      .map((c) => c.literal)
      .join(' '));
}

Prints out:

一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八 九 十 百 千 日 月 火

Using your own custom KANJIDIC xml

import 'dart:io';

main() async {
  final xmlKanjidic = await File([your own kanjidic2.xml]).readAsString();
  final kanjiDictionary = await KanjiDictionary.fromXml(xmlKanjidic);
}

Contributing

If you want to contribute, you should clone the project, then generate kanjidic2xml.dart by running:

dart bin/generate_kanji_dic2_const.dart