Jisho (cli)

A simple cli tool to look up Japanese words using jisho.org's API. Additionally, searching for kanji by radicals and browsing tatoeba's database of example sentences is also available.

Jisho dictionary

Searching by radicals

Tatoeba sentences

Installation

Binaries are directly available from the release tab.

Compilation

Download source and run

cargo build --release

Usage

A readline wrapper like rlwrap is strongly recommended if using jisho-cli interactively (-i or empty input).

jisho [<words to look up>]
jisho :[<radicals in kanji>]
jisho _[<expressions in  sentences>]

When looking up kanji, * (or ＊) can be used to add a radical that can't be easily typed, e.g. 气.

Note

To search kanji by radicals, the radkfile needs to be installed in either ~/.local/share/ on Linux or ~\AppData\Local\ on Windows.

Example sentences taken from tatoeba.