Jotoba is a free online, selfhostable, multi-language japanese dictionary based on lots of various free resources.
Public instance: jotoba.de
| JojiiOfficial | Yukaru |
| Backend dev | Frontend dev |
Almost all of the data used by jotoba.de comes from external sources like edrdg for Words, Kanji, Names and Radicales or WaniKani and Kanjialive for audio sources. For a detailed list of used resources and their licenses please visit jotoba.de/about.
Please refer to our Trello board for a roadmap and the developing progress.
Jotoba is entirely open source. Contributions are highly welcome and can be made by anyone who wants to help Jotoba grow.
That being said, all API endpoints exposed by Jotoba are documented and allowed to be used (within a fair amount).
Refer to API-Docs for the API documentations and to CONTRIBUTION for an introduction in how to contribute code to Jotoba.
Jotoba is aimed to be a multi-language dictionary thus the website is aimed to be fully translated into all available languages.
However, the main developers of this project don't speak ~10 languages.
If you're interested in contributing to this project we are thankful for each translation contribution.
For a guide on how to add translations please refer to the wiki.
Please refer to the wiki for a guide on how to host Jotoba yourself.
Jotoba itself is licensed under AGPL 3.0 or later. Please refer to the license file for further information. Joto-kun (including all of his variants) is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.