Reading a vocabulary page

You can click words in vocabulary lists to access their vocabulary details page. They pack everything Jiten knows about that word into one place, and this guide walks you through it so nothing feels mysterious.

The headword

At the top: the word with furigana, an audio button to hear it (with your chosen voice), its global frequency Rank #, and the status control (if you are logged in) to master, blacklist, or add it to a study deck. If you arrived from a conjugated form via the search bar, a small grey line shows the conjugation chain that led here. Words borrowed from other languages show their etymology, and Japanese-made pseudo-loanwords get a 和製 (wasei) badge.

Meanings

Definitions come from JMDict, numbered by sense, each with colour-coded part-of-speech badges and info badges that are worth learning to read. You can always hover a badge to see what it means.

If you've imported your own Yomitan dictionaries, their definitions appear here too. Below the meanings sits your personal Notes block, where you can keep your own definition or mnemonic.

Forms

Most words in Japanese can be written more than one way: kanji, kana, alternative spellings. The Forms section lists them all with the approximate share of usage each one has in real media, and clicking a form switches the whole page to it: its rank, pitch, and example sentences. It's the quickest way to answer "should I learn this word in kanji or kana?"

Pitch accents and kanji breakdown

Pitch accents are drawn as diagrams over the kana, one per attested pattern. Below, the kanji breakdown shows each kanji in the word with its stroke count, mnemonic, and level on your preferred scale (JLPT by default, you can customize it); each button links to the full kanji page with even more info.

Where the word appears

This is an extremely informative part that will tell you if the word is really used in media:

• "Appears in x media" — how many titles in the library use the word, with a percentage. A word in 80% of media is a must-learn; a word in three titles is very niche.
• The per-media-type table breaks that down — some words live almost entirely in novels, others in games. Clicking a row filters the example sentences and media list to that type.
• Composed of and Used in show the word's building blocks and the compounds it appears in, each linked. This is great for learning how words are connected and help you remember them more easily.

Example sentences

Example sentences are real sentences from the corpus of media of Jiten, each with its source. You can sort them by Random, Easiest first, or Hardest first, which can help you find sentences more appropriate to your level. The star saves a sentence as one of your custom sentences so it shows on your study card, and the pencil lets you edit them or add your own.

At the bottom, an accordion lists every media title the word appears in and the number of times it appears, so you can literally pick your next read by "it uses the words I'm studying".