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Jisho vs Kiten: catalog facts
Jisho	Kiten
Free Free to use online.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0-or-later licence.
Web	Windows, Linux
Kanji lookup by radicals or handwriting Searches words, kanji, sentences and names at once	English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries Kanji dictionary with several lookup methods
Works only online Japanese-English only	Built around KDE, so it looks most at home on a Plasma desktop Focused on lookup rather than structured lessons
Web application	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-2.0-or-later
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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