Version History

New versions of Jitendex are published weekly with the latest data from the JMdict and Tatoeba projects. Release notes are added below when the design or functionality of the dictionary is also updated.

Version 2024.10.28.0

  • All formats
    • Do not treat kana forms attached to kanji forms as possible discrete surface forms if they are rare, irregular, or outdated (Issue #19)
    • Add sense number restriction information to forms tables (Issue #76)
    • Create kana-only search keys based on information in priority tags (Issue #105)
  • Yomitan format
    • Remove Yomitan redirections for search keys with trivial kana differences (Issue #103)

Version 2024.10.18.0

  • Yomitan format

Version 2024.10.15.0

  • All formats
  • Yomitan format
    • Normalize reading keys to match expressions containing interpuncts (nakaguro) (issue #106)

Version 2024.10.07.0

  • Yomitan format
    • Use fallback CSS color variables to fix default rendering in Anki (issue #110)
  • All formats
    • Decrease maximum height of embedded images to 250 pixels

Version 2024.09.29.0

  • All formats

Version 2024.09.05.0

  • All formats
    • Change to a purely calendar-based versioning scheme
    • Use a green font color to highlight example sentence keywords (issue #102)
  • Yomitan format
    • Normalize reading keys to match expressions (issue #75)

Version 4.8 (2024-07-12)

  • Yomitan format
    • Add preliminary support for installing updates from within Yomitan (Yomitan #1174)
  • Mdict format
    • Fix broken pronunciation button styling (issue #100)

Version 4.7 (2024-04-21)

  • Yomitan format
    • Fix display issue with circular icons in forms tables (issue #61)
    • Use new yomitan definition format for redirections (issue #78)
    • Remove "gikun form" definition tag from kana-only headwords (issue #88)
    • Rename "gikun form" definition tag to "special reading" (issue #89)

Version 4.6 (2024-03-24)

  • All formats
    • Add background color to "extra info" boxes (issue #86)

Version 4.5 (2024-03-17)

  • All formats
    • Unify appearance of Yomitan and Mdict formats (issue #70)
    • Improve presentation of trademarked glosses (issue #84)
    • Various minor adjustments to font sizes, font styles, and margin sizes

Version 4.4 (2024-03-04)

  • All formats
    • Hide the "usually kana" tag if all kanji forms are hidden (issue #57)
    • Generate fresh JmdictFurigana JSON for each new release of Jitendex (issue #68)
    • Adjust display of Tatoeba example sentence footnotes (issue #80)
  • Yomitan format
    • Replace hyphens in Yomitan tags with non-breaking spaces (issue #82)

Version 4.3 (2024-01-28)

  • All formats
    • Use red emphasis dots instead of a red font color to highlight keywords in example sentences (issue #66)
  • Yomitan format
    • Slightly increase some font and margin sizes (issue #64)
  • Mdict format
    • Increase the size of pitch accent symbols (issue #69)
    • Adjust style of circle icons in forms tables to use solid colors

Version 4.2 (2024-01-22)

  • All formats
    • Use a red font color instead of a red wavy line to highlight keywords in example sentences (issue #52)
  • Yomitan format
    • Adjust the display of example sentences and references (discussion #60)
    • Hide bullets in glossaries with only one gloss (issue #63)

Version 4.1 (2024-01-14)

  • All formats
    • Minor style adjustments
  • Yomitan format
    • Slightly increase the size of the rectangular tag icons (from 70% to 80% of the normal font size)

Version 4.0 (2024-01-06)

  • All formats
    • Include links to the source JMdict and Tatoeba database entries within each corresponding Jitendex entry (issue #34)
    • Update form table symbols to use a （古） character for obsolete readings and a （旧） character for old character (kyūjitai) forms (issue #35)
    • Fix a bug in which Japanese example sentences with space characters were displayed incorrectly (issue #43)
    • Replace the curly brace markers around gikun (jukujikun) forms with double angle braces
  • Yomitan format
    • Replace all embedded SVG icon/tag images with plain HTML+CSS markup (issue #29)
    • Use a red wavy line to highlight keywords within example sentences (issue #29)
    • Replace the star emoji ⭐ used in definition tags with a less conspicuous ★ character (issue #36)
    • Other small style adjustments

Version 3.2 (2023-12-28)

  • All formats
    • Use embedded images to display obscure characters that are unsupported by most Japanese fonts (issue #31)
    • Fix a bug in which cross reference information was not displayed correctly in about a dozen entries (issue #33)

Version 3.1 (2023-12-12)

  • Yomitan (formerly "Yomichan")
    • Add a small amount of vertical padding between extra information items (example sentences, cross references, etc.)
    • Fix a visual glitch in which the corners of the rectangular images were not being rounded correctly

Version 3.0 (2023-11-16)

  • MDict Format
    • Add ~9,160 pronunciation audio files distributed across ~8,230 separate entries
    • Include pitch accent information for ~7,720 of the pronunciations
    • Align furigana in headwords with their respective kanji
  • All formats
    • Rewrite and expand the text displayed in all part-of-speech tags, miscellaneous tags, etc. (issue #11)
    • Align furigana in cross-referenced expressions with their respective kanji

Version 2.0 (2023-11-09)

  • All formats
    • Add furigana to approximately 22,000 of the 26,000 unique example sentences.
  • Yomichan
    • Increase font size of Japanese text in example sentences and cross references.
  • MDict
    • Change color of the keyword underline in example sentences from black to red.

Version 1.6 (2023-11-04)

Add color to the square braces surrounding sense restrictions. See the entry for ばね【発条】, for example.

Version 1.5 (2023-10-29)

  • All Formats
    • Change the symbol for valid kanji/reading forms to use the kanji 可 rather than 有.
    • Change the symbol for old kanji/reading forms to use the kanji 旧 rather than 古.

Version 1.4 (2023-10-21)

  • Yomichan
    • Fix a bug in which the text within monochrome SVG images was not converted into path data

Version 1.3 (2023-10-16)

  • Yomichan
    • Slightly increase the size of fonts in rectangular SVG images (again)
    • Add `data-sc-content` attributes to some glossary elements to allow for style customizations. Note that these attributes are volatile and may change in future versions.

Version 1.2 (2023-10-14)

  • Yomichan
    • Decrease size and increase weight of fonts in rectangular SVG images
    • Convert SVG text elements into paths to ensure text is always displayed the same regardless of browser or OS
    • Decrease font weight of text in table header cells
  • All Formats
    • For entries that contain only one sense, display the glossary as a block (i.e. underneath the part-of-speech tags) instead of inline (on the same line as the part-of-speech tags)

Version 1.1 (2023-10-12)

Adjust shape, size, and font of rectangular images in the Yomichan version

Version 1.0 (2023-10-09)

Japanese-English versions for Yomichan and MDict formats