Our approach
A dictionary that keeps going
Semantide turns a lookup into a path. Choose Japanese, Chinese, French, or English in the search field, then search in that language; inspect readings and forms; or paste a passage and take it apart piece by piece.
Beyond a definition
Query syntax narrows results by proficiency level, word class, school grade, stroke count, radicals, and more. The search guide covers every supported option, including wildcards and era-year conversion.
Semantide is part of the Fluidity family and runs entirely on publicly licensed dictionary sources.
Where the data comes from
Semantide combines several open language resources. We are grateful to their maintainers and contributors for making careful, structured dictionary data widely available.
JMdict
Created by Jim Breen and maintained by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, JMdict supplies most of Semantide’s word entries, including glosses in English, German, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch, Spanish, French, Swedish, and Slovenian.
JMnedict
Readings and details for Japanese personal, place, company, and other proper names.
KANJIDIC2
Kanji readings, meanings, stroke counts, variants, and the reference indexes shown on every character page.
RADKFILE
Maps each kanji to its visual parts, which is what makes the radical picker work.
Tatoeba
Japanese sentences alongside community-maintained translations.
KanjiVG
Ulrich Apel’s vector stroke-order diagrams, redrawn here in the colours of the active theme.
JLPT
Jonathan Waller’s published lists, converted to structured data by Bluskyo and supplemented for kanji through David Luzgouveia’s kanji-data project.
CC-CEDICT
CC-CEDICT is the open Mandarin Chinese–English dictionary maintained by MDBG. It supplies simplified and traditional writings, numbered pinyin, and English glosses.
Wiktionary
French and English word senses, pronunciations, and inflected forms come from the English Wiktionary, extracted with Wiktextract and published by kaikki.org. Wiktionary content is dual-licensed CC BY-SA and GFDL.
FrequencyWords
Headword ranking uses OpenSubtitles-derived frequency lists published by Hermit Dave (FrequencyWords).
Unihan
Han character stroke counts are taken from the Unicode Unihan database where available.
Corrections and credits
Each project keeps its own editorial process — the FAQ explains where to send a correction, and the data and licences page carries the full notices.