Ziyo

In the beginning of 2024, I built Ziyo, a stupidly simple online Kanji dictionary and search engine. It is heavily inspired by Jisho and an iOS application named Shirabe Jisho. With Ziyo, you can search across thousands of kanji and view its readings, meanings, variations, and example sentences. This makes Ziyo very useful for Japanese learner who wants to do a quick search about a kanji.

Ziyo ジヨ · Japanese-focused Kanji dictionary

A stupidly simple, no-BS Japanese Kanji dictionary for Japanese learners

ziyo.nourman.com

Ziyo can search a kanji by:

• Onyomi reading (Kana/Latin)
• Kunyomi reading (Kana/Latin)
• Chinese Mandarin reading (Pinyin readings)
• Korean reading (Hangul/Latin - Hanja readings)
• Meanings

Interface

Open Graph Images

It also generates beautiful and informational opengraph image for each kanji!

Techstack

• Nx for monorepo management
• Next.js for frontend
• Tailwind + Shadcn UI
• Hono.js for backend
• Typesense for the search engine