I will gladly pay high monthly fee if you can add Mandarin pinyin & Cantonese Jyutping
I will gladly pay high monthly fee if you can add Mandarin pinyin & Cantonese Jyutping
A Great Korean Dictionary, But…
I love this app, and all the functions are great, but I would love to be able to organize my bookmarks and place them into separate folders so I can study vocab easier. Right now, I don’t see any option for that, and all the words I bookmark are put into one long list that I can’t sort. It’s a little frustrating to find specific words in my bookmarks.
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한자 Korean Chinese Character options nice
I was loving the Korean Chinese based Character options and explanations, now I realize it is also a fully functional dictionary. This is the best for bookmarking newly learned words, seeing the Chinese based Character used and then linking it to other words that use those Chinese based Characters. With 60% of Korean words being Chinese character based; this Dusajeon Korean Dictionary is awesome. I enjoy learning a character and then seeing a list of words the character is used in.
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Very good
This is my favorite of the various Korean dictionary apps I have tried. The interface is well designed and snappy and it’s great to have one that works offline. The sources used to populate the dictionary seem to be of high quality with definitions in English, Korean, and Chinese, and plenty of examples.
There are some really useful features here if you have experience with another East Asian language: the prominence of the hanja display, the ability to show variants of the hanja from other languages next to the Korean ones, and the ability to freely switch between searching in any of the four supported languages are all highly useful.
There are still some rough edges I’d like to see sorted and some features I’d like to see:
* romanizations are strict character-by-character transcriptions and don’t accurately reflect pronunciation which imo defeats a lot of the purpose of having them
* there is pronunciation hangeul, which mitigates the above problem, but it’s not there for every word where the pronunciation deviates from the spelling
* you can’t hear the pronunciations unless you turn on your ringer
* it’d be really useful if you could export your bookmarks to Anki
* some words appear twice. They are different definitions, presumably from different sources, but the display could probably be better.
* conjugations would be a useful feature, especially if you could also search by conjugated words
In spite of these suggestions I do use the app regularly and it was well worth the price.
There are some really useful features here if you have experience with another East Asian language: the prominence of the hanja display, the ability to show variants of the hanja from other languages next to the Korean ones, and the ability to freely switch between searching in any of the four supported languages are all highly useful.
There are still some rough edges I’d like to see sorted and some features I’d like to see:
* romanizations are strict character-by-character transcriptions and don’t accurately reflect pronunciation which imo defeats a lot of the purpose of having them
* there is pronunciation hangeul, which mitigates the above problem, but it’s not there for every word where the pronunciation deviates from the spelling
* you can’t hear the pronunciations unless you turn on your ringer
* it’d be really useful if you could export your bookmarks to Anki
* some words appear twice. They are different definitions, presumably from different sources, but the display could probably be better.
* conjugations would be a useful feature, especially if you could also search by conjugated words
In spite of these suggestions I do use the app regularly and it was well worth the price.
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search function is horrible and examples are useless
great app with many features but needs a lot of work. searching in english yields useless results, as there is absolutely zero frequency sorting, so the word wanted doesnt show up until close to the bottom. also, examples are always way too complex and use the word in a way completely unrelated to the definition given, and the translation of the sentence doesnt use the translation of the word so it’s very unclear how the word is being used in the sentence
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Finally!
I have been looking for something like this for a long time since no paper source provides a full list of Hanja characters. For me it’s an essential tool to learning the Korean vocabulary.
감사합니다!
감사합니다!
A perfect offline Korean dictionary app
Really great, fast, and user friendly app. I love this for my Korean studying!
I left a previous review about an issue I was having with the app, and the developer reached out to me and resolved my issue! Thank you for a great app and a great gift to the Korean learning community.
I left a previous review about an issue I was having with the app, and the developer reached out to me and resolved my issue! Thank you for a great app and a great gift to the Korean learning community.
Response from developer
Thank you for using Dusajeon! If you send a bug report from the settings screen, we can get this bug figured out for you! Hope you continue to enjoy using the app!
Perfectly suitable UI and customization
This is a great dictionary, I love the UI too. A feature I would really like to see added is folders and lists for bookmarks, as well as a simple flashcard SRS system for training.
*edit* This dictionary lacks the ability to search words in "bulk", or "phrases". It needs the feature to break phrases down into likely individual components. This would make it so much better!
*edit* This dictionary lacks the ability to search words in "bulk", or "phrases". It needs the feature to break phrases down into likely individual components. This would make it so much better!
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Almost perfect, but can’t copy
Really great, fast, and user friendly app. The only issue I have with it, is that I don’t seem to be able to copy any of the words, the copy button always appears disabled. It would be 5 stars if I was able to copy the vocabulary.
Response from developer
Thank you for using Dusajeon! If you send a bug report from the settings screen, we can get this bug figured out for you! Hope you continue to enjoy using the app!
Perfectly suitable UI and customization
This is a great dictionary, I love the UI too. A feature I would really like to see added is folders and lists for bookmarks, as well as a simple flashcard SRS system for training.
Amazing tool
This is a super great vocab tool, the only things that could add to it are
1) a number displaying how many bookmarked words we have. could be nice for tracking progress and keeping motivation
2) integrated flash cards, or perhaps a way to export to anki
1) a number displaying how many bookmarked words we have. could be nice for tracking progress and keeping motivation
2) integrated flash cards, or perhaps a way to export to anki
Using this DAILY
As a English/Chinese Speaker learning Korean this app has been crucial, my only wish is that there was a function to tip the developers because this App has been one of the most productive tools in the plight of learning Korean, thank you SOOOO much!!!!!! A++++++++
Using this DAILY
As a English/Chinese Speaker learning Korean this app has been crucial, my only wish is that there was a function to tip the developers because this App has been one of the most productive tools in the plight of learning Korean, thank you SOOOO much!!!!!!
A++++++++
A++++++++
Great!
As a Japanese speaker learning Korean, this is absolutely the best dictionary app out there. My only small complaint is you can’t copy the hangul for words. You can copy the hanja but not the hangul too, which is inconvenient if you want to make flashcards from them. Thanks so much for this free resource
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great app, frustrating bugs
I love this app, and use it for KR-JP purposes. The lookup function and example sentences (when they work) are fantastic. However, I find that after looking up a few words, the next time I tap on the search bar and start inputting a word, the app crashes (on both iPad and iPhone). It is persistent to the point that I rarely use the app because it cannot support my usage of it, which is honestly a shame - I want to use this app more, but simply cannot due to it crashing when I try to use it for more than a few words. I hope the developer(s) might be able to fix this issue.
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Response from developer
Hello, this crashing issue has been fixed in the latest version (2.5.2). Thank you for reporting this issue and also for your use of Dusajeon! I hope that Dusajeon may continue to be an invaluable tool in your studies. 🎊
Best Free Dictionary App I’ve ever used
So convinient and has so many features.
app goes hard
i don’t even write reviews like that but i just had to let everybody know that if you’re studying Korean, GET DUSAJEON FR. don’t be like past me and think “i don’t need to know hanja.” cus honestly knowing hanja (the meanings) really does help honestly. kinda like how knowing prefixes and suffixes can help you come to the conclusion of an unfamiliar word.
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My favorite Korean dictionary
Not many Korean apps even acknowledge Chinese characters but this app integrates them so well and it makes learning new words from combining hanja super easy. Highly recommended!
Great app, hope it keeps expanding
Been looking for an app like this for a long, long time. Although Corean education is moving away from Hanja, it is absolutely critical to understanding the language more completely. Generally, I love Daum Dictionary for better understanding of how various, “similar” words have distinctly different tone and meaning, but DuSajeon has a much more responsive and simple interface. Love this app and so grateful to the developer! Please keep expanding the number of words included! This is the app I wished existed when I was a kid struggling with multiple paper dictionaries! ㅋㅋㅋ
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Offline is great
I like being able to use it without internet connection and having the both Korean and Chinese characters helps a lot too
