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PERAPERA is the free companion to the Pera Pera section of Nihongoism, Bob Myers's newsletter on the Japanese language.

Before you start

PERAPERA writes every word in kana only, so we recommend mastering hiragana and katakana before using it. Search still takes romaji.

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Sources

The word list comes from JMdict, © the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under its license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Usage data comes from NINJAL's Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese, through its Shonagon and Chūnagon search tools. From it, PERAPERA shows:

how common each word is in real use
which meanings of a word are most common
which words are usually written in katakana

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