JEDict is multilingual dictionary capable to search any plain text files including:

• EDICT dictionaries - all Japanese-English dictionaries from Monash University FTP Archive.
• Wadoku JT - Japanisch-Deutsches elektronisches Wörterbuch.
• BEDIC dictionaries - *.DIC and *.DZ dictionaries from BEDIC project.
• XDXF dictionaries.
• Stardict dictionaries.
• EIJIRO dictionaries in TEXT format, availbale in EIJIRO Ver. 144 or earlier.
• HanDeDict - Chinese-German Dictionary.
• EPWING dictionaries.

Originally JEDict was developed as a Japanese-English dictionary, therefore it supports all conceivable methods of kanji lookup.

JEDict has internal text editor, multilingual user dictionary, handwritten kanji recognition, JLPT list viewer and a web browser with contextual word translation.

Unregistered version supports limited number of dictionaries: EDICT, KANJIDIC and one XDXF/Startdict dictionary.