KanKan lets you search all entries from JMdict using fuzzy-matching in order to help with situations where you struggle to fully identify one or more kanji in a word.

Examples:

• 日本「言口」 finds 日本語
• 「火山」「糸」 finds 炭素
• 「虎」「土」き finds 嘘吐き
• 大「具」？目 finds 大真面目
• 「昔」水「舟皿」 finds 潜水艦. Notice that the first kanji in the search is incorrect, 潜 contains 替, not 昔 but KanKan still manages to find the right word thanks to the 日 component.
• 「夕」んだ finds 死ぬ. KanKan supports most common conjugation patterns, letting you search for conjugated words without having to guess the dictionary form

For ease of typing on various devices you can replace the 「」 characters with commas or <> (both full and half width variants) and they'll get replaced automatically: 、列、えば is equivalent to 「列」えば.

You can use the toggles below to enable a bigger dictionary (the default one contains only the top ~60k most common words) as well as enabling proper noun search. Enabling these options will trigger the download of additional data and slow down subsequent searches.