Hello everyone,

I've worked for a truly useful program "Rikaichan" that I used to check kanji and spellings for at least more than a year now. But now I'm trying to learn to write(type) Japanese in Word. I obviously can't check whether I choose the right kanji for whatever word, since there are multiply ways to write a particular word in kanji.

In a nutshell, I'm asking: Is there a Rikaichan-like program that's available for Word? I've been looking for quite a while, but haven't found anything similar.

Yours,

Ken

You could save the word file as an html and then open it in your browser, though that might be a pain if you want to check as you write. I think some there are a few dictionary programs allow for pop up definitions, but I've never used them so I'm unable to comment.

Hello,

I know there's one, Wakan, but it doesn't seem to co-exist with Windows 7. It seems to crash, and takes down several other programs with it too. So beyond that, there's nothing that I have found that worked with Word. Regarding saving in html, that's just impracticable for me.

Nevertheless, I appreciate the suggestion!

Use a dictionary like jisho.org

Nothing like that for Word. But as an alternative you can type your documents in Google Drive and just use rikaichan.

Kenitai Wrote:Hello,

I know there's one, Wakan, but it doesn't seem to co-exist with Windows 7. It seems to crash, and takes down several other programs with it too. So beyond that, there's nothing that I have found that worked with Word. Regarding saving in html, that's just impracticable for me.

Nevertheless, I appreciate the suggestion!

I use Wakan in Windows 7 and it works perfectly.

I also use EBWin, which can also lookup words from the clipboard automatically.

You could try my program KanjiTomo, it's not ideal for this purpose since it's usually used with images, but it should also work with any program that contains plain text.

Kurotowa Wrote:You could try my program KanjiTomo, it's not ideal for this purpose since it's usually used with images, but it should also work with any program that contains plain text.

That looks like a really cool/useful tooｌ. Adding it to my collection thanks.