There are 2 very nice extensions that provide furigana for web pages automaticaly:

This one provides furigana.
https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/6178

You can choose your "kanji level" or edit it manualy. It seems very friendly, but the furiganas it generates are somewhat unreadable.

This one fixes it and gives very nice furigana. You can even adjust the font size.
https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/6812

What is the difference between the Ruby recommended by the extension and the one you recommend?


Awesome, this removes those annoying parenthesis in the text from the audio book post!

The one recommended by the first tool doesnt let you adjust the size of the furigana.

Windows only. Blah

It is not windows only. Check the development page.

Yeah, you download the linux xpi file and then open it using Open File in Firefox.


These linux Japanese fonts look a lot better than the XP ones.

Does anyone know of something like this that only shows furigana when you hover over a word?

Basically what I want is rikaichan without the English translations.

shakkun Wrote:Does anyone know of something like this that only shows furigana when you hover over a word?

Basically what I want is rikaichan without the English translations.

What would you need that for? I mean, you obviously don't know the word if you need furigana so you will need to look it up, why not simply copy the kanji and paste into a dictionary? Dictionaries supply the furigana.

Usually to confirm my guess at the reading. What you said could surely apply to any form of furigana though.

Tobberoth Wrote:why not simply copy the kanji and paste into a dictionary? Dictionaries supply the furigana.

You could say exactly the same about Rikaichan. Just copy the word and look it up in a dictionary.

I don't know where to find such an extension, but Rikaichan could probably be modified. Maybe asking the author would be enough to put in a toggle switch for the English bits?

shakkun Wrote:Does anyone know of something like this that only shows furigana when you hover over a word?

Basically what I want is rikaichan without the English translations.

At your service. I have a page about rikaichan without English glosses on my blog: Learn to speak Japanese (my way . . . or yours ).

wccrawford Wrote:

Tobberoth Wrote:why not simply copy the kanji and paste into a dictionary? Dictionaries supply the furigana.

You could say exactly the same about Rikaichan. Just copy the word and look it up in a dictionary.

I don't know where to find such an extension, but Rikaichan could probably be modified. Maybe asking the author would be enough to put in a toggle switch for the English bits?

No, not at all. Rikaichan gives you everything you need in the window, which is why you don't need a separate dictionary. If you just get furigana though, what's the use? Simply learning the furigana won't teach you the word, so you would still need to use a separate dictionary. "Guessing" the reading is fine, but if you don't know it, you obviously don't know the word.

Nathanael Wrote:

shakkun Wrote:Does anyone know of something like this that only shows furigana when you hover over a word?

Basically what I want is rikaichan without the English translations.

At your service. Rikaichan without English glosses.

This is perfect, thanks!

Nathanael Wrote:

shakkun Wrote:Does anyone know of something like this that only shows furigana when you hover over a word?

Basically what I want is rikaichan without the English translations.

At your service. Rikaichan without English glosses.

Ah! Perfect! My hero! I was just thinking how I wanted that.

Tobberoth Wrote:If you just get furigana though, what's the use?

When I stripped the English meanings from the dictionary, I had the following ideas in mind.
・I don't want English meanings to interfere with the
　Japanese meanings. While there are some words
　where the meaning overlaps perfectly, they're fairly
　rare. Most words don't quite match up.
・I can figure out the meaning from context. I can't
　know the correct reading from context. In fact this
　seems most natural. I have an English vocabulary
　of around 40,000 words. I've looked up the meaning
　of maybe 3,000 or them. The rest were learned in context.
・Thus, I just want just furigana.

Nathanael Wrote:At your service. Rikaichan without English glosses.

Thank you so much. I've been yearning for something like this for a while. Yay!

Tks man!

Any chance for a real dictionary in Rikan-chan instead of Edict?

Nathanael Wrote:・I can figure out the meaning from context. I can't
　know the correct reading from context. In fact this
　seems most natural. I have an English vocabulary
　of around 40,000 words. I've looked up the meaning
　of maybe 3,000 or them. The rest were learned in context.
・Thus, I just want just furigana.

Quoted for truth. I would say I looked up maybe less than a hundred English words. Though a lot of words I learned were done so kinda along the lines of "Daddy, what does shit mean?" He didn't tell me the meaning, but in a funny way, he still taught me.

Ooh, nice. Might have to grab me that as well.

Tobberoth Wrote:What would you need that for?

We need it for whatever the hell we need it for.

Alyks, lol.

I would recommend using the Rikaichan without English glosses over the Furigana Injector for a few reasons

・The furigana injector confuses on and kun readings a LOT. I've hardly ever had this problem with Rikaichan. Quite simply, it's a much smarter plugin

・Ultimately, everybody's goal is to be able to read fluently without the use of furigana. My opinion is you will become more dependent upon furigana readings if you have the whole page written out for you. With Rikaichan you can just look up what you need.

・It's faster.

Tobberoth Wrote:f you just get furigana though, what's the use? Simply learning the furigana won't teach you the word, so you would still need to use a separate dictionary. "Guessing" the reading is fine, but if you don't know it, you obviously don't know the word.

I wouldn't agree with that. On top of simply learning words via context, there are many times when I know a word, but am unsure of the reading (or just plain forgot it).

Take for example 出勤.. If you had a momentary lapse and couldn't remember if it was しゅきん、　しゅうきん、　or しゅっきん, you could give yourself a gentle reminder by hovering over that word.

mentat_kgs Wrote:Tks man!

Glad to be of help

Quote:Any chance for a real dictionary in Rikan-chan instead of Edict?

The aren't any big technical issues with real dictionaries instead of EDICT. It's a matter of copyright, which is far more troublesome as it usually takes money and a fair bit of it.

How about I hypothetically send you my 大辞林 files and you hypothetically make it available for us on a hypothetical site? Or at least you would hypothetically send it back.

Wait wait, so if someone had 大辞林 in EPWING format (I do) and converted it to EDICT format rikaichan could read it? Is there software for that conversion? That would be insane. Some of the longer definitions would be pretty unwieldy though.

A plots a brewin me thinks...

Pardon me, I have no experience with Firefox.

so I have downloaded the addon that displays furigana, but how do you get it to do its thing? Does furigana appear wherever there is knaji? Do I have to click somewhere?

Anny help is appreciated.