I'm looking for a tool online that lets me copy & paste a text onto it, and then looks up only the kanji in the text, gives me the english meaning of all the kanji, and the on & kun readings. It would really save me a lot of time for my class if this actually existed. Anybody know of one?

Does it have to be necessarily online? Because I use the firefox extension named "Moji" for pretty much the same...

Hmm, the first thing I thought of was WWWJDIC's Text Glossing tool, but that's for words... I hope you find one!

I was wondering the same thing.

The Rikaisama toolbar for Firefox does this. It defines the word, but also gives you synopses on all kanji, including English keywords, on/kun, radical number, and indices into all of the major textbooks and dictionaries (Heisig, Henshall, Nelson, H&S, etc.).

it does, but i wanted something that can look up the entire text's kanji automatically.. and give me the rikaichan type kanji stuff

i'm about willing to pay somebody to make this for me >_< my teacher is insane I swear.

Hashiriya Wrote:it does, but i wanted something that can look up the entire text's kanji automatically.. and give me the rikaichan type kanji stuff

Ahhhh, sorry - I get you.

If you paste your text into http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-b...dic.cgi?1B and select IM as the input option, it will kind of do this. The formatting sucks, though. That would be a useful tool...

omg! thank you so much! you have no idea how much time this will save me this semester. The format is good enough for me

Hashiriya Wrote:omg! thank you so much! you have no idea how much time this will save me this semester. The format is good enough for me

You're welcome. This is what I used to (manually) detect and pull all of the JLPT N1 kanji out of a chunk of arbitrary text. Worked well enough. Have fun!

Also, are you aware of cb's Japanese Text Analysis Tool? Seems like it might be useful to use in conjunction with WWWJDic:

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=9459