Does this kanji-lookup tool exist?

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Reply #1 - 2012 August 27, 6:18 pm
Hashiriya Member
From: Georgia Registered: 2008-04-14 Posts: 1072

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?

Last edited by Hashiriya (2012 August 27, 6:18 pm)

Reply #2 - 2012 August 27, 6:29 pm
faneca Member
From: Spain Registered: 2010-06-30 Posts: 96

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

Reply #3 - 2012 August 27, 6:43 pm
Bokusenou Member
From: America Registered: 2007-01-12 Posts: 820 Website

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

Last edited by Bokusenou (2012 August 27, 6:44 pm)

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Reply #4 - 2012 August 27, 6:48 pm
warakawa Banned
From: Melbourne Registered: 2012-08-06 Posts: 149

I was wondering the same thing.

Last edited by warakawa (2012 August 27, 6:49 pm)

Reply #5 - 2012 August 27, 7:05 pm
gaiaslastlaugh 代理管理者
From: Seattle Registered: 2012-05-17 Posts: 525 Website

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.).

Reply #6 - 2012 August 27, 10:31 pm
Hashiriya Member
From: Georgia Registered: 2008-04-14 Posts: 1072

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

Reply #7 - 2012 August 27, 10:53 pm
Hashiriya Member
From: Georgia Registered: 2008-04-14 Posts: 1072

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

Reply #8 - 2012 August 28, 12:17 am
gaiaslastlaugh 代理管理者
From: Seattle Registered: 2012-05-17 Posts: 525 Website

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- … 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...

Reply #9 - 2012 August 28, 7:39 am
Hashiriya Member
From: Georgia Registered: 2008-04-14 Posts: 1072

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 big_smile

Reply #10 - 2012 August 28, 10:01 am
gaiaslastlaugh 代理管理者
From: Seattle Registered: 2012-05-17 Posts: 525 Website

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 big_smile

You're welcome. smile 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!

Reply #11 - 2012 August 28, 2:30 pm
gaiaslastlaugh 代理管理者
From: Seattle Registered: 2012-05-17 Posts: 525 Website

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/viewtopic.php?id=9815

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