Furigana

SUMMARY

Furigana (振り仮名) is chrome extension that convert kanji (japanese text) to furigana, that is a japanese text with small hints above each word how to pronounce it. For known words it also displays english meaning of the word. It uses my own dictionary-based kanji tokenizer. Data are from EDICT dictionary plus my own data.

Unlike similar extensions (e.g. IPA Furigana), this one converts all kanji, not just the hard ones. It also converts hiragana and katakana.

For example:

Original: 時速５０１キロ体験！リニアモーターカー車内映像 ！

Furigana: jisoku 501 kiro taiken! rinia mootaakaa shanai eizou!

IPA Furigana: jisoku ５０１キロ taiken ！リニアモーターカーshanai eizou!

How to use it?

Select text you want to translate. Right-click to display context menu and choose "Furigana" with yellow icon. This will translate selected text.

Because sometimes it hard to select entire sentence, especially around the edges, when you select the middle of sentence, entire block of text will be translated.

You can also translate text in popup window (click on yellow icon in upper right corner, type text and press button "Furigana").

You can add new words to dictionary and publish it for others.

The latest version of Furigana is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 20,000 active users. The initial version was launched on 2018-08-08.

HOW TO INSTALL Furigana FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download Furigana CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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