SUMMARY

Quickly look up Japanese words on any text page by activating the add-on from the toolbar (you may need to use the Extensions menu to pin the icon to the toolbar) or pressing Alt+R. Features: • Pitch accent information • Dictionaries that update automatically twice a week • Recognition of a wide range of grammatical forms and characters (e.g. 食べてた, 分からん, 知らん, じーちゃん, 頑張ろー, そーゆー, ぬ verbs, とく・どく forms, causative passive, vs-c verbs like 兼した, and characters like ㋕, ㌀, ㋿, ????沢, and many more) • Translation of Japanese numbers into Arabic numerals (e.g. 13億5千万 into 1,350,000,000) • Translation of yen amounts (e.g. 100億円, 8万8千円) into a local currency • Translation of Japanese-era years into Gregorian years (e.g. 昭和５６年, 平成三十一年) • Translation between 畳/帖 measurements and square meters (e.g. 四畳半、12.6 帖、25 平米 etc.) • Translation of shogi moves (e.g. ☗８三銀引成) • Support for the widest range of Web content (Google docs, YouTube subtitles, vertical text, SVG images, hidden text etc.) • Support for non-English dictionaries (unfortunately no Japanese-Japanese dictionary is freely available yet) • Up-to-date kanji data including educational and kanji kentei levels, reworked kanji components etc. • Many settings to customize to your needs • Localization into Simplified Chinese and Japanese • Automatic preview of name entries when there is a better match in the name dictionary Version 1.21.0 changes • Added stroke animations to the kanji tab! • Fixed handling of shadow DOM content in Chrome 128+ • Fixed matching of 0年 Version 1.20.0 changes • Extended the support for honorific speech. ◦ Added imperative for くださる ◦ Added addtional forms of ます ◦ たら・たり and て-form ◦ Imperative ◦ Added respectful speech ◦ Continuous form (ていらっしゃる, てらっしゃる) ◦ なさる ◦ になる ◦ Added humble speech ◦ Continuous form (ておる, とる) ◦ 致す ◦ Fixed recognition of irregular verb forms of 宣う • Added support for irregular verb forms of 給う. • Fixed recognition of continuous forms of verbs with irregular te form. • Added supported for doing unit conversions to imperial units. • Added links from WaniKani annotations in the words and kanji tabs to the corresponding page on the WaniKani homepage. • Fixed a condition that could cause some preferences to be overwritten causing, for example, the puck to suddenly disappear. • Fixed duplicate matching of names with both 新字体 and 旧字体. • Fixed display of matches on search-only forms so they don't appear as part of the entry. Version 1.19.0 changes • Made it possible to change tabs in the popup by swiping horizontally. • Bundled fonts used by the popup to provide consistent display and avoid issues with sites that patch system fonts. • Changed puck behavior to no longer hold the popup window like a regular mouse event would. • Made copying to the clipboard include rare headwords again when not using simplified copy mode. • Made the popup no longer show when tapping on text boxes and other interactive elements. • When searching using just kana (e.g. し and ヤク), made kana matches be prioritized. • Fixed sorting between various deinflected results so that 進む appears before 進ぶ when looking up 進んでいます. • Made the popup update after the database update is complete. • Made senses no longer be restricted when matching on search-only headwords. • Fixed translation of odd numbers with digits and multiple powers of ten like 11,786百万円. Version 1.18.0 changes • Made the puck persist its position, orientation, and active state between pages. • Updated the clipboard copy feature: ◦ Added a new setting to copy a simplified version of the entry that may be more suitable for making flashcards etc.. ◦ Definitions are now separated by line breaks. ◦ Rare headwords are excluded from the result unless we matched on them. • Fixed a case of 10ten not looking up text with ruby correctly in Ttsu reader. • Stopped popup being inverted when Wikipedia's experimental dark mode is enabled. Version 1.17.1 fixes • Fixed support for Google Docs. • Improved rendering of source language information. • Added localization and handling for new rk (rarely-used kana form) tag. Version 1.17 includes • Added option to show Bunpro vocabulary and grammar labels next to words. • Added localizations for newly-introduced field tags. • Fixed slow lookup for long text spans. Version 1.16.1 includes • Enabled Manifest Version 3 • Made the options page show up in a new tab • Lookup fixes ◦ Fixed recognition of words that end in half-width numerals like 小1 ◦ Added parsing for ill-formed numbers like 39,800万円 ◦ Made matches on search-only headwords show the search-only version too (e.g. 磨ガラス, ペイチン) ◦ Hid the "usually kana" annotation when no kanji headwords are shown ◦ Added ability to recognize (deinflect) a few more irregular verbs like ございません and くださいます • Keyboard fixes ◦ Added handling to avoid the x key being assigned to both closing the popup and expanding it • Other bug fixes ◦ Fixed the popup changing width in some cases (e.g. when tabs are hidden and scrollbars are configured to always show) Version 1.15.0 includes • Collapsed popup window to only show the most relevant results by default ◦ You can restore the old behavior by choosing "Expand all entries → Words" from the settings screen ◦ You can view other entries by scrolling the popup window or by expanding it to show all entries by clicking the downward triangle button or pressing x on the keyboard • Popup shows kanji details for all kanji in the longest matched word • Setting for changing the font size of the popup • Options page support for dark mode • Option to disable looking up words by tapping on them on touchscreen devices • WaniKani level data. This can be enabled from the options page under the "Popup style" and "Kanji dictionary" sections. • Handling for kanji incorrectly encoded as radicals • Handling of pages with elements and nested