Furigana

Convert japanese text (kanji, kana) to latin (roumaji)

What is Furigana?

"Furigana" is a unique Chrome extension designed to simplify the complex Japanese language. It converts kanji, hiragana, and katakana to roman characters (roumaji) with highlighted pronunciation hints. Apart from standard words from the EDICT dictionary, the tool lets users add their own translations. Enhance your reading with complete translations or enjoy the additional furigana support which other competitors fail to provide.

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By: Dusan Halicky

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 3.68 (38)

Version: 3.0.90 (Last updated: 2021-09-02)

Creation date: 2018-08-08

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
activeTab

Size: 645.12K

Email: du*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

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# 8799 ▼ 8

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#3058 in Workflow & Planning #133 in display keyword 15 ▼ 1

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Extension summary

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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.

User reviews

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Pros

Offers furigana or hiragana over kanji options
Provides English translations when hovering over words
User-friendly for converting lines of text
Helpful for translating Japanese text
Ability to display hints of translation

Cons

Manual process can be tiresome
Romaji is not preferred by many users as furigana
Inconsistent conversion with some kanji
Patreon reminder is intrusive
Requires copying text to the app window

Most mentioned

Romaji is not ideal for furigana
Manual process can be tiresome
Need for a better way to show hiragana over kanji
Patreon reminder is annoying
Overall dissatisfaction with certain functionalities

Recent reviews

吳秉樺, 2024-08-08

Uh ... How do I import a dictionary? Every JSON file I tried keeps saying "unexpected token"!

Jeffrey Sosebee, 2024-06-25

The person above said that he hopes that Hiragana can be displayed on the Chinese characters instead of Romaji, and a button for independent selection can be set.