Furigana
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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.
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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Furigana is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.
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Furigana has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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