What is 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)?
Look up Japanese words with the hover of a mouse.
After enabling the add-on from the toolbar (or press Alt+R) simply hover over Japanese text and a popup displays corresponding dictionary definitions.
Use Shift/Enter to cycle through the available dictionaries (word dictionary, kanji dictionary, names dictionary), and 'd' to toggle hiding the definitions. You can use 'c' to select entries to copy.
Features:
- Pitch accent information
- Support for non-English dictionaries
- Dictionaries that update automatically every week by fetching just the updated entries
- Translation of Japanese yen amounts (e.g. 30??) into another currency
- Translation of Japanese numbers into Arabic numerals (e.g. 13?5?? into 1,350,000,000)
- Translation of Japanese-era years into Gregorian years (e.g. ??56?????????????)
- Translation between ?/? measurements and square meters (e.g. ????12.6 ??25 ?? etc.)
- Translation of shogi moves (e.g. ?8????)
- Recognition of a wide range of grammatical forms (e.g. ???, irregular verbs like ????????, continuous forms like ????, ? as a negative form like ????????, words with ? like ???????????????, ? verbs, ??·?? forms like ????, causative passive, ??? for verbs ending in ? e.g. ?????)
- Automatic preview of name entries when there is a better match in the name dictionary
- Handling of a wide range of characters including ?, ?, ?, 𠏹?, 8?, B????, ????
- Localized into Japanese (so you can study Japanese while you study Japanese!) and Simplified Chinese
- Prioritization of common matches
- Support for displaying romaji
- Copy feature that allows selecting which entry and in what format to copy to the clipboard
- Support for vertical text and text in SVG images
- Minimal memory usage
- Kanji data for Kanji kentei, Conning references, updated educational levels, heavily reworked kanji components etc.
10ten Japanese Reader aims to be simple, reliable, fast, and always up-to-date.
Previously Rikaichamp.
Comments and Reviews
Has more features than any other alternative. Smarter for various translation context, like converting year, date format, and currency.
Simple to install and use. Really helpful for students of Japanese.