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Japanese Definitions
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Fills Japanese Anki cards offline with JMdict English definitions, furigana and part of speech, including batch filling and manual sense selection.
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Description
Japanese Definitions fills your Japanese cards with English definitions from JMdict, the word's furigana and its part of speech β fully offline, and fully configurable.
Features
- Populate Definitions: fill hundreds of notes at once from the browser, with a progress bar. Can be undone with Edit β Undo.
- Choose Definition: pick the right entry yourself when a word has several meanings (γ―γ: bridge, chopsticks, edgeβ¦), choose which senses to keep, and see a live preview. Works from the browser and during review.
- Remembers your choices: once you've picked an entry for a word, batch filling reuses it.
- Conjugated words: ι£γΉγγγγγ, ζΈγγ¦γγ, εεΌ·γγΎγγβ¦ are looked up as ι£γΉγ, ζΈγ, εεΌ·.
- Furigana: fills a field with θ¦[γγ]ζ[γ], θ¦ζ[γγγ], plain kana or HTML ruby.
- Part of speech: in its own field or inline before each definition, with editable labels.
- Ignores furigana in your input: θ¦ζ[γγγ] is looked up as θ¦ζ.
- Fast: the dictionary is cached and loaded in the background.
How to use
- Tools β Japanese Definitions Settingsβ¦ (or the Config button): choose your input field (the word) and the output fields (Definition, Part of speech, Input (Furigana)).
- In the browser, select notes β Edit β Japanese Definitions β Populate Definitions. Right-click works too.
- To pick a specific meaning: select one note β Choose Definitionβ¦ (default Ctrl+Alt+D), or press Ctrl+Alt+D during review.
Everything is customizable in the settings: fields, number of definitions, list format, capitalization, separators, part-of-speech labels and templates, furigana format, lookup options and all keyboard shortcuts.
The first use builds a dictionary cache (about 15β20 seconds, once). After that, loading takes a couple of seconds in the background.
Requirements Anki 2.1.50 or later.
Credits & licence This add-on uses the JMdict dictionary file, property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used in conformance with the Group's licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). Furigana data from JmdictFurigana by Doublevil (CC BY-SA). Add-on code: MIT licence. Source: github.com/Jo-Mako-Anki/japanese-definitions
Feedback Bug reports and suggestions: GitHub. Please don't use reviews for bug reports β I can't reply to them.
README
Japanese Definitions β Anki add-on
Fill your Japanese cards with English definitions from JMdict, the word's furigana and its part of speech β fully offline and fully configurable.
Features
- Populate Definitions β fill hundreds of notes at once from the browser, with a progress bar. Undo with Edit β Undo.
- Choose Definition β pick the right entry when a word has several meanings (γ―γ: bridge, chopsticks, edgeβ¦), choose which senses to keep, with a live preview. Works in the browser and during review.
- Remembered choices β once you've picked an entry for a word, batch filling reuses it.
- Conjugated words β ι£γΉγγγγγ, ζΈγγ¦γγ, εεΌ·γγΎγγβ¦ are looked up as ι£γΉγ, ζΈγ, εεΌ·.
- Furigana β
θ¦[γγ]ζ[γ],θ¦ζ[γγγ], plain kana or HTML<ruby>. - Part of speech β in its own field or inline, with editable labels.
- Ignores furigana in your input β
θ¦ζ[γγγ]is looked up as θ¦ζ. - Fast β the dictionary is cached and loaded in the background.
Installation
- AnkiWeb (recommended): Tools β Add-ons β Get Add-onsβ¦ and enter the code from the AnkiWeb page.
- Manual: download the
.ankiaddonfile from Releases, then Tools β Add-ons β Install from fileβ¦
Requires Anki 2.1.50 or later.
Usage
- Tools β Japanese Definitions Settingsβ¦ β choose your input field (the Japanese word) and the output fields.
- In the browser, select notes β Edit β Japanese Definitions β Populate Definitions (also in the right-click menu).
- To pick a specific meaning, select one note β Choose Definitionβ¦, or press the shortcut during review.
| Action | Default shortcut |
|---|---|
| Choose Definition (reviewer) | Ctrl+Alt+D |
| Choose Definition (browser) | Ctrl+Alt+D |
| Populate Definitions (browser) | Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D |
All shortcuts can be changed in the settings.
Settings
| Tab | Options |
|---|---|
| Fields | Input field, Definition, Part of speech, Input (Furigana); overwrite existing content |
| Definitions | Number of definitions, format (plain / bulleted / numbered), capitalization, ; β , |
| Part of speech | Separate field or inline, label style, custom labels, separator, HTML template |
| Furigana | Kana / Anki furigana / HTML ruby, per kanji or per word |
| Lookup | Ignore bracketed furigana, deinflection, background loading, remembered choices, cache |
| Shortcuts | Every keyboard shortcut, with conflict detection |
The first use builds a dictionary cache (~20 seconds, once). It is rebuilt automatically when the dictionary files change.
Building from source
Requires Python 3.9+, standard library only.
python build.py # downloads the dictionaries if needed, then builds
python build.py --update-data # forces the latest JMdict and JmdictFurigana
The add-on is written to dist/JapaneseDefinitions-<version>.ankiaddon. The version comes from src/JapaneseDefinitions/manifest.json.
For development, you can link src/JapaneseDefinitions into Anki's addons21 folder and copy JMdict_e.gz and JmdictFurigana.json.gz from data/ next to it.
Bug reports
Please open an issue with your Anki version, the word you looked up, and what you expected.
Credits & licence
- Dictionary: JMdict, property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used in conformance with the Group's licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Furigana: JmdictFurigana by Doublevil (CC BY-SA).
- Deinflection rules inspired by Yomitan.
- Add-on code: MIT.