rikaichan is a popup Japanese-English/German/French/Russian dictionary extension for Firefox.
Features:
- Simple to use, just hover the mouse on top of a Japanese word.
- Automatically de-inflects verbs and adjectives.
- Has an optional toolbar that allows you to manually type the word to lookup.
- Detailed kanji view shows meaning/keyword in English, on/kun readings, and other information.
- Hiragana, katakana and half-width katakana are treated the same making it possible to lookup stylized/emphasized words.
Download
Requires: Firefox 2.x/3.x, Thunderbird 2.x/3.x, Seamonkey 2.x.
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2. The main dictionary v1.13 (2010-01-17) (select one)
Japanese-English Dictionary Install Japanese-German Dictionary Install Japanese-French Dictionary Install Japanese-Russian Dictionary Install * Only one word dictionary should be installed. |
You can now also download rikaichan from mozdev.org and addons.mozilla.org. |
Beta
Requires: Firefox 3.x, Thunderbird 3.x, Seamonkey 2.x
rikaichan 2.00b1- [b1] Use an sqlite database for the dictionaries. Expect significantly less memory use and faster turn-on time, although it will require a bit more disk space.
- [b1] Various code cleanup.
Dictionary 2.00.100206 (for rikaichan 2.00b1)
- Fixed: Dictionary may be installed as read-only on some systems which causes index creation to fail.
Problem with this beta? Send an email here.
Acknowledgments
Rikaichan exists thanks to the work of these guys... :)
Todd Rudick for rikaiXUL [link]
rikaichan was originally based on this extension
by Todd Rudick who also created the original popup dictionary site rikai.com.
James William Breen, Jean-Marc Desperrier, Oleg V. Volkov, Ulrich Apel, and the Electronic Dictionary Research & Development Group for JMDICT/KANJIDIC/ENAMDICT [link]
The guys that made the dictionary data used in rikaichan.
Michael Raine and James William Breen for RADKFILE
Parts of the data used for the kanji display are based on this work.
Josh Glover for Thunderbird port
Thanks to Josh's work, rikaichan now works with Thunderbird.
