Rikaichan without English glosses
Update: as of 28th June, Rikaichan v2.00 now allows you to use the ‘D’ key to hide the glosses so everything below this is unnecessary!
I used to use a plugin for Firefox called rikaichan that displays the EDICT dictionary entry for words when you highlight them. However, I found the English distracting, so I rebuilt the rikaichan dictionary file without English so it only displays potential readings of the words and some grammatical information.
Latest version
rikaichan-words.jar with English glosses removed (EDict dated 2008-10-28)
Instructions:
1. Replace your existing rikaichan-words.jar file from under your Firefox settings directory with the one you download from here. Note that you’ll need to rename the file you download from here. If you’re not sure where rikaichan-words.jar is on your computer, just search the files on your computer for one called rikaichan-words.jar. On mine its full path was ~/.mozilla/firefox/a53yayd2.Default User/extensions/{6D898772-AD34-4c16-86BB-9DE787A5DEA0}/chrome/rikaichan-words.jar; on yours it will probably be somewhere else.
2. Restart Firefox.
3. Enjoy furigana without glosses! ＾＿＾
Note that if you want to update the dictionary file yourself, you can use the more detailed instructions I posted this on Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese Grammar Forum.
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October 28th, 2008 at 15:02
What does it mean when it say failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute when I try to download this?
October 29th, 2008 at 03:11
@D
I’m afraid I haven’t run into that problem at all. If you or anyone else who has seen that error can describe the steps to reproduce it, I’ll fix it as soon as possible.
November 14th, 2008 at 22:45
Why the hell is every comment I try to write “a bit spammy”.
November 15th, 2008 at 07:52
@a bit spammy
For some reason, the spam filter didn’t like what you were writing. Unfortunately I can’t see what you tried to post, but feel free to mail me directly at njlaw [at] japanesemyway [dot] com.
November 22nd, 2008 at 00:35
I’ve sent you an email 5 days ago but you didn’t reply … did it also get blocked as spam?
will this comment go trough…
November 22nd, 2008 at 06:08
@a bit spammy
However, since it was an e-mail I managed to find it in my spam box. I’ll post your comment below.
Unfortunately, it did get caught as spam.
November 22nd, 2008 at 06:09
I don’t know man. Taking English out of reading experience is very beneficial, sure. With rikaichan being so easy to use, it seems almost like the perfect solution for reading text.
However, what’s the point of using rikaichan with EDICT but without glosses? To get reading and grammar information? I don’t know… I can get the same info with furigana injector or hiragana.jp but a lot quicker. The grammar info isn’t all that useful either.
A lot more interesting would be a pop-up dictionary like rikaichan only monolingual. Like based on Epwing dicts or online lookups from dict.yahoo.co.jp or something”
erm why not just ban spammers… or add a captcha
November 28th, 2008 at 08:00
I tried searching for a file called rikaichan-words.jar on my computer(vista) and it doesn’t even have it. Any suggestions?
December 19th, 2008 at 00:14
Keep adding new articles to the blog!
Also, something that might be of interest and is related to your article :3
http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1179427562/
October 7th, 2009 at 21:20
I just downloaded the Japanese-Russian dictionary. I don’t know a word of it so this works just a well!
October 7th, 2009 at 21:21
Damn, nevermind. Still has tons of English glosses.
April 23rd, 2010 at 04:17
In Google Chrome’s rikaikun (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jipdnfibhldikgcjhfnomkfpcebammhp) you can use the same dictionary files.
You need to extract them first and copy dict.dat and dict.idx to ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/jipdnfibhldikgcjhfnomkfpcebammhp/0.8/data
November 9th, 2010 at 07:27
” If you or anyone else who has seen that error can describe the steps to reproduce it, I’ll fix it as soon as possible.”
You can see more about that?
November 13th, 2010 at 14:40
As of Rikaichan 2.00, you can use the ‘D’ key to hide the definitions in the non-Japanese language!