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Rikaichan

March 23rd, 2008 | Category: News, Random | By: ume

While lurking in several corners of the internet over the past week, I came across this handy plugin for Firefox (and Thunderbird), Rikaichan . While popup browser dictionary/translators are nothing new, I was attracted to Rikaichan’s neat popup layout :-


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(Put to the test with Eretto-san’s blog)

Now, this is really helpful, especially when I need to figure out how to read kanji (It also makes lyrics romanization a whole lot faster :3)

Also wonderful is its ability to look for meanings of phrases, as opposed to single-character translation. Oh, and in addition to Japanese it supports Russian and German too, but I don’t have much use for those at the moment ^^;

(And we’re another step closer to reading moonspeak! lol.)

For more detailed features (and of course, downloads), visit their site

And I conclude this little random post.

3 comments

3 Comments so far

  1. Jiyuu March 23rd, 2008 7:27 pm

    thanks.. seems pretty useful

  2. bj0rN March 24th, 2008 4:11 pm

    Actually on top of that, you can use the toolbar function to type in japanse to search for words or phrases that you don’t understand. Very useful tool for translation too.

  3. Stifler March 28th, 2008 10:07 am

    Wow, this seems pretty good. It certainly can come in handy.

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