Simple Furigana

Simple Furigana is an Anki 2.1 add-on providing support for adding or removing furigana on Japanese content in cards.

This plugin is inspired by ClozeFuriganaTools. Some large portions of code have been reused from ClozeFuriganaTools.

Japanese readings are generated by MeCab and Kakasi

Simple Furigana is released under GPLv3. See LICENSE for details.

Download

Simple Furigana is available for download on the AnkiWeb portal.

Usage

Simple Furigana adds two buttons in the card editor toolbar Generate readings and Delete readings

Select the field where you want to add furigana and click Generate readings.

When only a portion of text is selected in the field, furigana are only generated for or removed from that selected text portion.

Settings

Click on Simple Furigana settings in the Tools menu to open the settings window.

Add readings for numbers (default false)

Add reading for the kanjis 一二三四五六七八九十.

⚠️ Note that mecab does not handle very well the irregular reading like 二人(ふたり) or 一回(いっかい) and may produce incorrect readings.

Readings pattern (default HTML ruby tags)

Select the pattern to apply when the readings are added to a field.

• HTML ruby tags

  車 => <ruby><rb>車</rb><rt>くるま</rt></ruby>

• Square brackets

  車 => 車[くるま]