Kanji Popup Dictionary

AnkiWeb addon 1103781053

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Shows popup kanji entries from an RTK deck for highlighted text or the current card's first field via hotkey, supports keyword lookup, and finds other words containing the same kanji.
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Votes
10 (πŸ‘ 10 Β· πŸ‘Ž 0)
Updated
2024-10-13
Anki versions
24.04.1~
License
AGPL-3.0 (from the headers of the Python files)
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Languages
Python, JavaScript, CSS, JSON
Description language
en

Maintenance

active

  • Last update or commit: 2026-05-15 (170 days before the snapshot).
  • Commits in the last year: 1.
  • Issues: 1 open, 0 closed.
  • Pull requests: 0 open, 0 merged.

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VersionWorks on Anki 26.09.3MaintenanceLast activity VotesApprovalGitHub starsNotes
Pop-up Dictionary (beta) original unsupported abandoned 27 Jan 2024 πŸ‘ 181 Β· πŸ‘Ž 62 69% 83 beta
↳ Kanji Popup Dictionary this addon (AI-detected; may be wrong) likely active 15 May 2026 πŸ‘ 10 Β· πŸ‘Ž 0 72% 15

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2 votes 34% approval πŸ‘ 2 Β· πŸ‘Ž 0 Anki 25.09~ Updated 2026-05-19

Description

This is a fork of Glutanimate's popup dictionary which allows you to use a RTK deck like this one with a word deck, showing the kanji entries from the RTK deck for each kanji in the highlighted selection, or if the key combination defined in the addon settings (default is CTRL+Shift+D) is pressed with no highlight, it will attempt to use the first field of the current card (this makes it usable with e.g. controller addons). You can also locate kanjis by keyword (useful to e.g. find the kanji corresponding to a certain keyword in the mnemonic of a different kanji). There's also a blue arrow next to each kanji entry to find all words with the same kanji in the current deck (I use this when I study new words to match readings). Finally, the addon can be used in the browser previews as well. All the relevant settings, like the RTK deck name and the field names for keywords and kanjis can be found in settings.

Update 10/13:

  • Fix occasional crashes when double-clicking
  • Verified to work up to (at least) 24.06.3

README

Misc Japanese learning stuff

This is stuff I've hacked up together/updated/worked on in some way to assist with learning Japanese using publicly available code. Anki plugins are in the Anki folder, and there are a few AppleScripts in the respective folder as well. I'm not offering support for any of this but they might come in handy to someone.

  • rtk_popup_dictionary: A fork of https://github.com/glutanimate/popup-dictionary by Glutanimate which can show a popup of all the Kanji in a given selection or in the first field of the card if the keyboard combo is used taking information from another deck. More information on AnkiWeb https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1103781053
  • editor_no_autoplay: Avoids the card editor playing back audio files when they're pasted for more than a couple seconds. Code taken and updated from here https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/option-controlling-autoplay-of-audio-dropped-into-card-editing-window/3863/6
  • browser_refresh: A fork of https://github.com/glutanimate/anki-addons-misc/tree/master/src/browser_refresh by Glutanimate which adds a shortcut (CMD + R) to refresh the card list in the editor.
  • recordVN.scpt: AppleScript to be used to record audio from a VN using ffmpeg, it then adds the recording to the last created Anki card and refreshes the card editor. It can be used as explained here https://game2text.com/resources/macos/audio-to-clipboard/ or bound to a trackpad gesture with e.g. Multitouch or BetterTouchTool but just uses ffmpeg in the background. ffmpeg has to be installed (with e.g. homebrew and the path has to be changed if using an Intel mac). For the script to work Anki Connect has to be installed in Anki.
  • screenshotVN.scpt: AppleScript based on code from here https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5641587?answerId=30931554022#30931554022 that takes a screenshot with specific coordinates and optionally resizes it, then adds the screenshot to the last created Anki card and refreshes the card editor. It can be used as explained here https://game2text.com/resources/macos/audio-to-clipboard/ or bound to a trackpad gesture with e.g. Multitouch or BetterTouchTool. python3 has to be installed (with e.g. homebrew and the path has to be changed if using an Intel mac) and pyobjc has to be installed with pip. For the script to work Anki Connect has to be installed in Anki.
  • screenshotOCRSender.scpt: AppleScript that just uses the macOS screenshot clipping tool and writes the screenshot to a Unix domain socket (to be used with https://github.com/AuroraWright/owocr )