Streamlined Japanese Pitch Accent

AnkiWeb addon 678172946

Automatically adds pitch accent information to a chosen field on Japanese vocabulary cards by highlighting the accented mora, marking flat words, and parsing bracket furigana or a reading field.
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Updated: 2026-08-13
Anki versions: 26.08~
License: AGPL-3.0 (from the GitHub repository)
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Languages: Python, JSON
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Repository: arjunsatarkar/streamlined_japanese_pitch_accent_anki · more by arjunsatarkar
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Last commit: 2026-08-13
License: AGPL-3.0
Languages: Python, Just
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Description

A better add-on to automatically add pitch accent information to a chosen field in Japanese vocabulary cards.

There are several of these already at time of creation, but they have some problems:

Overly complicated/busy pitch display. For Standard Japanese pitch accent, there is no need for a pitch graph. You only need to see the accented mora, or that there are none if the word is 平板型 (flat).
Use of questionable data (eg. Wadoku). At time of writing, many common words including 赤い have the wrong pitch pattern in this database.
Inability to parse Anki's built in square bracket based furigana notation (some note types don't have the reading in a separate field).

We address these as follows:

This add-on simply highlights the accented mora, eg. the accent of 柊 displays as ひいらぎ (nb: there is also an underline which doesn't show up on AnkiWeb). Flat words display with a flat overline so you don't have to hunt for an accented mora if there aren't any.
The AnkiWeb version of this add-on currently uses the Kanjium accent data. This data also has some problems, such as ambiguity in what accent data with commas represents, but we have responded by not including any ambiguous cases. As far as we know, the data which is unambiguously parseable is generally correct and the best available. Please open a GitHub issue if you can suggest better or supplementary accent data!
This add-on can parse square bracket furigana notation or get the reading from a separate field.

This add-on is open source; see the GitHub repository for the license and other information.

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Streamlined Japanese Pitch Accent Add-On for Anki

A better Anki add-on to automatically add pitch accent information to a chosen field in Japanese vocabulary cards.

There are several of these already at time of creation, but they have some problems:

Overly complicated/busy pitch display. For Standard Japanese pitch accent, there is no need for a pitch graph. You only need to see the accented mora, or that there are none if the word is 平板型 (flat).
Use of questionable data (eg. Wadoku). At time of writing, many common words including 赤い have the wrong pitch pattern in this database.
Inability to parse Anki's built in square bracket based furigana notation (some note types don't have the reading in a separate field).

We address these as follows:

This add-on simply highlights the accented mora, eg. the accent of 柊 displays as ひいらぎ. Flat words display with a flat overline so you don't have to hunt for an accented mora if there aren't any.
The AnkiWeb version of this add-on currently uses the Kanjium accent data. This data also has some problems, such as ambiguity in what accent data with commas represents, but we have responded by not including any ambiguous cases. As far as we know, the data which is unambiguously parseable is generally correct and the best available. Open an issue if you can suggest better or supplementary accent data!
This add-on can parse square bracket furigana notation or get the reading from a separate field.

Install

See https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/678172946.

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Streamlined Japanese Pitch Accent

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

See LICENSE.txt in the repository root for the text of the license.

Acknowledgements

Although we have not included any code from previous add-ons, we have benefited from the concept of and inspiration from IllDepence/anki_add_pitch_plugin.