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Adds or removes Japanese furigana in cards via editor buttons, bulk generation, bracket or ruby notation, using MeCab for readings across platforms.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
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| 2.1.0 | 25.09.4+ | 2026-07-13 |
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| Version | Works on Anki 26.09.3 | Maintenance | Last activity | Votes | Approval | GitHub stars | Notes |
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| 🇯🇵 JapaneseFurigana this addon original | likely | active | 13 Jul 2026 | 👍 121 · 👎 5 | 91% | 33 | |
| ↳ Japanese Furigana+ (AI-detected; may be wrong) | likely | stale | 17 Nov 2025 | 👍 4 · 👎 0 | 51% | – | |
| ↳ Japanese Furigana (JoMako) (AI-detected; may be wrong) | supported | active | 24 Oct 2026 | 👍 0 · 👎 0 | – | 0 |
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Assigns minimal furigana readings to individual kanji instead of whole morphemes, with configurable behavior and a dedicated settings submenu under Tools.
Automatically generates and bulk-generates furigana readings and looks up Japanese pitch accents, adding them to configured Anki note fields.
Adds or removes furigana on Japanese card content using editor toolbar buttons, with MeCab/Kakasi-generated readings and configurable output patterns and number reading support.
Automatically generates furigana readings and pitch accent information for entire fields with one click or bulk conversion, supporting its own syntax plus Migaku-compatible syntax.
Generates furigana readings for Japanese text, provides Japanese note types, kanji statistics, and dictionary lookup, with customizable furigana display in card templates.
Adds furigana to selected Japanese vocabulary or sentences on demand via a toolbar button or hotkey, converting kanji into bracketed kana using jisho.org.
Une langue s'apprend dans le système d'écriture qui lui est propre -- Julien Fontanier
JapaneseFurigana is an Anki 2.1 add-on providing support for adding or removing furigana on Japanese content in cards. It supports ruby tags, bracket notation, bulk card generation and is intended to work cross-platforms, either on Windows, MacOS or Linux. Apple Silicon (M1, M2...) has an experimental support.
JapaneseFurigana adds two buttons in the card editor toolbar that detects kanjis and generates or removes their respective furigana readings. This tool is provided to the world free of charge, but I would appreciate if you could drop a 👍 as a token of gratitude 😊
This plugin will generate furigana using the recommended bracket notation by default, but also offers compatibility with ruby tags generated by other tools such as ClozeFuriganaTools. I will try my best to offer a backward compatibility with older versions of Anki but I do not guarantee it. Japanese readings are generated by MeCab.
How to render the furigana enter in a textfield ?
Use {{furigana:MyField}} in the template, you can find more information here here.
Can I only show the furigana on hover
Just add this CSS to your cards: ruby rt { visibility: hidden; } ruby:hover rt { visibility: visible; }
Une langue s'apprend dans le système d'écriture qui lui est propre -- Julien Fontanier
JapaneseFurigana is an Anki 2.1 add-on providing support for adding or removing furigana on Japanese content in cards. It is intended to work cross-platforms, either on Windows, MacOS or Linux.
JapaneseFurigana adds two buttons in the card editor toolbar that detects kanjis and generates or removes their respective furigana readings.
[!TIP]
- Add furigana reading with ⌘R or Ctrl+R
- Remove furigana reading with ⌥⌘R or Ctrl+Alt+R
If text is selected inside a field, furigana is generated or removed only for the selection; otherwise the whole field is processed. When regenerating readings on already-annotated text, select whole words (a selection covering only part of an annotated word, such as the kanji without its bracket reading, leaves the old reading outside the selection untouched).
This plugin will generate furigana using the recommended bracket notation by default, but also offers compatibility with ruby tags generated by other tools such as ClozeFuriganaTools.
I will try my best to offer a backward compatibility with older versions of Anki but I do not guarantee it. Anki moves pretty fast and we need to follow.
I try to include unit tests as much as possible, you can run them with python -m unittest.
Once installed on your system, the extension is located in
~/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/ on MacOS~/.local/share/Anki2/addons21/ on Linux%APPDATA%\Anki2\addons21\ on WindowsThere is already plently of plugins available for Japanese, but most of them are incompatible with the lastest versions of Anki or do not work on MacOS.
JapaneseFurigana was originally inspired by ClozeFuriganaTools and Simple Furigana but has since been refactored to simplify and debloat it and does not include code from these two projects anymore.