10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp) chrome extension

What is 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)?

10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp) is a dark mode extension for chrome. also, it is docs extension. it's a free extension and is featured in Productivity, it has 9,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.88 from 33 rated user, last update is 510 days ago.

What’s new in version 1.13.5?

                Quickly look up Japanese words on any text page by activating the add-on from the toolbar (you may need to use the Extensions menu to pin the icon to the toolbar) or pressing Alt+R.

Features:
• Pitch accent information
• Dictionaries that update automatically twice a week
• Recognition of a wide range of grammatical forms and characters (e.g. 食べてた,  分からん, 知らん, じーちゃん, 頑張ろー, そーゆー, ぬ verbs, とく・どく forms, causative passive, vs-c verbs like 兼した, and characters like ㋕, ㌀, ㋿, ?沢, and many more)
• Translation of Japanese numbers into Arabic numerals (e.g. 13億5千万 into 1,350,000,000)
• Translation of yen amounts (e.g. 100億円, 8万8千円) into a local currency
• Translation of Japanese-era years into Gregorian years (e.g. 昭和５６年, 平成三十一年)
• Translation between 畳/帖 measurements and square meters (e.g. 四畳半、12.6 帖、25 平米 etc.)
• Translation of shogi moves (e.g. ☗８三銀引成)
• Support for the widest range of Web content (Google docs, YouTube subtitles, vertical text, SVG images, hidden text etc.)
• Support for non-English dictionaries (unfortunately no Japanese-Japanese dictionary is freely available yet)
• Up-to-date kanji data including educational and kanji kentei levels, reworked kanji components etc.
• Many settings to customize to your needs
• Localization into Simplified Chinese and Japanese
• Automatic preview of name entries when there is a better match in the name dictionary

Version 1.13.5 includes
• Added support for parsing ざるを得ない endings, e.g. 闘わざるをえなかった.
• Added support for parsing ～ないで, e.g. 払わないですんだ.
• Added an option for higher contrast pitch accent markings.
• Fixed the browser icon getting stuck at 100%.
• Made the popup show for sites that make nested contents fullscreen such as Crunchyroll.
• Made the touchscreen puck trigger showing text boxes on mokuro that normally only show on hover.
• Fixed lookup of Japanese inside display: contents containers.
• Fixed lookup of Japanese with certain combinations of display: inline-block such as is used on Kanshudo.
• Made the copy overlay not show if the user has selected text in the popup.
• Made shogi shorthand matches not show up when there is a longer word match.
• Added inflection for できる so that 連絡できなかった is parsed as a single unit.
• Updated explanation text for passive deinflections to indicate that they may simply be sonkeigo.

Version 1.12.４ includes
• Made it possible to interact with the popup by using the mouse. For example, you can change tabs or copy entries by clicking.
  ◦ Note that this makes the popup tabs larger and may sometimes mean the popup does not dismiss as quickly. This behavior can be disabled from the options page under "Popup interactivity".
• Made the popup not move position when changing tabs via touch or mouse.
• Added a shortcut key for closing the popup (defaults to Esc).
• Added a shortcut key for pinning the popup (defaults to Ctrl).
• Added a setting to make highlight styles blue.
• Fixed a bug where highlights might not be cleared.
• Disabled using the Highlight API on for vertical text due to Chromium bug 1360724.

Version 1.11.0 includes
• Made katakana headwords be shown when matching on katakana.
• Made non-matching kanji headwords be hidden when matching on kana.
• Added handling for search-only dictionary headwords.
• Made it possible to copy name preview entries to the clipboard.
• Fixed display of currency conversion etc. when there are only name results.
• Fixed handling of kanji records with multiple cross references.
• Made the label for rarely-used kanji shorter.

Version 1.10.0 includes
• Updated data download service to improve initial download performance and provide more useful download progress.

Version 1.9.0 includes
• Made the popup display in full-screen mode so you can look up text in subtitles on full-screen videos.
• Added recognition for decimals numbers with kanji bases (e.g. 25.1万円).
• Made the popup not automatically show for text elements with title/alt attributes when a key is required to show the popup.
• Fixed an issue where other extensions could cause the popup to be mispositioned.

Version 1.8.4 includes
• Fixed looking up vertical text using pdf.js.
• Fixed use of the puck on Bibi reader.
• Fixed a regression in highlighting of non-BMP characters e.g. ?沢.
• Made sure the popup always appears on top, even for sites like TimeTree that use the maximum z-index for their popups.
• Fixed a bug where the copy status message would re-appear after switching tabs.

Version 1.7.1 includes
• Fixed display of the radical meaning in kanji view

Version 1.7.0 includes
• Parsing for shogi moves (e.g. ☗８三銀引成)
• Improved text look up in Google docs when the document is scaled
• Fixed positioning of the puck (touch screen devices) when using pinch zoom
• More common kana readings are displayed when looking up an entry by an irregular kana reading (e.g. showing ふんいき when looking up ふいんき)
• Irregular kana readings are dimmed when looking up by kanji (e.g. ふいんき is dimmed when looking up 雰囲気)
• Irregular kanji headwords be dimmed when looking up by kana (e.g. お母 is dimmed when looking up おふくろ)
• Name preview no longer shows the age for name entries when only a year is given, or when the name is not for a person
• Stopped the add-on from interfering with generic XML documents
• Stopped producing source maps which would result in an error being displayed in the developer console

Version 1.6.1 includes
• Fixes looking up text in text boxes when the document is scrolled

Version 1.6.0 includes
• Support for copying entries from touch devices by tapping the entry
• Copying to the clipboard works for HTTP sites
• Support for looking up words on touch screens by tapping the word

Version 1.5.0 includes
• Support for Google Docs annotated canvas
• Refines senses based on what you're looking up
• Shows the age next to names
• Lots of minor fixes (tm formatting, number lookup, etc.)

Version 1.4.8 includes
• Fixes to popup display for iframes (such as on the Bibi EPUB reader) and standalone SVG graphics

Version 1.4.3 includes
• Expands numbers that include kanji characters and aren't in the dictionary (e.g. 9万8800, 365億)
• Adds an option to disable currency conversion
• Fixes a bug where popups were not scrollable when no tabs are shown
• Forces Google Docs to use HTML mode. This can be disabled from settings.
• Ignores zero-width non-joiner characters (as sometimes used by Google Docs)

Version 1.4.1 includes
• Conversion of currency amounts (e.g. 8万8千円, 100億円)
• A "puck" for looking up words on touch screens

Version 1.3.5 includes
• Overhauled popup positioning to better correspond with old behavior
• Reworked iframe message passing to prevent interfering with pages like Azure portal

Version 1.3.3 includes
• Improved lookup performance
• Popup is now shown again for images with Japanese alt/title text but there is an option to turn it off
• Added recognition for counters that start with half-width numerals (e.g. 1 つ, 14 日)
• Reworked popup positioning

Version 1.2.3 includes
• Made the lookup better reflect the cursor position
• Fixed a regression in the highlighting of text when only content that is not a  dictionary entry matches

Version 1.2.2 includes
• Made popups for iframes be shown in the topmost window
• Fixed flickering on links that use transitions
• Fixed a regression when looking up the first character in a text box

Version 1.2.1 includes
• Better handling of text in text boxes (form fields etc.)

Version 1.2.0 includes
• Option to display tabs on the sides or hide them altogether
• Option to change the toolbar icon to a 天 character instead
• Made katakana name matches show up in the name preview

Version 1.1.3 includes
• New name: 10ten Japanese Reader
• New default theme (switches between light/dark based on system dark-mode setting)
• Tabs for showing different dictionary results and made them interactive on touch screen devices
• Automatic translation of 畳/帖 and square measurements such as 四畳半, 6.5 帖, 10㎡, or 十二平米
• Option to show only kanji entries by holding Shift.
• Shortcut key to toggle the extension on and off is no longer be synchronized so that the full range of modified keys can be used and so that extensions keys configured via the browser UI interoperate with the extension UI better
• Popup shows up less eagerly when the hold-to-show key(s) is/are pressed and a text box is focused since it can interfere with copying and pasting.
• Optimized searching for variants of 長音 (ー) and 旧字体 to perform fewer lookups while considering all 長音 variations for name entries
• Additional key that can be configured to switch dictionaries, n, since Shift can be unavailable when Firefox's resist fingerprinting mode is enabled
• Notification that incomplete results are shown when the dictionary data is being updated
• Hint indicating the keys that can be used to switch dictionaries

Version 0.5.7 includes
• Recognition of covered-up text as used on asahi.com and nikkei.com
• Fixes to handling of text in text boxes (previously the first character could not be recognized)

Version 0.5.10 includes
• Performance improvements when looking up words            

How to install 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)

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Reviews of 10ten japanese reader (rikaichamp):

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Andy Benson February 5th, 2023

Perfect for my needs. Tried yomichan and in comparison this is a lot easier to get going and easier on the eyes imo, no need to install dictionaries and therefore feels a lot less bloaty - this just works right out of the box. Fantastic work. Thank you.

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Jonathan McIntyre November 11th, 2022

In its current state this extension is incredible. Easily chipping away at a complicated syllabary that takes a significant personal effort to even begin to recognize the most important characters, right there at the tip of your mouse cursor. A wealth of information is presented an easy to read format that helps you reinforce all of the intricacies of the language, as you begin to learn them and recognize the patterns. Toggling on the additional Romaji text really helps to speed up the rate at which you can memorize individual symbols, by having a reminder always ready at a flash. 理解チャンプ、「最高」！

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Aris Koutris October 28th, 2022

This extension is literally flawless. It does translation, and it does it the best way possible. A lot of information is shown but the results are presented in a structured manner that is easy to understand. It is responsive and the UI is intuitive and highly customizable. Oh, and now mouse support is added. I literally cannot think of any way this extension could be better. Thanks!

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