It appears this was suggested as early as 2014. The context sentences, and sometimes the common word combinations, sometimes contain readings I’m not familiar with, or even kanji that I haven’t studied yet. I’d really like to be able to toggle furigana on these to ensure that I learn proper readings without having to plug them into jisho.org or something.
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+1, I second that!
However you can already do this today by using a browser extension.
I use Furiganize on Zen (Firefox-based), but there’s others for both Firefox and Chromium browsers.
Note that while they’re mostly correct, they may sometimes generate inaccurate readings, so keep an eye out for that.
Still a proper built-in option would be great, particularly if the vocab hasn’t been studied before and/or doesn’t even exist on WK. I found many of these, which are used in Context Sentences but aren’t on WK, and have somewhat non-intuitive readings e.g. onyomi + kunyomi for a jukugo word, or an exceptional reading.
An alternative to @skaldebane is Yomitan chrome/firefox/edge extension which will not only give you the furigana but the definition as well. Just hold down the shift key and point your cursor to what you want.
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This really should be added. While there are extensions that can do that, the reading can end up wrong and it sure would be nice if a platform for learning the readings of kanji provided the correct reading so a learner doesn’t have to worry about that happening.
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right, like… that’s why i’m here lol
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this is still bothering me constantly, especially in the common word combinations where I can never be sure where rendaku applies. some example sentences will have almost as many kanji I’ve never seen as ones I’ve studied. if a free userscript can use the API token to only display readings for kanji I haven’t studied on the NHK website, a third party website, why hasn’t this been implemented here? yomitan is helpful, but it’s a joke that a paid service for learning to read kanji doesn’t cover this stuff. I already bought the lifetime membership, but if I hadn’t, I’d be carefully considering whether to renew, or just use anki and study the kyouiku and joyo kanji lists.
Hello,
Just to say that I agree with this request.
It could be really great to be able to toggle show/hide furiganas (hidden by default indeed) on all context examples.
On bunpro it’s available with a shortcut (ctrl+shift+f) and I find that very convenient - no need to use extension.
So, yes.. is it too difficult to implement that ?
I agree that something needs to be done. As a beginner, I always just skip over those context examples because they feel too advanced. They aren’t properly scaffolded into the learning curve.
Something else that would be extremely helpful is having a native speaker read those context sentences. Otherwise, even with the furigana, I’m never sure if I’m saying it like a native speaker would. If there actually was audio, I’d make a point of studying those context sentences and I feel I’d make much more progress.
Ah ? I think the context examples are particularly well done here . I’m almost always able to read them. Almost because yes, you right, sometimes there are some words which are used I did not learn yet - but I encountered this issue a very few times, so it did not bother me too much.
But stills, sometimes I just want to quickly check if I’m not mistaken pronunciation so…could be very very great to display furiganas with a keyboard shortcut…