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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