This is a third-party script/app and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely.
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on’yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you’ll know how to read this as well.
“No, actually, I don’t”
Features
This userscript modifies the reading and meaning sections during reviews and lessons to include the mnemonics (and hints) from the kanji that make up the word. The script does its best to detect when a word can be broken up into the learned readings, sometimes this won’t work, tell me when they don’t, and I’ll try to fix them.
Just install the userscript and from then on, every time a word is cleanly split into it’s kanji readings, the script will do its magic and include the mnemonics.
If you find a word that’s broken, the userscript is not working or it’s incompatible with another one, or you just want to request a feature, feel free to leave a reply. Please include screenshots for bug reports, it speeds up the fixing process around 10x.
wordChar is “だ” which is not in frontRendakuTransforms.
I have also noticed that sometimes your info is not added when I’m opening the item info – in these cases I have to close and reopen it. Maybe there is a race condition? I only took a glance at your code and noticed a setTimeout(handleNewItem, 200) – but maybe that’s unrelated to the problem.
It might be nice if your info is also added after a meaning question when the user completely expands the item info to also view the reading info.
More generally, I think it would be useful if your info would also be available during lessons, extra studies, and on the item pages.
And now some shameless self promotion
Since writing code for injecting additional item info into WK can become annoying, I have written the library script “WK Item Info Injector”. You could use it to get notified when a new reading info section was created[1] and insert your DOM elements yourself, or you could let WK Item Info Injector handle the insertion[2].
Decided to just completely rewrite this script, so first of all I’m now using @Sinyaven’s item info injector (thanks). This has 2 major effects. One, the script itself is much more reliable, since the previous method was kind of a patchwork of bad code and hopes and prayers. Secondly, I can be way lazier, which is always a big plus.
So, rewrite and stuff. The script is now not “Reading Breakdown” rather “Vocab Breakdown”. This is because instead of just showing the matching readings, it also shows up on the meanings panel. The whole look was also somewhat revamped, now it looks like this:
This should make it fit the wanikani aesthetic much better than the old design.
Readings only show up if their primary, taught readings are the one showing up in the vocab. The script tries to extract this from the mnemonic (since sometimes this is mentioned), but falls back to the first defined primary reading (yes, I’m really proud of this feature, thanks for noticing). For example in the above picture, す doesn’t show up, even though it’s marked as a primary reading, since the mnemonic actually teaches そ. Rendaku and breakdown detection was also greatly simplified and should be much less prone to errors.
Small update, entirely forgot that small tsu is a thing that exists, so now that should be handled under the umbrella term of rendaku as well. Also now, if the reading breakdown section would be empty, it just gets omitted
And another small fix, I made a mistake and that caused words such as 役割, where a kanji has two readings, one contained in the other (in this case わ and わり were both readings of 割), to accidentally prioritize the shorter reading of the two
Do you have an example of when this would be helpful? Currently a kanji is only shown in that section, if the taught reading itself is used in the word. I don’t quite see the point of also including the rest of the readings in that section.
I just installed this script and I think people like you, providing the community with such neat features are truly undercover heroes. Thank you very much! <3
This is a third-party script/app and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely.
