Kanji to hiragana
 

Hi

I've found some months ago a website where you could input text written in kanji and you got the text written completly in hiragana/katakana. I don't remeber the name of the site nor how I've found it :mad:

Since I'm a beginner I only am able to read/write hiragana and katakana, I know myself a few kanjis (but we didn't start with them in my course yet) but it is sometimes very difficult for me to read things that use kanji very much, since I only know a few couple of kanjis.

I bet you know the animelyrics.com page, lot's of lyrics are also in kanji and I try to read the lyrics while listening the music but sometimes it is pretty hard when you find only hiragana for particles.

Does anybody know the kanji -> hiragana converting page I mean? Or does anybody knows a site out there that can do that?

Thanks

are you thinking of http://www.hiragana.jp/ ?

Try this solution. Use the internet browser "Mozilla" (I think it is also called firefox, but I might be wrong). After that download the add-on for that browser called Raichan. When you run that add-on a box will appear next any kanji you will place the pointer on. In that box you will find reading and meaning of the kanji.

thank you, this look good. I've been searching after I've created the thread here and I've also found kanji romaji hiragana convert

@chryuop: also thanks, but I'm not going to change my web browser just for a plugin.

This one is actually worth it.

What web browser do you currently use? I'm guessing Internet Explorer which does suck. Switch to firefox, it's faster, cleaner, and a much better web browser overall.. Oh yeah and it has that plugin, and plenty more for japanese learners ;-)

ouch, that hurt, bad guess. I haven't been using Windows for the last 8 years ;) I'm an opera user who has a "firefox allergy", I've tested almost all versions (my first one was Phoenix 1.3) and I never liked it (and I won't never do).

hmm, perhaps I'll test this plugin.

Anyway, thank you for all answers.

I see, sorry for stereotyping, it's just that most people who say things like "I'm not switching browsers for xxxxxx" are usually pretty uneducated on a subject such as internet browsers and use IE. I myself haven't used windows in years either. I don't really like Firefox's interface and only use it for reading japanese because of that plugin. Opera is nice, but I prefer safari..

I use Mozilla but I seem not understand how to download the raichan..please explain.thanks.

it's fine. I've found it funny that *I* got to read this. Usually I am the one who tell people to stop using IE.

yes, now that I read my post again I seems that way. But I had a lot of discussions with hyped-users that are always missioning firefox thus I react a little bit alergic when someone tells me, I should use Firefox.

All you have to do is follow this link: rikaichan | polarcloud.com

Scroll down and you will see 2 blue boxes and one grey box labeled 1, 2 and 3.

Download the main v1.05 extension first
Then download the dictionary you want it to use
and the last grey box is optional for a names dictionary.