{"slug": "yomitan", "name": "Yomitan", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 3.076, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2025-12-16", "latest": "2026-10-18", "why": "I used OCR on manga pages and then Yomitan to hover over and see word definitions", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I used OCR on manga pages and then Yomitan to hover over and see word definitions", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "yomitan.wiki", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://yomitan.wiki", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Yomitan"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 802238192, "item_id": 50139887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139887", "by": "Zarel", "date": "2026-10-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'd really recommend something like Yomitan here", "excerpt": "For language learning, I'd really recommend something like Yomitan here: https://yomitan.wiki/ Yomitan only shows readings for words you explicitly hover over and press a modifier key, so it doesn't distract you, and when you do explicitly ask for a word, Yomitan will show all the readings and definitions. I'd agree that 80% is better than nothing if you have no alternatives, but you do. I don't know about Furiganato", "context": "", "use_case": "Japanese reading lookup", "switched_from": "", "story": "Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana"}, {"id": 740769504, "item_id": 46298094, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46298094", "by": "quamserena", "date": "2025-12-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used OCR on manga pages and then Yomitan to hover over and see word definitions", "excerpt": "I can second this, after finishing my intro Japanese classes I was able to parse the grammar of most sentences. Memorizing vocab was the hard part, so I used OCR on manga pages and then Yomitan to hover over and see word definitions (in English).", "context": "", "use_case": "Hover dictionary for Japanese text", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing"}, {"id": 740765600, "item_id": 46297850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297850", "by": "LandenLove", "date": "2025-12-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Something similar to https://yomitan.wiki/", "excerpt": "The concept of \"injecting\" Japanese into text written in a different language is interesting. But I feel the presentation of word definitions are not great. Something similar to https://yomitan.wiki/ or https://jisho.org/search/kotoba would be preferred. E.g. \u8a00\u8449\u30fc\u3053\u3068\u3070\u30fcLanguage, word or phrase\u30fcKanji definitions\u30fcSample sentence", "context": "", "use_case": "Japanese dictionary browser extension", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["japanese reading lookup", "japanese dictionary lookup", "dictionary lookup", "looking up words in definitions", "hover dictionary for japanese text", "japanese dictionary browser extension"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46296863", "title": "Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100994", "title": "Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095865", "title": "KOReader", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479362", "title": "VNDB founder Yorhel has died", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415819", "title": "Show HN: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 3}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"compare": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "quotes": [{"id": 802238192, "item_id": 50139887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50139887", "by": "Zarel", "date": "2026-10-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'd really recommend something like Yomitan here", "excerpt": "For language learning, I'd really recommend something like Yomitan here: https://yomitan.wiki/ Yomitan only shows readings for words you explicitly hover over and press a modifier key, so it doesn't distract you, and when you do explicitly ask for a word, Yomitan will show all the readings and definitions. I'd agree that 80% is better than nothing if you have no alternatives, but you do. I don't know about Furiganato", "context": "", "use_case": "Japanese reading lookup", "switched_from": "", "story": "Furifont, a Japanese font that shows furigana"}, {"id": 785659312, "item_id": 49103707, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103707", "by": "Frenziefrenz", "date": "2026-07-29", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "", "excerpt": "There's a fork for vertical text: https://github.com/m-tky/koreader-tategumi", "context": "", "use_case": "Japanese dictionary lookup", "switched_from": "", "story": "KOReader"}, {"id": 760282576, "item_id": 47517661, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517661", "by": "wahnfrieden", "date": "2026-03-25", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "a Yomitan dictionary (by bee) of VNDB using those dumps", "excerpt": "There's a Yomitan dictionary (by bee) of VNDB using those dumps: https://github.com/bee-san/VNDB-Character-Names-by-Bee", "context": "", "use_case": "Dictionary lookup", "switched_from": "", "story": "VNDB founder Yorhel has died"}, {"id": 742667888, "item_id": 46416743, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46416743", "by": "wahnfrieden", "date": "2025-12-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Yes I've also just started adding sub-word lookups for ranges inside of the headword and for words appearing in the definitions. I hope to launch that together with Yomitan dictionary support. There is a lot packed into this next update... Here is a look at the new learning status screen, too: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1209908367821373500/1437155956692746422/simulator_screenshot_D994EE68-1E22-444E-BDB6", "context": "", "use_case": "Looking up words in definitions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award"}, {"id": 740769504, "item_id": 46298094, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46298094", "by": "quamserena", "date": "2025-12-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used OCR on manga pages and then Yomitan to hover over and see word definitions", "excerpt": "I can second this, after finishing my intro Japanese classes I was able to parse the grammar of most sentences. Memorizing vocab was the hard part, so I used OCR on manga pages and then Yomitan to hover over and see word definitions (in English).", "context": "", "use_case": "Hover dictionary for Japanese text", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing"}, {"id": 740765600, "item_id": 46297850, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46297850", "by": "LandenLove", "date": "2025-12-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Something similar to https://yomitan.wiki/", "excerpt": "The concept of \"injecting\" Japanese into text written in a different language is interesting. But I feel the presentation of word definitions are not great. Something similar to https://yomitan.wiki/ or https://jisho.org/search/kotoba would be preferred. E.g. \u8a00\u8449\u30fc\u3053\u3068\u3070\u30fcLanguage, word or phrase\u30fcKanji definitions\u30fcSample sentence", "context": "", "use_case": "Japanese dictionary browser extension", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing"}]}