This is a lightweight popup for searching selected text in your Yomichan dictionaries with support for creating Anki cards. The look of the popup will depend on your gtk3 settings.
demo1.mp4
demo2_reenc.mp4
- Deinflect
- Yomichan-style lookup, i.e. decrease length of lookup until there is a match
- Sort dictionary entries by frequency (Requires a frequency dictionary. I recommend CC100)
- Fall back to a hiragana conversion (For words written half in kanji / half in hiragana, e.g: かけ布団, 思いつく)
- Play a pronunciations (requires files see Pronunciation)
- Add the word to Anki using either the visible definition, the mouse selection or clipboard contents
- Indicator showing if a word already exists in your Anki deck / collection.
- Allow adding the window title to some Anki field (If you are adding from a book, this will e.g. most probably contain the book title)
- Fast and memory efficient
lmdb, mecab, gtk3, libx11, curl, libnotify, libzip, gperf
AnkiConnect Anki addon (for Anki support)
ffplay (optional, for pronunciation)
Install the AUR package dictpopup.
First make sure, that you have all necessary dependencies installed. On a Debian based distro this can be done with:
sudo apt-get install liblmdb-dev libmecab-dev libgtk-3-dev libx11-dev \
libcurl4-openssl-dev libnotify-dev libzip-dev zipcmp zipmerge ziptool \
gperf gettext
Then install with:
git clone "https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/dictpopup.git"
cd dictpopup
cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF
sudo cmake --build build --target install -j 3The manual installation instructions above should also work for Windows under MSYS2, so someone experienced might get it to run.
After the program installation you need to first create an index where the dictionary entries are read from.
For this, open dictpopup-config (or dictpopup and then menu button > settings), then under 'Add dictionaries' in the
'General' tab, choose the folder that contains all of your Yomichan dictionaries and click 'Generate Index'.
You can also include a frequency dictionary in there, but only one (it will give an error if you add more, because I don't think that mixing makes sense).
To enable pronunciation, simply download some pronunciation indices from Ajatt-Tools (such as NHK 2016) and generate an index under 'Add Pronunciation Files' in the 'Pronunciation' tab of the settings window. The expected folder structure looks as follows:
├── ajt_japanese_audio
│ ├── daijisen_pronunciations_index
│ │ ├── index.json
│ │ ├── media
│ ├── nhk_1998_pronunciations_index
│ │ ├── index.json
│ │ ├── media
│ │ └── release_info.conf
│ ├── nhk_2016_pronunciations_index
│ │ ├── index.json
By right clicking the pronunciation button, you can open a menu with all the available pronunciations for the current kanji/reading pair.
Select a word and call dictpopup (using a shortcut). It is also possible to give an argument
instead: dictpopup WORD.
If something is not working as expected, you can add DP_DEBUG=1 before the command or add the command line option -c
to print the config on stdout.
The "+" sign adds the currently shown definition to Anki after prompting you to copy a sentence (if enabled). If there is text selected in the popup window, it will be used instead as a definition. Furthermore, by right-clicking the + sign, you can also use the current clipboard content as the definition instead.
- Next entry: n, s
- Previous entry: p, a
- Create an Anki card: Ctrl+ s
- Play audio: p, r
- Exit: q, Esc
You can use any dictionary as long as at is in Yomichan format. However, currently there is only a deinflector available for Japanese.
Yomichan dictinaries for other languages are for example available here: https://github.com/themoeway/kaikki-to-yomitan/releases.
If you are having trouble setting up the program, don't hesitate to open up an issue or write me an email.