Yomitan (popup dictionary) is now available for several languages

I’m not affiliated with Yomitan :smiley: I feel like this information hasn’t really been shared, but since many of the users here learn multiple languages, I thought it might be of interest to you.

These are the languages currently supported:

What is Yomitan?

Yomitan is a pop-up dictionary. You have to upload some dictionaries and then you can open a quick definition in any text with a modifier key whenever you hover over the text:

Japanese:

Croatian:

It can also give you context about the grammar being used, for example showing you the verb in its infinitive form.

Where can you get dictionaries for these other languages?

I found this source (scroll down to assets) where you can get wiktionary based dictionaries for Yomitan for (I think) all of the languages mentioned above.

What if I want to use more than one language?

You can easily switch between languages by adding profiles.

You can then switch by clicking on the profile tab of the extension.

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Hope this helps someone out! For me this is really exciting and I’ve been using Yomitan for two languages for several days now :smiley:

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OMG YES.

Yomichan (the og) was such a great tool for mining flashcards and I wanted to replicate this process for Korean. Absolute gamechanger. :smiley:

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I’ve also used Yomichan before! Yomitan brings a bunch of quality of life improvements and they are still actively bringing new features and improving things, so it’s progress in every way :smiley:

I’ve always wanted something like that for other languagens. Thanks

Once again, I am not affiliated with Yomitan or the creator of the following dictionaries but wanted to share since I find it pretty cool:

You can now get wikipedia as a dictionary inside your yomitan!

The dictionaries feature most of that language’s Wikipedia, with each entry containing the abstract and a link to the Wikipedia article.


Available for several languages as well.

Get it here:

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