About Yomi
Yomi turns any block of Chinese, Japanese or Korean text into a readable version with pronunciation above each word and meanings a tap away.
What it does
Reading in a language you are still learning breaks down on the words you cannot pronounce. Yomi fixes that by placing the reading — pinyin, furigana or romanization — directly above the original, so you keep reading the real script instead of a transliteration of it. Tap or hover any word and you get its meaning, plus a character-by-character breakdown.
How to use it
- Copy text from an article, chat, subtitle file or book.
- Paste it into the reader on the home page.
- Or paste, drop or upload a screenshot and the text is pulled out for you.
- Tap any word for its meaning; toggle reading, meaning and grammar layers.
Who it is for
Language learners reading native material, students working through textbook passages, travellers decoding signs and menus, and anyone who runs into foreign text online and wants to understand it without leaving the page.
Dictionary and accuracy
Chinese meanings come from CC-CEDICT, an open dictionary with roughly 124,000 entries covering both simplified and traditional forms. Japanese text is split with a morphological analyser so furigana lands on the kanji only. Korean uses Revised Romanization with per-syllable breakdown. Readings are accurate for the vast majority of everyday text; rare words and unusual names can still be off.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Yomi free?
- Yes. Pasting and annotating text is free and unlimited, and no account is required.
- Does my text get sent anywhere?
- Typed and pasted text is annotated entirely inside your browser, so it never leaves your device. Only screenshot reading sends the image for text extraction.
- Which languages are supported?
- Mandarin Chinese (simplified and traditional) with pinyin, Japanese with furigana and romaji, and Korean with Revised Romanization. More reading systems, including Cantonese jyutping, are planned.
- Can I use it on my phone?
- Yes. Yomi is built mobile-first, so you can copy text on your phone, paste it in and read straight away.