Japanese furigana reader
Paste Japanese text and get furigana above the kanji, romaji as a secondary reading, and word meanings when you tap.
Furigana where it belongs
Japanese reading practice usually breaks on one unfamiliar kanji compound. A furigana reader removes that wall without turning the text into romaji: the original writing stays exactly as it is, and small kana readings sit above the kanji only.
Real word segmentation
Japanese is written without spaces and verbs change shape, so a naive tool mangles it. Yomi runs a morphological analyser over your text, which keeps 読んで together as one word, identifies particles like は, が and を, and gives each token a part-of-speech label you can switch on in the grammar layer.
Ways learners use it
- Read NHK Easy News or blog posts above your current kanji level.
- Check readings of names, place names and rare compounds.
- Pull Japanese out of a manga panel or game screenshot and read it.
- Prepare a passage before a lesson so you can read aloud smoothly.
Free and private
Japanese annotation runs in your browser. The first Japanese text you read downloads the dictionary the analyser needs, then everything is local. There is no account and nothing to install.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I add furigana to Japanese text?
- Copy the Japanese text, paste it into the reader on the home page and press Read. Hiragana furigana appears above the kanji straight away.
- Is furigana added over kana too?
- No. Readings are placed only above kanji, the way furigana is printed in Japanese books, so the text stays clean.
- Can I see romaji instead?
- Romaji is shown as a secondary reading and word meanings appear on tap, so you can lean on whichever you need.
- Does it handle particles and verb forms?
- Yes. Text is split with a morphological analyser, so conjugated verbs stay intact and particles are labelled in the grammar layer.