Yomitan Setup Tutorial

What is Yomitan?

Yomitan is a browser extension that allows you to look up German words with both the meaning and the reading on web pages with ease.

Getting Started

Yomitan is available for both Chromium and Firefox based browsers. You can find the respective versions below.
Chrome Web Store
Microsoft Edge Add-ons
Firefox Add-ons
Once installed, it will open a new tab page, just close it for now so we don't confuse each other.

Acquiring Dictionaries

When you first install Yomitan, you need to load dictionaries into it in order to use it.
These files use the .zip extension and are not to be extracted by the user.

• seth-js/yomichan-de
• kaikki-to-yomitan
• MarvNC/yomitan-dictionaries

Installing dictionaries and basic usage

1. Click on the icon in the browser toolbar.
2. Click on the icon to access the settings page.
3. On the left sidebar, click on "Dictionaries" and then click on "Configure installed and enabled dictionaries…"
4. Click the "Import" button on the bottom.
5. Here's where you select the dictionaries to import.6. Please wait for the dictionaries to import. This could take a while.
6. Once complete, you can test Yomitan by holding down the Shift key and hovering over German text. Here is a sample: Deutsch. It will display a pop up box displaying the definitions separated by dictionary.

Click anywhere outside of the box or press the Esc key to dismiss. Click on an individual kanji in the headword to view kanji information (only functional with KANJIDIC installed).

You can click the button to hear the word being pronounced by a native speaker.

In your browser extensions toolbar, if you click on the Yomitan logo, then on the icon or by using the Alt+Ins keyboard shortcut, you can access Yomitan Search, this is where you can use Yomitan as a standalone German to English dictionary.

Pop up box size can be edited with advanced settings enabled.
A full dark mode can be enabled in the settings too.

Recommended frequency dictionaries

Yomitan supports the use of frequency dictionaries that tell you how common a word is.

What is a common word?

• Very common: 1-10,000
• Commmon: 10,001-20,000
• Fairly common: 20,001-30,000
• Kind of uncommon: 30,001-40,000
• Uncommon: 40,001-50,000
• Rare: 50,001-100,000
• Natives-probably-don't-know-it-level: 100,000+

Allowing access to file URLs

Enabling this allows you to use Yomitan on local files such as .HTML files.

PDF Files

On Chrome, you need to use PDF.js.

Chromium:
- Right click the
- Click "Manage Extensions"
- Enable "Allow access to file URLs"

Firefox:
- Enabled by default.