Anki tip, inserting furigana (pop up on mouse hover)

Anki card template to handle furigana with kanji - 12/2017 - #Misc

How to make furigana appear above Kanjis in your anki flash cards like this: お箸はし上手じょうずですね！

Only a small modification of the template of your cards is necessary, open anki and go to tools->note type (or CTRL+SHIFT+N)

 

Select the template to which you want to add furiganas, here I choose "Basic" and click on the cards button:

Now we need to setup a new css styling, feel free to play with the colors, this style should be legible in both dark and bright mode theme: 

ruby rt { color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);  text-decoration: underline dotted rgba(64, 107, 213, 1);  }
ruby:hover rt { color: grey; text-decoration: none; }

Now add furigana: as a prefix of the {{Front}} and {{Back}} tags, to activate the automatic generation of html tags when anki encouters brackets [] (i.e furigana): 

<!-- On front and back side of the card change fields from -->
{{Front}}
{{Back}}

<!--  to this: -->
{{furigana:Front}}
{{furigana:Back}}

Now when creating cards, you can use brackets to display furigana:

Just prefix a Latin space before the kanji and put brackets right after it.

Voila!

three comments

Thanks!

John - 24/02/2022 -- 13:05

Thank you so much

John2 - 09/02/2024 -- 11:43

This approach won’t work with automatic dark mode.

Raine - 04/03/2024 -- 21:57
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