Installation guide for Japanese learners
Mouse Dictionary is a super-fast dictionary for Chrome.
- Super fast
- Detect phrases in text intelligently
- You can import your own text data
- Customizable display
This is a step-by-step guide to setup Mouse Dictionary.
Right-click the Mouse Dictionary icon, click "Options" and open the settings screen.
If this is the first time for you, you'll be asked this.
Click OK and create initial dictionary data. This dictionary is "ejdic-hand", which is public domain great English-Japanese data.
Creating dictionary data has successfully installed if you see this screen.
Open a web page you like, and click this extension's icon.
Now you can experience the world's fastest dictionary tool!
If you want to use Mouse Dictionary in order to read web pages in Japanese, you need to import Japanese-English data.
Get ja_en_utf8.tsv from here.
https://mouse-dictionary.netlify.com/data/
And, import it from the options screen.
Choose options like this:
| Option | Value |
|---|---|
| Character set of dictionary data | UTF-8 |
| Format of dictionary data | TSV |
| Choose file | ja_en_utf8.tsv |
And click the "LOAD" button.
Now Japanese-English is ready!