How well will this work?

Japanese
#1

I use the Anki deck called Core 2k/6k for vocabulary.

I have got the idea that once I learn a word, I’m gonna remove the furigana for it in every sentence in the deck. Or should I only do this for words with X interval?

How feasible is this idea?

#2

I don’t really use anki, but on Renshuu that is how I do it. After a word is learned no more furigana anywhere for it.

#3

Unfortionatly, you can either have all furigana or no furigana in anki. Whether you have furigana is determined in the Card Type- which is the same for each deck
You have to decide when you are ready to get rid of furigana- and remove it from the whole deck at the same time.

Here is a template from Tango N5 deck for furigana on hover(don’t include the single quotes)
Where
Reading: 水曜日[すいようび] はバイトが 在[あ]ります。
Expression: 水曜日 はバイトが 在ります。

<'div class=“sentence_wrap”>
<‘div lang=“ja” id=“question”>
{{#Reading}}{{furigana:Reading}}{{/Reading}}
{{^Reading}}{{Expression}}{{/Reading}}
’ <’/div>
Back
{{furigana:Reading}}
‘<’/div>
'<'div lang=en>{{SentEng}}
'<'div class=“vocab”>
{{VocabAudio}}{{SentAudio}}{{VocabKanji}}:
'<'div class=“definitions”>{{VocabDef}}
(I have a friend who does anki on an iPad and this doesn’t always work for her)

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And Back
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Then in the CSS tab there is (you can change the color from Magenta. I picked it because it shows up in light and dark mode). Fortunately this you can copy paste.
b {
font-weight: 600;
color: Magenta;
}

/* Japanese sentence */

.jpsentence {
font-size: 35px;
}

/* Hide furigana on front */
nokana ruby rt {
opacity: 0;
font-size: 0;
display: none;
}

/* AnkiDroid peplay button */
.replaybutton {
margin: 0;
margin-right: 3px;
text-decoration: none;
}
.replaybutton span {
padding: 0;
font-size: 16px;
}
.replaybutton span svg {
background: Black;
border-radius: 3px;
vertical-align: top;
min-width: 16px;
min-height: 16px;
}

/* PC peplay button */
a.replay-button {
top: -0.125em;
position: relative;
}
a.replay-button svg {
height: 1em;
width: 1em;
}

.vocab {
margin-top: 16px;
}
.vocab div {
display: inline-block;
}
.vocab br {
display: none;
}

/* Hidden furigana on front */
#question ruby rt {
visibility: hidden;
}
#question ruby:hover rt {
visibility: visible;
}

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#4

The idea sounds good, but I don’t know how to implement it in Anki as well as in browser-based SRS tools. Maybe there’s a good addon for it.

To remove furigana per word you can probably search-and-replace across the whole deck, e.g. “水曜日[すいようび]” → “水曜日”. But if furigana is added by an addon, it might add it back later…

I have his configuration for furigana (not in Anki, but in browser/ttsu+jpdb reader):

  • if a word already has furigana in the book/webpage, don’t remove or hide it. Helps to spot issues with auto-added readings

  • if a word is new/unknown, it gets an underline and furigana on hover. Only on hover, to try to guess the reading from kanji

underline and hover

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  • if a word is known, it gets no furigana, only jpdb popup on shift, and a different underline. Then I mark it as correct/failed from the popup
popup

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#5

He can copy note type, then remove furigana from the copy’s template. When the time has come op can just change the note type :thinking:

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#6

In the deck I am using for Japanese vocabulary I can remove furigana from the fields of individual cards.

#7

The add on that changes 水曜日[すいようび] to 水曜日(すいようび)
Is called JAPANESE

Once you feel more confident in your kanji you can either
Export: to csv to “find replace” the furigana on words you are confident in as casual said
[The add on will not automatically create the readings].

Or

turn off furigana on hover for all cards as Homa recomends

I don’t recomend changing each card in Anki’s browser. It will be too tedious with 5999 cards in your deck.

EX) 174 cards use 今日, and 218 use 私[わたし] in the deck I’m using.