Point at a word.
See the kana reading, romaji, meaning, JLPT level and pitch accent.
JAPANESE DICTIONARY FOR CHROME
A Japanese dictionary
on every page.
Point at any Japanese word or kanji for its reading, meaning and JLPT level. No copying into a search box.
Add Iris to Chrome Free Chrome extension. Installs in 30 seconds. No account needed.
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Try a word. Or the final dot for the whole sentence.JA → EN
kaigi
- meeting
LOOK IT UP WITHOUT LEAVING THE PAGE
The kanji you don’t know.
Read in a second.
Iris is a free Chrome extension with the dictionary built in. It works on websites, Gmail, Google Docs, YouTube and Netflix subtitles, PDFs and images.
Read kanji you’ve never seen.
Point at it for its kana reading and meaning, with no radicals or stroke counts. In YouTube and Netflix subtitles, Iris shows readings above the kanji.
Read Japanese in images and PDFs.
Right-click an image and choose “Read Japanese in this image with Iris”. Free reads 5 images a day.
Add Iris to Chrome, free Desktop Chrome. Installs in 30 seconds. No account needed.
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Questions about Iris
Is Iris free?
Yes. Reading, word lookup, saving words and daily review are free and need no account. Iris Pro adds Japanese writing help in Gmail and Google Chat, Google Meet caption capture, every page of your PDFs, reading of stylized text in images and vocabulary sync.
Does Iris send the pages I read to a server?
No. The Japanese dictionary is built into the extension, so word lookups stay on your device. Writing help and meeting analysis use cloud AI only when you ask for them.
Which languages does Iris support?
Word meanings come in English, Spanish, French or German. The interface is in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Thai, and sentence translation uses your language when Chrome supports it.
Does Iris work with PDFs and images?
Yes. Japanese PDFs open in the Iris reader with the first 5 pages of each PDF free, and Iris reads Japanese text in images on your device, 5 images a day. Pro reads every PDF page.
Is there a mobile app?
No. Iris is an extension for Google Chrome on desktop computers.