Zhongwen
Firefox Port of Chrome Extension Chinese-English Popup Dictionary; Obsolete with v5 of the Chrome Extension, adding cross-browser support: https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen
Install / Use
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Zhongwen - A Chinese Popup Dictionary
Copyright (C) 2010-2018 Christian Schiller
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhongwen-chinese-english/
Translate Chinese characters and words by simply hovering over them with the mouse.
- Supports both traditional and simplified characters.
- Includes a recent version of the widely used CEDICT Chinese English dictionary.
- Displays Hanyu Pinyin along both the simplified and traditional characters.
- Uses a large font size for the Chinese characters to help learners clearly identify and memorize the different characters, especially those with a large number of strokes. Can also be used as a magnifier for small Chinese characters.
- As a learning aid it uses different colors for displaying the Pinyin syllables, depending on the tone of the Chinese character.
- Can be turned on and off with a single mouse-click.
- Highlights the characters whose translation is displayed in the popup window.
- Also supports keyboard navigation for translating the next character, the next word, or the previous character.
- Supports exporting words to the Skritter vocabulary queue (https://skritter.com/)
- Includes links to grammar and usage notes on the Chinese Grammar Wiki (https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
