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Mandarin & Cantonese dictionary with Pinyin + Jyutping pronunciation
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Version
1.1.0
Update
December 4, 2024
Size
5.6MiB
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Users
1,000+ 
Rating
4.8 ★
Manifest Version
2
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Mandarin + Cantonese Dictionary Extension
DEPRECATED
NEW users: Considering using the Manifest v3 compatible version of the extension here - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chinese-popup-dictionary/hnghjfeadioghjpcfpanoaphckiimpdl
CURRENT users: No support for migrating wordlists between the two extension versions is available at the moment. If you have no wordlist or are happy to lose your existing one, simply uninstall this extension and install the one linked above.
Based on the Zhongwen extension by C Shiller (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-chinese-english/), this is a fork that adds Cantonese & Jyutping support on top of Pinyin.
All features from the original extension and a few extra ones focused on the Cantonese language are available:
- Supports both traditional and simplified characters.
- Includes both the CEDICT Chinese English dictionary as well as https://cantonese.org/download.html)[CC-Canto] dictionary.
- Shows Jyutping and Pinyin alongside 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 pop-up window.
- Also supports keyboard navigation for translating the next character, the next word, or the previous character.
- Allows you to add words to a built-in word list. Words from this list can be exported to a text file for further processing, such as importing the words into Anki.
- Includes links to grammar and usage notes on the Chinese Grammar Wiki.
- Supports exporting words to the Skritter vocabulary queue.
- Zhuyin display can be enabled
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Navigation
N to move forward one word
B to move back one word
M to move forward one character - eg. it will display the second character in a two character word.
X and move the window up and down respectively
A moves the window to
Word List
Alt + W to open the word list.
R to save a word to the list.
Online dictionaries
Alt + 1 looks up the selected word using LINE Dict.
Alt + 2 lets you look up the pronunciation on Forvo.
Alt + 3 takes you to Dict.cn.
Alt + 4 uses iCIBA.
Alt + 5 looks up the word in the MDBG dictionary.
Alt + 6 takes you to JuKuu.
Alt + 7 takes you to MoeDict.
T is for looking up example sentences at Tatoeba.
Misc
S to add a word to your Skritter queue. You will need to be logged into Skritter for this to work.
C on the keyboard to copy the text together with dictionary entries into your clipboard. This is useful if you then want to insert them into Anki or your own words Spreadsheet.
E to play the Cantonese pronunciation of the selected character or phrase
W to play the Mandarin pronunciation of the selected character or phrase
Note:
For Linux users the TTS is not available using Brave, Firefox, and Chromium, but should work with Google Chrome.
To enable text to speech go to `Extensions` (the jigsaw icon on the top right) > `More actions` (three dots on the right of the `Mandarin + Cantonese` extension) > `Options`. On the `Options` page, scroll to the very bottom and check the box for the option `Enable text-to-speech`.
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NEW users: Considering using the Manifest v3 compatible version of the extension here - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/chinese-popup-dictionary/hnghjfeadioghjpcfpanoaphckiimpdl
CURRENT users: No support for migrating wordlists between the two extension versions is available at the moment. If you have no wordlist or are happy to lose your existing one, simply uninstall this extension and install the one linked above.
Based on the Zhongwen extension by C Shiller (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-chinese-english/), this is a fork that adds Cantonese & Jyutping support on top of Pinyin.
All features from the original extension and a few extra ones focused on the Cantonese language are available:
- Supports both traditional and simplified characters.
- Includes both the CEDICT Chinese English dictionary as well as https://cantonese.org/download.html)[CC-Canto] dictionary.
- Shows Jyutping and Pinyin alongside 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 pop-up window.
- Also supports keyboard navigation for translating the next character, the next word, or the previous character.
- Allows you to add words to a built-in word list. Words from this list can be exported to a text file for further processing, such as importing the words into Anki.
- Includes links to grammar and usage notes on the Chinese Grammar Wiki.
- Supports exporting words to the Skritter vocabulary queue.
- Zhuyin display can be enabled
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Navigation
N to move forward one word
B to move back one word
M to move forward one character - eg. it will display the second character in a two character word.
X and move the window up and down respectively
A moves the window to
Word List
Alt + W to open the word list.
R to save a word to the list.
Online dictionaries
Alt + 1 looks up the selected word using LINE Dict.
Alt + 2 lets you look up the pronunciation on Forvo.
Alt + 3 takes you to Dict.cn.
Alt + 4 uses iCIBA.
Alt + 5 looks up the word in the MDBG dictionary.
Alt + 6 takes you to JuKuu.
Alt + 7 takes you to MoeDict.
T is for looking up example sentences at Tatoeba.
Misc
S to add a word to your Skritter queue. You will need to be logged into Skritter for this to work.
C on the keyboard to copy the text together with dictionary entries into your clipboard. This is useful if you then want to insert them into Anki or your own words Spreadsheet.
E to play the Cantonese pronunciation of the selected character or phrase
W to play the Mandarin pronunciation of the selected character or phrase
Note:
For Linux users the TTS is not available using Brave, Firefox, and Chromium, but should work with Google Chrome.
To enable text to speech go to `Extensions` (the jigsaw icon on the top right) > `More actions` (three dots on the right of the `Mandarin + Cantonese` extension) > `Options`. On the `Options` page, scroll to the very bottom and check the box for the option `Enable text-to-speech`.
Source Manifest.json
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