Look up the Chinese words of English words as well, and other great tools for learning Mandarin Chinese

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Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary Extension

CWS (Chinese words separator) is pronounced as Swiss.

Learn Chinese by reading, listening, and practicing speaking Chinese with this CWS army knife. Oh, and you can practice writing with it too.

Can be used by native Chinese speakers to learn English as well.

Instantly makes any web pages in Chinese as your learning resources.

Suddenly remembers a Chinese word (or needing to quickly know the Chinese word(s) of an English word(or phrase)) that is not in the page? CWS has a searchable dictionary (🔍 icon in CWS toolbar pop-up) that you can use in this situation. You can also use your device's microphone to search the word instead of typing it out.

Set your own learning priorities by color-coding and/or annotating the words with Pinyin(or zhuyin/bopomofo), HSK, or Familiarity. You already know how to pronounce most words, and you need reinforcement on their tones? Just color-code or annotate the hanzi(Chinese character) with tone. You just want to learn the Chinese language without needing to learn hanzi? You can make CWS convert the hanzi to pinyin automatically. The learner decides what to learn based on his/her priorities, not the tool.

Words separator for page and dictionary.

Demystifies Chinese readability by words separation and pinyin(or zhuyin/bopomofo) annotation.

Demystifies a Chinese character by separating it to its component characters, this can be done in the dictionary by right-clicking the character. Multi-characters word can be separated as well.

Mine sentences from imported Offline sentence miner.

Mine sentences from 10 or more online mining sites.

Learners can add more sentence mining sites by themselves without needing to ask the developer to update the list of 10 online sentence mining sites.

Hover less, read more using the extension's sentence mode dictionary, saves a lot of time.

Look up the meanings of a Chinese word and phrase while browsing the web.

Lookup the Chinese word(s) of an English word and phrase while browsing the web.

Easily change the hanzi's size and font of the page to make reading more relaxing.

Enhances tones memorization by using pin1yin1 IME.

Quite configurable, and easy to use.

Can be made to remember 3 websites visited for each word, this can be enabled in Recall and Rewrite modules.

Read the complete functionalities of CWS in https://chinese-words-separator.github.io/

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HOW TO USE THE DICTIONARY:
Simply go to a web page in Chinese. Then to use the dictionary, hover the mouse cursor over any Chinese words (i.e., Chinese characters or even Chinese words that are not using pure Chinese characters, e.g., 3Q, AA制) to pop up the sticky note-like dictionary that shows the English translation of the Chinese word(or phrase) along with its pinyin (or zhuyin/bopomofo) romanization; on phone or tablet, just tap the Chinese word or sentence(or phrase).

HOW TO USE THE WORD OR CHARACTER SEPARATOR IN THE DICTIONARY:
Right-click the word(or phrase) or character in the dictionary. On phone/tablet, swipe the word(or phrase) or character to the right.

HOW TO USE THE WORDS SEPARATOR IN THE PAGE:
Choose any of the following: Beginner, Lower-intermediate, Intermediate, Advanced, or configure it in More Settings (⚙ icon in CWS pop-up toolbar) screen.

To make the extension work on Android, install Kiwi browser on your Android device, then install CWS from chrome web store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser

To use the extension on Safari on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, install CWS from:
https://apps.apple.com/app/chinese-words-separator/id1598790017

For Chinese-French, Chinese-German, Chinese-Hungarian definitions, follow these instructions:
https://github.com/chinese-words-separator/chinese-words-separator.github.io/issues/27#issuecomment-2235239809

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Latest version (optimizations):

* Optimized the words separator's processor, it is now using just a 160 KB memory lookup to perform a task.
In the past, it was reading the word's HSK level from a big file which causes the words separator memory consumption to spike up to 100 MB; now the words HSK level info is embedded directly into the code, which is just 160 KB in size

* Optimized memory footprint for CWS's dictionary, it can now be just 26 MB.
CWS's dictionary can now be made significantly more lightweight than other dictionaries despite CWS having over 180K words (others have 120K words). This can be made possible by making CWS read the dictionary from the database instead of from file. To configure CWS to read the dictionary from the database instead of from file, go to CWS's Options screen and click the button labeled *Save the dictionary to database*. With database use, the dictionary's memory footprint will be reduced from 108 MB down to 26 MB

Other file-based dictionaries' memory footprint:
* Zhongwen: 42 MB
* LiuChan: 82 MB
* Inkah: 76 MB
* Zhongzhong: 45 MB

Versions: https://chinese-words-separator.github.io/versions.html

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Dictionary sources:
* CC-CEDICT - Over 120K words
* CedPane - Over 70K words, plenty of names and proper nouns

If you need to contribute word definitions, prefer contributing to CC-CEDICT:
https://cc-cedict.org/editor/editor.php?handler=ListChanges

If you need to contribute names and proper nouns, prefer contributing to CedPane:
https://github.com/ssb22/CedPane
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How to download and manually install Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension file

Select and download the Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Chinese words separator: Chinese dictionary extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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User reviews

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Raquel Coy (ID: 0000002221ae57ed) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/21/2023 Excellent and invaluable tool for learning Chinese!

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Sáng Nguyễn Quang (ID: 00000096489bbf6e) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/08/2023 很好

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Eric Paroissien (ID: 0000008047fc2786) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/08/2023 I solved the issue of the grey left pane for "read off line" that doesn't close by pasting my text into pastebin.com.

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Mini Duos Samsung (ID: 000000eda2257ce6) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/17/2023 Great add-on, amazing job, great and very useful! Thanks a lot! Impressive update, a whole bunch of cool new features. Can a couple of things be made on top of this: 1. Make strokes colours in Calligraphy writer customizable (now fixed red/green, and these are quite popular colors for tone-coloring, so this could lead to some mess in mnemonics, because in Calligraphy writer these colors have no relation to tones. I'd personally would prefer blue or gray shades as they are not used in my tone-coloring scenario, similarly it can be possible for other users who use red/green for tone colors). 2. Now there are no tone-colors in popup dictionary, can tone colors be added there, too? At least to the lookup word itself and its pinyin/bopomofo? It could be especially useful for users in expert mode without text coloring to lookup specific words and immediately see their color tone which is a quicker and a more intuitive way of rendering and memorizing tones than tone diacritics or numbers.

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mayblu (ID: 00000064b77e1275) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/13/2023 thjis extension is op ong bro thx sm helped a lot :3 i turned on the pinyin thing bc a lot of the newer words ive learned come from donghuas or cdramas and like i dont recognize some of the chars but recognize the word when i hear it ykwim