Hover over Chinese characters for definitions, images, examples, visualizations, radicals, frequencies, HSK info, & more

Latest Version

Version
1.4.5
Update
March 20, 2023
Size
7.7MiB
Developer
Category
Users
619
Rating
4.92308 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Chinese Console Popup Dictionary Extension

Chinese Console - Popup Chinese-English Dictionary is a tool to help you read, explore, and better understand the Chinese characters in any web page on the web.

By hovering over words and characters you are interested in, detailed information will be shown in the console area. The information that Chinese Console shows includes:

- Mandarin Chinese-English Dictionary definitions
- Simplified and Traditional characters
- Pinyin tone pronunciation
- Animated stroke order digrams
- A list of example words that a character occurs in
- A list of similar characters (eg 大犬六穴太尢)
- Character radical composition information
- View images associated with the searched word
- Colorize all characters on the page by frequency in the language
- Colorize all characters on the page by frequency on the page
- A flexible layout (display in corners, or on left or right side
- Floatable mode, where a box of information follows your cursor
- Colorized themes, including light mode, dark mode, \"morning\", \"ocean\", \"forest\" & \"candy\"
- Minimized mode
- Navigate a history of searched words
- Search by typing interface
- HSK level information
- Configurable to display only info you want
- Global and Site-specific configuration
- Configurable hot-key (alt, ctl...) to activate console

You can color the characters on the page according to how common (green) or uncommon (red) the character is so you know how \"important\" the character is. Using this \"distribution frequency\" you can colorize characters by frequency in the language as a whole (based on a Chinese web corpus), or the page being viewed.

Another common way to know how \"important\" or \"difficult\" a character is is by using the HSK level (汉语水平考试 (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi ), Chinese Proficiency Test administered by the Hanban. Chinese Console

Characters are formed by radicals, and Chinese Console decomposes characters into radicals for better understanding. At the touch of a button you can view images associated with the word you've looked up to get a better idea of what that word means on the web. You can also customize where the console appears on the page so that your content is always easily viewable.

If you don't need to display some of this information the console can be configured to show only what you need. You can also maintain a separate configuration (position, and info display) both globally (all pages) and per-site if needed.

The console uses a 'hot-key' to activate it's searching, to stay out of the way of normal page interactions. This key is configurable by you in a variety of ways for both Mac and PC users.


ROADMAP

- Integrate Extension with a website backend so users can track their own words and pages.

CHANGELOG

Version 1.4.2

- Added animated stroke order diagrams for characters

Version 1.4.1

- Added colored theme support

Version 1.4.0

- Character information is now shown for sub-words and all characters. In previous version results for 共同体 would only show info for 共同体 and 共. In version 1.4 results will show 共同体, 共同, 共,同 and 体.
- A link to donate to support the project is now provided.
- Long words (5 chars or more) now show in smaller text, to prevent overlapping display.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Chinese Console Popup Dictionary", "description": "Hover over Chinese characters for definitions, images, examples, visualizations, radicals, frequencies, HSK info, & more", "version": "1.4.5", "browser_action": { "default_icon": "images/icon48.png", "default_title": "Chinese Console - Chinese-English Dictionary" }, "background": { "scripts": [ "third_party/hot-reload.js", "extension_background.js" ] }, "icons": { "16": "images/icon16.png", "48": "images/icon48.png", "128": "images/icon128.png" }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [ "http://*/*", "https://*/*"], "js": ["extension_content.js"], "all_frames": false } ], "permissions": [ "activeTab", "storage" ], "web_accessible_resources": [ "data/*", "images/*", "fonts/*"], "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' https://www.google-analytics.com; object-src 'self'"}
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User reviews

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Mihail Gor (ID: 00000080d5824c1c) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/26/2022 It is a great plugin to learn Chineese and practice translation. Very lightweight and easy to use. Superusefull. Recommended 100%.

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Язык, словесность и культура Китая (ID: 000000bbc614475f) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/19/2022 Very nice and promising extension, it is evident there has been put a lot of though in the creation of it. I wish you would continue to make fellow Mandarin learners happy by updating and improving on your work. As a student with no money to go around, I can't do anything but encourage you with this review.

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Cao Anh (ID: 0000002bbb5e2e39) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/20/2021 Great extension. But could you please update the Text to Speech feature! To read the selected text out loud. Thanks!

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Marios Levi (ID: 0000002b109feb16) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 05/02/2021 Great extension, however it does cause a bug on certain page where the Footer of the page gets stuck in the middle of the page and doesn't get affected by scrolling... To counteract it, I just set it to only run when I click the icon, rather than all sites.

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Will Taylor (ID: 0000003dbf5f2bd6) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 09/01/2020 Incredibly useful way to pick up Chinese characters from news sites like China Daily. Very intuitive, love it.