If you would like to contribute to the project feel free to open issues or, even better, pull requests. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.
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
Right click on the icon of the extension and you will now be able to open the word list and and a tab with options. This will let you further customize your experience.
- First tone syllables are shown in red.
- Second tone syllables are shown in orange.
- Third tone syllables are shown in green.
- Forth tone syllables are shown in blue.
- 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
- Alt + W to open the word list.
- R to save a word to the list.
- 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 MoeDict.
- T is for looking up example sentences at Tatoeba.
- 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
- 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 theMandarin + Cantoneseextension) >Options. On theOptionspage, scroll to the very bottom and check the box for the optionEnable text-to-speech.
When running WSL you will need Chinese font to be available for the browser tests to pass, see below
https://help.accusoft.com/PrizmDoc/v12.2/HTML/Installing_Asian_Fonts_on_Ubuntu_and_Debian.html
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.
Copyright (C) 2024 Michal Tusnio
Original extension & documentation Copyright (C) 2019 Christian Schiller