UPDATE: Video: There is now an option to set the opacity of the dual subtitles FIX: Calligraphy IME: Should not activate on buttons, should activate in text boxes only FIX: Dictionary: On some sites, dictionary is not working when manually selecting a text in the input box. This is fixed now FIX: Page, Dictionary: When a word is 还 and is followed by the word 没有, the word will not be considered for separable verb even when the sentence/phrase has a separable verb (e.g., 还价 huan2jia4) for the word

FIX: Dictionary: Checkbox for learned (after of familiarity buttons) has wrong location on some sites. This is fixed now

FIX: Learning list (sidebar): Learned HSK's right margins are different across websites, it should be consistent. This is fixed now FIX: pin1yin1 IME: The dictionary was not showing when the first few letters typed have no matching definitions. This is fixed now, the typed letters with no definitions are displayed by the dictionary as tooltip FIX: Dictionary(search): The AI assistant icon was showing even if the word has no context sentence/phrase. This is fixed now

UPDATE: Dictionary: One line definition has now a sub-option to apply one line definition to multiple words only UPDATE: Settings(Page): If `Apply to guide only` is checked, the Guide's `No Color` is now disabled to emphasize that enabling `Apply to guide only` overrides Guide's `No Color` settings FIX: Sentence dictionary: Familiarity was not auto-updating on first hovered word. This is fixed now

UPDATE: AI Assist: Handling of AI Assist shortcut (default is 'w') is now more robust, it can now reliably detect the context sentence/phrase of the word being inquired in AI. It can now also detect the context sentence of hovered word in offline sentence miner UPDATE: Video: Hanzi's English annotation that is 'classifier for sth' is replaced with 'CL:sth' UPDATE: Video: The non-Chinese characters are not vertically aligned when Guide's location is Above. This is fixed now, the non-Chinese characters are now vertically-aligned with Chinese characters FIX: Dictionary: When the dictionary hanzi's color setting is HSK-based and the hanzi is not in the list, it causes the dictionary not to display. This is fixed now, the dictionary now displays even if the character not in list

UPDATE: AI Assist: Information about a character can now be asked separately FIX: Dictionary: Some characters with component characters are indicated as base character. This is fixed now

UPDATE: Parallel Text: Can now translate the whole page, this can be done by double-clicking the parallel text icon UPDATE: Statistics: Words marked/unmarked as learned on pages are now automatically marked/unmarked in statistics too FIX: Page, Dictionary: Corrected tones and pinyin of words with numbers FIX: Settings: Selecting None for Guide should not uncheck the Exclude from guides unless the Line colors is also None. Likewise, selecting None for Line colors should not uncheck the Exclude from guides unless the Guide is also None

UPDATE: Dictionary: New words

FIX: Dictionary: The object of separable verb-object is not showing when dictionary's hanzi has no color or the dictionary's background is classic yellow. This is fixed now

UPDATE: Settings: Learner-preferred definitions now defaults to Vietnamese FIX: Video, Popup: When a size in the *Dual subtitles from translators* is selected in toolbar icon's popup settings, it should automatically make the second subtitle appear in the subtitles. This is fixed now, when a size is selected, it does not require the user to manually set the Duplicate Subtitles settings anymore

UPDATE: Settings: Change the example sentence where each succeeding words corresponds to next HSK level FIX: Sentence dictionary, PDF: Was not working on tagless text. This is fixed now

UPDATE: PDF: Mozilla's PDF.js is now embedded to CWS. Can now read PDF files even when offline UPDATE: Popup menu: Double-clicking notes icon will show notes on separate tab UPDATE: Dictionary: Checkboxes are now following the dark/light mode scheme of the dictionary's background color FIX: Page: Line colors have wrong Y location with this combinations: tone color + line color + guide on top + exclude learned by word, it was making the line look like strikethrough. This is fixed now, the line now appears under the character when the settings have the above combinations

FIX: Dictionary: Some Japanese characters causes the dictionary not be able to display itself. This is fixed now FIX: Dictionary: The pinyin's font-weight is overriden by some site's CSS. This is fixed now, we can now effect our own font-weight in the dictionary FIX: Dictionary: Some characters doesn't have component characters. This is fixed now

UPDATE: Page: Can now set the hanzi's color to original, and use the color on its guide (e.g., pinyin) instead. This can be used by enabling Hanzi colors' Apply to guide only checkbox UPDATE: DICTIONARY: Can now apply tone color to pinyin/zhuyin FIX: DICTIONARY: Custom tone color for hanzi is not effecting. This is fixed now

FIX: English-Chinese Dictionary: Corrected some stemmer flaws FIX: Sentence Dictionary: Was not working on 'pre' tags when on non-tagless mode. This is fixed now FIX: Dictionary: Some pinyin have wrong segmentations when the word is of mixed Chinese characters and English letters, e.g., 3D打印机. This is fixed now

OPTIMIZATION: Page: Optimized words frequency counter UPDATE: Learning List: Words can now be marked as learned by tapping(long-press on mobile) the word on the sidebar, regardless of the settings of requiring tapping(long-press on mobile) on words to be marked as learned. Requiring tapping/long-press on words to be marked as learned are now just effecting on the page's content only UPDATE: Page: Links are now excluded from HSK labels. Can be changed in settings FIX: Dictionary: When familiarity is updated automatically, it does not effect on the familiarity selector boxes in the dictionary. This is fixed now, the updated familiarity is now reflected on familiarity selector boxes FIX: Sentence Dictionary: When on tagless mode, hovering on a word and the dictionary is shown afterwards, the word's familiarity was not updating even if the familiarity is set to automatically update. This is fixed now FIX: HSK-graded Pages: Chinese slang (e.g., Tony, word (slang for 我的)) that are purely alphabets were included in page's words count. This is fixed now, only words that are Chinese characters or at least with one Chinese character are counted

UPDATE: Dictionary: Added Chinese+English locators for sentence mining from deckademy.com UPDATE: Dictionary: There is now an option to require Ctrl+Alt/control+option when hovering on words in text boxes FIX: Word dictionary: Some words that are mixed of English word/letter and Chinese word were not showing. This is fixed now FIX: Page, Dictionary: Apostrophes were appearing on pinyin that starts with vowel even though they are preceded by a comma. This typically happened on idioms with comma. This is fixed now FIX: pin1yin1 IME: Word's frequency was not updating when the word is typed. This is fixed now, typing a word bumps its frequency FIX: Settings: Switching quickly between dictionary modes causes CWS to easily reach max write operations quota error. This is fixed now

UPDATE: Dictionary: New words FIX: Dictionary: On Gmail, selecting Chinese text then clicking the CWS tooltip icon, the dictionary was not showing. This is fixed now FIX: Statistics: English-Chinese Dictionary should not show on buttons and labels FIX: Page: Marking learned words in the page should automatically effect on dictionary's checkboxes too

UPDATE: Word dictionary: When the highlighted text is English, and the user press 'A' (shortcut for previous character), it will now go back one word to the left, it does not make sense to scan one English letter backward, it is less likely (here are the few though: maze->amaze, word->sword, pear->spear) to match another English word, unlike Chinese character which can still make sense when scanning back one character, all characters in Chinese have meaning FIX: English-Chinese dictionary: Enabling the *Lookup the Chinese words of English words as well* should set the dictionary to word dictionary automatically. English-Chinese dictionary works on word dictionary mode only

UPDATE: Dictionary: Can now see the hanzi as familiarity-colored UPDATE: Dictionary: Color list selection for dictionary's background color UPDATE: pin1yin1 and zhuyin IME: Familiarity (if set to automatic) now gets updated when typing with CWS's IMEs

UPDATE: pin1yin1 IME: Can now insert full-width space and ｆｕｌｌ－ｗｉｄｔｈ　ｌｅｔｔｅｒｓ. For full-width space, before typing anything else, hold Shift key then press spacebar; for full-width letters, type in English then hold Shift key then press the Enter key UPDATE: Level: When using Intermediate or Advanced level, the user is now notified with the instruction of how to mark learned words UPDATE: Dictionary: When using on-demand word dictionary, requirement for Control+Alt word was just effecting on English words, now it effects on Chinese words too UPDATE: Dictionary: Added learned marker checkbox UPDATE: Dictionary: Can now make further lookup shows on same tab instead of window. Can enable this in Settings screen UPDATE: Video: Video sites can now be made tagless again, CWS can now selectively apply tags to subtitles only UPDATE: AI to Ask: Added ChatGPT and Grok to settings UPDATE: HSK-grader: When on Gemini and the page's HSK percentages is saved, it is using the title from the conversation instead of from the page UPDATE: pin1yin1 and zhuyin IME: Are now undo/redo-compatible FIX: Dictionary: Learned word marker shortcut not working when using keyboard navigation shortcuts ('a', 'A'), need to use mouse to hover on a word first before being able to use learned word marker shortcut. This is fixed now, keyboard shortcut users no longer need to use mouse to be able to use the learned word marker shortcut FIX: Dictionary: Learned word marker was not working by keyboard shortcut (e.g., 'g') when in tagless mode. This is fixed now FIX: IME: There's an error in IME that was causing the cursor to jump to the end of text when the user is typing in the beginning/middle of a long text. This is fixed now, the cursor stays in place even if the text is long

FIX: Web HSK: Don't allow 0% for filter FIX: Page HSK Percentages: Corrected the layout FIX: Page Learning List: Corrected the layout

UPDATE: Statistics: When learned words are hidden, it is now confirming first from learner when a not yet learned word is being marked as learned UPDATE: HSK: Updated to 2026 version of HSK 3.0 UPDATE: HSK: Added an option to include/exclude legacy HSK 3.0 2021 and HSK 2.0 words. Included by default FIX: Page: Annotations and formattings drastically changes the layout of 'pre' tags. 'pre' tags are excluded again from the annotations and formattings for the meantime FIX: Dictionary: Was showing 'null is already listed'. This is fixed now, null is now prevented FIX: Respeak: Was showing the definition for '%' sign on Respeak. This is fixed now, definition for '%' is no longer shown

UPDATE: Page: The 'pre' tags are now included in annotations and formattings FIX: Page, Dictionary: A character with two meanings is not italicized anymore if it is standing alone and its other meaning is just a bound form. e.g., 扫, 塞, 创, 冘

UPDATE: Dictionary: New words