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

UPDATE: Page, Dictionary: Familiarity has a range of 0 to 5 now. With 0 being not familiar, 1 as least familiar, 5 as highly familiar. 0 now defaults to dimgray, 1 to red, 5 to pink UPDATE: Page, Dictionary: Added an option to allow navigation of word's substring when using keyboard shortcut, e.g., 脑病 in 电脑病毒 will be navigated even though 电脑病毒 is one whole word. Note: This currently works on tagless mode only

UPDATE: Page: When using tagless mode, using keyboard shortcut 'a' (advancing to next word) now detects and highlights garden-path words FIX: Toolbar Menu: When *No color* is enabled in page, the count for spoken correctly is wrapping to next line. This is fixed now, the count is now in same line as the label Note on 8.24.84.3050: CWS is not working on Prime Video's subtitles. Have yet to find a fix

UPDATE: Page: Added WDXL Lubrifonts in Settings screen UPDATE: Dictionary, Page: 生意 now shows the 'business' sense first FIX: Settings: Resolved an issue where changes to the AI Question Template and AI to Ask settings failed to save in real-time. This is fixed now, previously, users had to click out of the input box to trigger a save; these values now save immediately as they are updated.

UPDATE: Spoken correctly: Its count is now shown on pop-up menu and statistics screen UPDATE: Video: Dictionary and pinyin annotation is now working on Prime Video subtitles FIX: Page: When page is converted to traditional or simplifed, marking learned words was marking the original writing system of the word instead of the writing system that the page is converted to. Should mark learned words based on the writing system that is converted to. Should only use the original writing system if there is no conversion, or if the writing system being converted to is pinyin or zhuyin. This is fixed now

OPTIMIZATION: Learning: Cache the learned count to local storage so we don't have to query the learned count from the database OPTIMIZATION: Read offline: Now only updates the frequencies of newly typed words or when the text is loaded from previously saved list of text UPDATE: Parser: More separable verbs detection. 你在生谁的气呢 was separated as 你,在生,谁,的,气,呢, now it is separated as 你,在,生,谁,的,气,呢, with 生气 being marked as separable verbs UPDATE: Parser: Improved garden-path defaults FIX: Read offline: The frequency of existing words in the old text does not get updated anymore when the learner types new words, unless the newly typed word is same as existing word FIX: Page: Changing the page from tagless to a non-tagless mode was re-updating the frequencies. This is fixed now, the double re-updates is now prevented

OPTIMIZATION: Page: Optimized the detection of tags FIX: AI Assist: On Gemini, the Chinese text were being recursively annotated with pinyin, causing multiple nesting of pinyin annotations. This is fixed now FIX: AI Assist: The context phrase/sentence of offline sentence miner's words were wrong. This is fixed now FIX: Dictionary: When used in further lookup window and the dictionary's location is at right, the dictionary was covering most of the page's content. This is fixed now, the dictionary location is now using the location setting from *Dictionary location when inside of more information's page* FIX: Dictionary: The dictionary was not able to scan the text in iQIYI's subtitle. This is fixed now

UPDATE: AI Assist for Phrase/Sentence: Was just available via keyboard shortcut. This can now be accessed via taps. Double-tap the word in the dictionary, then tap the brain icon UPDATE: Statistics: The list is now occupying the whole page's height UPDATE: Statistics: There is now a confirmation box when marking learned words on list of Hard to Remember Words

FIX: Dictionary: When both tagless page and sentence dictionary are active, the context phrase/sentence column was missing when copying the definitions to clipboard, or when remembering word(s) to learning tracking sheet. The context phrase/sentence was missing on AI Assist For Phrase/Sentence too. This is fixed now FIX: Dictionary: hanziDB link's blue color was barely visible on dark mode dictionary. This is fixed now, removed the color, the link is just bolded and italicized

UPDATE: Dictionary: When a character's definition is not available, its definition can now be looked up from a site (e.g., http://hanzidb.org/). The lookup site can be changed in Settings screen

UPDATE: Dictionary: Can now ask AI about the use of a word in the sentence from a question template. Both the question template and the AI url can be changed in Settings screen. Default keyboard shortcut is 'w', can be changed in Settings screen UPDATE: Statistics: Learned words can now be marked from the list of words