Chinese words separator
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Chinese dictionary, look up the Chinese words of English words as well, and other great tools for learning Mandarin Chinese
Words separator for dictionary and page
Annotate pinyin, zhuyin/bopomofo, tone, HSK, color, space to Chinese text
Sentence mining
Hover less, read more using the extension's sentence mode dictionary, saves a lot of time
Instantly makes any websites in Chinese as your learning resources
Look up Chinese / Zhongwen words and phrases while browsing the web
Easily change the hanzi's size and font of the page to make reading more relaxing
Configurable, and easy to use
Can be made to remember 3 websites visited for each word on Recall and Rewrite modules
Convert Chinese text to Traditional or Simplified
Read Chinese easily using Pinyin or Zhuyin/Bopomofo
The companion Chinese-English dictionary for your Safari browser on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
more No matter what I do in the settings, I cannot get it to stop saying words out loud if I hover over a word. “automatically read” is not selected. That’s very annoyingChanging the font seems to be broken, because lots of them don’t work, and which ones work depends on the siteOn the Extension settings Window in the Safari settings panel, I see three error messages at the bottom of that window that say:TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'chrome.runtime.OnInstalledReason.INSTALL') (background.js:3:42034)Error: Unchecked runtime.lastError: Invalid call to menus.create(). Identifier is already used.TypeError: Importing a module script failed. (content-script.js:3:17)
No matter what I do in the settings, I cannot get it to stop saying words out loud if I hover over a word. “automatically read” is not selected. That’s very annoyingChanging the font seems to be broken, because lots of them don’t work, and which ones work depends on the siteOn the Extension settings Window in the Safari settings panel, I see three error messages at the bottom of that window that say:TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'chrome.runtime.OnInstalledReason.INSTALL') (background.js:3:42034)Error: Unchecked runtime.lastError: Invalid call to menus.create(). Identifier is already used.TypeError: Importing a module script failed. (content-script.js:3:17)
OPTIMIZATION: SRS (Recall,Rewrite,Respeak): Cached the date formatter function
FIX: Dictionary: When translation (Google/DeepL/Bing) is shown in the dictionary, the repositioning was not working correctly. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary: On some sites, the dictionary was being animated. This is fixed now, the dictionary is not affected by animations anymore
FIX: Dictionary: On some sites, the dictionary's font was adapting the site's font. This is fixed now, the dictionary's font is now consistent across sites
8.24.84.3480 Oct 4
UPDATE: Dictionary: Improved character decomposition
UPDATE: Dictionary: Improved character other info's ideographic hint
FIX: Page: On some sites, the text's vertical alignment was affected. This is fixed now
FIX: Page: On some sites, the text in `pre` tag was rendered in one line only with this combo: Guide: None, Tone + Word line colors. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary search: On some sites, the translators icons were outside the translator buttons. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary search: On some sites, the handwriting and microphone icons were oversized. This is fixed now
FIX: Popup (Guide setting): When Guide is unchecked and `Word line colors` is used, the word line colors was effecting on hovered word. This is fixed now, the word line colors is not anymore shown on hovered word when Guide is unchecked
8.24.84.3470 Sep 26
UPDATE: Dictionary: Showing non-visible guide is now also working when navigating via keyboard shortcuts: 'a', 'A'
FIX: Page, Video(subtitles): On some sites, when guide is tone marks, the characters vertical alignment was misaligned. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary: The dictionary-embedded translations (Google, DeepL, Bing) makes the pop-up window taller, this causes the dictionary to obstruct the guide (e.g., pinyin, tone marks). This is fixed now, the dictionary is now repositioning itself when the dictionary becomes taller, so that the guides will not be obstructed from view by the pop-up dictionary
FIX: Dictionary: 游 should show the swim sense first
FIX: Video: Subtitles, word line colors was showing under the pinyin when English annotation is on top. This is fixed now, word line colors appears directly under the hanzi
8.24.84.3460 Sep 25
OPTIMIZATION: Dictionary: If the word is already learned, the dictionary does not anymore make a backend request to update the familiarity
FIX: Page, Sentence dictionary: On some sites, the hovered sentence/phrase slightly shifts downward when thin dashed border is added to the bottom of sentence/phrase. This is fixed now, text layouts are not affected anymore when adding border to the bottom of the sentence/phrase
FIX: Video: Green background color was appearing in punctuations and English words when word line color is used. This is fixed now
FIX: Video: Checked/unchecked HSKs are now effecting on subtitle's word line colors
FIX: Sentence dictionary: Wrong location when guide is tone and the previous guide's location is under. This is fixed now, the sentence dictionary's location is correct for guide of tone regardless of previous guide's location setting
8.24.84.3450 Sep 17
FIX: Dictionary: Some characters are base characters but they were decomposed graphically. This is fixed now, characters decompositions should be by etymology only, not graphical
FIX: Dictionary: Unhide definition shortcut was not working. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary: Dynamically adding word sometimes makes the added word out of view. This is fixed now, the added word is now always visible
FIX: Page: Checked/unchecked HSKs were not effecting on word line colors when word line colors is of HSK or Familiarity. This is fixed now, checked/unchecked HSKs are now effecting on word line colors regardless of type of word line colors
FIX: Page: When `Show unchecked guides after reading the definition` is unchecked and some HSKs are unchecked, hovering a word that belongs to unchecked HSKs was still showing its word line colors. This is fixed now, with the settings above, word line colors does not become visible anymore when hovered
FIX: Page: Opacity was not effecting on word line colors on some combination of settings. This is fixed now, opacity is now always effecting on word line colors
8.24.84.3441 Sep 16
UPDATE: Recall, Respeak, Rewrite: Has now an option to choose an SRS algorithm: SM-2 or FSRS. This can be set in Settings
FIX: Page: Some websites re-duplicates the text multiple times when they are replaced by CWS. This is fixed now, no more text re-duplications
FIX: Dictionary: Have wrong location when there is a word line color. This is fixed now
8.24.84.3440 Sep 14
UPDATE: Page: Added neutral option for Word line colors
FIX: Sentence dictionary: There were some settings that makes the dictionary blocks the view of the hanzi's guide (e.g., pinyin). This is fixed now, the guides does not get blocked by the dictionary anymore
FIX: Dictionary: Character other info's padding was incorrect on some sites. This is fixed now
8.24.84.3430 Sep 13
FIX: Dictionary: AI assist was not working properly when page is converted to pinyin(or zhuyin) and has no hanzi. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary: Some characters decomposition have extra characters. This is fixed now, only the necessary decomposition characters are included
FIX: Word dictionary: Read-aloud is now working on highlighted characters
FIX: Familiarity: Should not be updatable when word is already marked as learned
8.24.84.3423 Sep 11
FIX: IME: Some sites affected the font used. This is fixed now, font is consistent across all sites
8.24.84.3422 Aug 30
UPDATE: Page, Dictionary: Removed surnames from hanzi's count of unique definitions, so that high frequency words (that can be surnames too) are not tagged as having many definitions. With this update, there are fewer words that are tagged as having many definitions, fewer pinyin are italicized or underlined. Here are just some of the high frequency words that are also surnames: 也 怕 左 时 红 从 皮 能 三 摇 罗 连 里 还 那 干 那 后 过 都 比 黑 成. This makes reading in pure pinyin (no hanzi) a lot more relaxing
FIX: Page: Separable verb causes some compound words to split even if the verb and object are split across different phrases. This is fixed now
8.24.84.3420 Aug 30
FIX: Dictionary: Sorting was incorrect, e.g., 坐 , `zuò to sit` should appear before `Zuò surname`. This is fixed now
FIX: Sentence dictionary: When in tagless mode, the keyboard shortcut 'w' produces empty phrase for context phrase when the highlighted is not the first phrase of the sentence. This is fixed now
8.24.84.3413 Aug 28
FIX: Dictionary: Was not working on further lookup when dictionary is positioned to the right side. This is fixed now
8.24.84.3412 Aug 26
UPDATE: Settings, Page: Allow `Show unchecked guides after reading the definition`, and HSK checkboxes to be changed when `Word line colors` is `Hanzi colors` (previously Original)
UPDATE: Dictionary: Calligraphy's bottom margin is now symmetrical to dictionary's top margin
FIX: Page: Variants were indicated on page as another meaning for the word, hence many words were italicized. This is fixed now, variants are not counted as another meaning for the word
FIX: Page: When `Learn sound first` level is used, long line of text was not wrapping. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary: Character other information was sometimes showing twice. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary: The calligraphy animation was not showing on some sites. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary: Some words, and popular variants were mislabelled as indirectly related. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary: Was showing vertical ellipsis when the word is multiple characters. This is fixed now
8.24.84.3410 Aug 25
UPDATE: Dictionary: Checkbox's color now uses the color set in the settings for light and dark mode
FIX: Page: Zhuyin that is displayed on the left side of hanzi was producing taller line height. This is fixed now, displaying zhuyin at either side (left or right) of the hanzi makes no difference on the line's height
FIX: Dictionary: Even if a word has no definition, both the familiarity setter and learned checkbox was showing. This is fixed now, both are not shown when a word has no definition
FIX: Dictionary: Some indirectly related words are not sorted last. This is fixed now, all indirectly related words are now sorted last
FIX: Dictionary: The tooltip that shows the dictionary was showing even if the tapped word is inside the dictionary, it should not be shown. This is fixed now
8.24.84.3400 Aug 21
UPDATE: Dictionary: Improved stemmer, so that more English words can be used to look up Chinese
UPDATE: Dictionary: Added indirectly related label to definitions that are not directly related to a hovered word
UPDATE: Dictionary, Settings: Added an option to include indirectly related variants to a hovered word
FIX: Sentence dictionary: When using English to Chinese lookup, a space character was matching some characters. This is fixed now
8.24.84.3390 Aug 18
UPDATE: Settings, Dictionary: When dictionary is displayed on a setting, the dictionary's background color now uses the background color that was chosen
FIX: Page, Dictionary: Separable verbs was detected on characters that spans itemized (denoted by Chinese reverse comma: 、) words/phrases. These separated characters should not be detected as separable verbs. This is fixed now
FIX: Page: Combinations of tone-colored hanzi + apply to guide only + exclude learned by word + line colors + some combination of guide, was causing the line to be displayed in the middle, making it look like an overstrike. This is fixed now
FIX: Settings: When hovering on Chinese word, clicking the radio input first was required so that the dictionary will be displayed. This is fixed now, merely hovering on Chinese words will show the definition of Chinese word
FIX: Settings: When clicking on an input with Chinese text, the dictionary just gets stuck there. This is fixed now, the dictionary now follows where the mouse cursor is
8.24.84.3370 Aug 17
FIX: Video, Sentence dictionary: Dictionary's location is wrong when used on subtitles. This is fixed now
FIX: Sentence dictionary: The sentence's height cannot be detected accurately when layout-preserving formatter was implemented. Accurate sentence's height is needed so that sentence dictionary can be repositioned to the top of the hovered sentence when the content of the dictionary cannot fit when at the bottom of the page. This is fixed now.
8.24.84.3363 Aug 15
FIX: Video: Subtitles layout were incorrect on certain settings. This is fixed now
FIX: Page: Effecting simple modifications to text such as color, garden-path, and separable verbs indicators, the text's original layout was being affected, text justifications are destroyed, text are shifting etc. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary: Some variants were not filtered out when *Show both traditional and simplified* is unchecked. This is fixed now, no more unrelated variants are shown when *Show both traditional and simplified* is unchecked
8.24.84.3361 Aug 14
UPDATE: All: Added and replaced some icons on some UI
UPDATE: Dictionary: Added an emoji for characters that indicates they are indirectly related to the character being looked up
8.24.84.3360 Aug 12
UPDATE: Dictionary: All kind of variants are now linked to the words they are referring to. The referred words are now listed with their variants if they have any.
FIX: Dictionary: Simplified words were shown with traditional variants. This is fixed now, simplified words are shown with simplified variants
FIX: Popup menu: Cursors consistency
8.24.84.3340 Aug 11
UPDATE: Dictionary: Variants was showing in simplified only, it is now showing in traditional too
UPDATE: All: Made titles and icons consistent
8.24.84.3330 Aug 9
UPDATE: Page, Dictionary: Words with variant characters in them are now parsed correctly and now shown with definition from the regular version of the word. Examples: 幹甚麼 = 幹什麼, 袴子 = 褲子, 钞本 = 抄本
8.24.84.3320 Aug 8
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
8.24.84.3311 Jul 4
FIX: Dictionary: Checkbox for learned (after of familiarity buttons) has wrong location on some sites. This is fixed now
8.24.84.3302 Jun 20
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
8.24.84.3301 Jun 9
OPTIMIZATION: SRS (Recall,Rewrite,Respeak): Cached the date formatter function
FIX: Dictionary: When translation (Google/DeepL/Bing) is shown in the dictionary, the repositioning was not working correctly. This is fixed now
FIX: Dictionary: On some sites, the dictionary was being animated. This is fixed now, the dictionary is not affected by animations anymore
FIX: Dictionary: On some sites, the dictionary's font was adapting the site's font. This is fixed now, the dictionary's font is now consistent across sites
more Version 8.24.84.3480 Oct 4
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