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.
npx @puppeteer/browsers install chrome@stable
npx @puppeteer/browsers install firefox@stableWhen 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
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Copyright (C) 2024 Michal Tusnio
Original extension & documentation Copyright (C) 2019 Christian Schiller