Miaob - Chinese Reading Companion

Automatically highlights idioms, famous quotes and xiehouyu as you read Chinese web pages. Hover to see origins and meanings. Makes…

Summary Browse Chinese web pages and automatically discover idioms, famous quotes, and highlights. Click to view explanations, origins, and context — then save and share the best parts of any article. Discover the gems in Chinese articles Miaob is a Chrome extension for reading Chinese content. Open an article, and it will find the idioms, classic quotes, xiehouyu (Chinese riddles), and noteworthy expressions — gently highlighting them in the original text. See an unfamiliar idiom? Look up its meaning and origin instantly. Find a beautifully written sentence? Save, copy, or share it with one click. What you can do with Miaob Discover idioms and allusions While reading news, novels, or social media posts, idioms are automatically highlighted. Hover or click to learn their meanings, origins, and related information. Find the highlights in articles Miaob identifies insightful, powerful, and memorable sentences — and points out rhetorical devices like parallelism, contrast, and rhetorical questions. Generate an article highlight share Click "Share discoveries" to generate a shareable link. Friends don't need the extension to see the article's best expressions and original link. Save what you love Collect your favorite idioms and quotes in your Miaoben notebook, and revisit them anytime. Bilingual interface The UI automatically switches between Chinese and English to match your browser language — great for international readers. Perfect for Reading news, novels, and social media articles Learning idioms, allusions, and classic expressions Finding better phrasing for your own writing Sharing the best parts of an article with friends Reading Chinese articles more attentively Simple, quiet, unobtrusive Miaob doesn't cover the article or bombard you with popups. It makes light annotations on the page — open details only when you want to. New content loaded by scrolling is also analyzed automatically. Privacy When checking is enabled, the page text is sent to the Miaob server for real-time analysis. Content you actively share or provide feedback on is saved according to each feature. We don't collect browsing history, bookmarks, or passwords, and we never sell personal information. For details: https://miaob.net/privacy Changelog v0.140.0 Rebuilt the annotation engine with the native CSS Custom Highlight API: no more DOM rewriting, works on React/Vue pages, and restores pages perfectly after clearing. - Faster, more accurate detection with block-level checking — fixes misplaced marks on long or repetitive text. - Smoother full-page checks on large, dynamic pages, with no more duplicate discovery counts. - Fixed annotation offsets for emoji/rare characters and stale results in the report panel. v0.12.0 Fully bilingual UI — panel, popup, annotations, and idiom cards auto-switch between Chinese and English Email verification activation — activate with WeChat QR or email, whichever you prefer New per-page reading stats: character count, unique characters, words, and reading level Offline idiom, quote, and xiehouyu recognition works even when the server is unavailable v0.9.0 QR code added to share modal — scan with mobile to open share page Expression voting — like and interact with great expressions Optimized LLM analysis performance — instant response for cached content Free users get 10 expression analyses per day; unlimited with Miaoben notebook v0.8.2 New expression highlights: golden sentences, contrast, parallelism, rhetorical questions, and numeric impact Reading report supports filtering by type and feedback Article highlight sharing page support Improved dynamic page recognition and duplicate checking v0.7.1 Improved idiom, quote, and xiehouyu annotations New reading report, favorites, and discovery rankings Miaob — making every Chinese article worth reading closely.