ChineseDict – Chinese–English Dictionary

Hold Shift and point at Chinese text for pinyin, English meanings and two voices. 120,872 entries stored in the extension.

Hold Shift and point at a Chinese word on any web page. A small card shows the word, its pinyin with tone colours, the English meanings, the traditional form and the HSK level. A link opens the full entry on chinesedict.com. What is in it - 120,872 entries, all stored inside the extension. Looking a word up does not use the network. - Longest match from the character under the pointer: 北京大学 is one word, not 北京 + 大学, even when the page splits it across styles. - Traditional characters are looked up too: 學習 shows 学习. - Words with more than one reading show each one, up to three: 行 shows xíng and háng. - Female and male recordings of each reading. They play on sites with a strict Content Security Policy, such as GitHub, because the extension plays the audio itself instead of the page. - The first lookup of a character takes 2 to 4 ms; after that, under 0.1 ms (measured in Chrome). Settings - Hold Shift + hover, or hover only - Popup delay: 150, 300, 500 or 800 ms - Light, dark or system theme; three text sizes - Turn lookup off for one site, or everywhere Where it does not work Browser pages and extension stores, the PDF viewer built into the browser, text drawn on a canvas (Google Docs), text in images, and text inside input boxes. Privacy No account. The extension does not collect or send what you read; settings stay in your browser. The only request it makes is for a recording on cdn.chinesedict.com, when you press a play button. Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 HSK levels: complete-hsk-vocabulary, MIT Extension code: All Rights Reserved