ZhongWenYanWen: Chinese-English Dictionary

Chinese popup dictionary with hover translations, Pinyin, and one-click lookup in WenYanWenGongju classical Chinese tools.

ZhongWenYanWen is a Chinese popup dictionary for reading Chinese anywhere on the web — hover over any Chinese text and get an instant definition, right where you're reading. Built specifically for Classical Chinese readers, it integrates with WenYanWenGongju (wenyanwengongju.com), a companion study tool, to pull from multiple dictionary sources: the Ministry of Education's Revised and Cross-Strait dictionaries, CC-CEDICT, and a curated Study Dictionary tier with example sentences and part-of-speech tags. Features: • Hover popups with tone-colored Pinyin, both Traditional and Simplified scripts, and sense-by-sense definitions • A register toggle to see Classical vs. Modern usage for polyphonic words • Era/Formality scoring so you know if a word sounds archaic, formal, or colloquial • Compound-word breakdowns showing common words a character appears in • One-click lookup in WenYanWenGongju, Hack Chinese, and Skritter • A pinned popup mode and saved word list for building vocabulary as you read • Optional account sign-in (Google or email) to sync your usage across WenYanWenGongju Whether you're reading classical texts, modern articles, or anything in between, ZhongWenYanWen puts a dictionary a hover away.