Chinese words separator Chrome Extension

Color,space,pinyin,zhuyin/bopomofo,tone,HSK for chinese words. Dictionary: read more, hover less. Traditional<->Simplified converter.
Read more, hover less using the extension's sentence mode dictionary

Easily change the hanzi's size and font

Customizable and easy to use

See functionalities in pictures:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/npuqf6/chinese_words_separator/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/oj7djv/chinese_words_separator_80_updates/

see complete functionalities at: https://chinese-words-separator.github.io/

To use chinese words separator on iPhone or iPad: https://apps.apple.com/app/chinese-words-separator/id1598790017

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To make cws work on Android phone or tablet, download kiwi browser first, then install the extension.

Kiwi Browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser

Recent changes:

8.24.84.540:

UPDATE: Dictionary, new words

OPTIMIZATION: Prevent loading a file twice

FIX: Browser auto-translate notification was not working on video sites if hoverless video dictionary sidebar is not activated. This is fixed now

8.24.84.530:

UPDATE: Reloading the page when effecting pinyin/size/colors from tag-less mode in hoverless video dictionary, is not required anymore

FIX: showing marked learned words in Youdao's further lookup was not working. This is fixed now

8.24.84.520:

UPDATE: Notification is now working in fullscreen mode

UPDATE: Word (two or more characters) that have no definition, now just automatically shows all of its characters' definitions

8.24.84.510:

NEW: video speed adjustment. If you can learn it slow, you can learn it fast

UPDATE: Can now use the dictionary on native dropdown

FIX: Read-aloud should not function in Recall

8.24.84.500:

OPTIMIZATION: prevents calling read-aloud twice

UPDATE: allow marking learned on Recall and Rewrite

FIX: Duplicate notifications was showing in iQIYI. This is fixed now

8.24.84.490: NEW: Browser auto-translate on notifications. This can be activated by right-clicking the dictionary's google translator icon. After activating the auto-translate, right-click the page and choose Translate to English. Auto-translating on notifications can be used on hoverless video dictionary too

8.24.84.481: FIX: Rotating colors and tone marks were appearing on Rewrite. This is fixed now

8.24.84.480:

UPDATE: Video subtitle, improved subtitle's english annotations

UPDATE: Rewrite, dictionary can now be used on each character

UPDATE: Dictionary, cleaned up superfluous expressions so that more words can be identified to their hsk level

UPDATE: Dictionary, new words

8.24.84.470:

NEW: practice writing chinese characters in Rewrite

UPDATE: improved english annotation

8.24.84.460:

UPDATE: Separable verb-object where the object comes before the verb is now recognized too, e.g., 这个忙我帮定了. 忙(máng, object) comes before 帮(bāng, verb)

UPDATE: Cleaned up superfluous expressions so that more words can be identified to their HSK level

8.24.84.450:

UPDATE: Dictionary, new words

FIX: YouTube, corrected centering of subtitles on Default view, subtitles does not get cropped anymore

FIX: iQIYI, multiple subtitles now appears on automatic video dictionary's sidebar

FIX: iQIYI, subtitle's width is too narrow, causing the subtitle to become multi-lines. This is fixed now, longer subtitle can now fit in one line

FIX: iQIYI, Font Edges of Default and Border are not aligned to actual subtitles. For the meantime, disable the Font Edges of Default and Border while iQIYI is not yet making these two font edges be aligned to actual subtitles

FIX: Garden-path words from three syllables should be detected. This is fixed now

FIX: Dictionary was showing null. This is fixed now

8.24.84.440:

UPDATE: Added option in automatic video dictionary for enabling/disabling auto-pause

FIX: Mouse have to be re-moved sometimes so that CWS can detect the words, this is fixed now; re-moving the mouse is no longer required

8.24.84.430: UPDATE: Improved segmentation so that words' HSK level can be identified

8.24.84.420:

UPDATE: Automatic video dictionary is now supported on iQIYI

UPDATE: Word is read aloud when pinyin/zhuyin is clicked/tapped on Recall

UPDATE: Dictionary, new words

FIX: iQIYI, pop-up dictionary now works even if the video is in fullscreen mode

8.24.84.411: FIX: corrected parenthesis parser for English annotation

8.24.84.410:

UPDATE: Improved English annotation to subtitles

FIX: Corrected garden-path detection in subtitles

8.24.84.402:

FIX: On DeepL, the chinese input should not be pinyinized when clicking the English translation. This is fixed now

FIX: hsk level 7 was not included in sentence/phrase's metadata. It's included now

FIX: made options screen adjust to the device's size

FIX: Character dictionary was leaving behind multiple pop-up dictionaries when the mouse is being moved fast. This is fixed now

8.24.84.401: FIX: setting maximum height for the dictionary was not effecting on inline sentence dictionary. This is fixed now

8.24.84.400:

UPDATE: Dictionary, new words

FIX: Closing the video sidebar should not remove the English annotation

FIX: Changing Recall's romanization between pinyin and ㄓㄨˋㄧㄣ/bopomofo should not refresh the list

8.24.84.301: FIX: Immersion weaknesses was not showing in Options screen. This is fixed now

8.24.84.300: UPDATE: Can now choose between pinyin and zhuyin in Recall

8.24.84.290:

UPDATE: Can now set to include/exclude traditional on Recall

UPDATE: Page, more separable verbs that can be detected

UPDATE: Dictionary, new words

FIX: Some subtitles carry over to next subtitles. This is fixed now

8.24.84.280:

NEW: Dictionary, link to vocabulary notes from AllSet Learning's chinese vocabulary wiki. This can be changed in Options screen

FIX: Should jump to video link's timestamp even if the video dictionary sidebar is not loaded

FIX: Corrected definition delimiters

8.24.84.270:

UPDATE: Optimized text replacement

UPDATE: Sentence/phrase's average hsk level is shown in the video dictionary's sidebar

FIX: Corrected HSK percentage computation

8.24.84.260:

UPDATE: Dictionary, new words

FIX: removed dangling semicolons in the dictionary

FIX: Corrected the '+' in DeepL, made it space ' '

8.24.84.250:

UPDATE: English annotation now appears in the subtitles by default. This can be changed in the video dictionary's sidebar

UPDATE: English annotation now appears under the subtitle's hanzi by default, so the language learner will focus first on hanzi and pinyin. This can be changed in the video dictionary's sidebar

UPDATE: Improved garden-path detection

FIX: corrected separable verb's bracket in the dictionary

8.24.84.240: UPDATE: Automatic video dictionary now works on WeTV too

8.24.84.232: FIX: Corrected garden-path's separation

8.24.84.231: FIX: corrected dictionary location when hovering the mouse cursor in the textbox's placeholder

8.24.84.230:

UPDATE: Improved garden-path correction, e.g., 和面膜 is not separated as 和面 膜 anymore, it's now separated as 和 面膜; 把手机关 is not separated as 把手 机关 anymore, it's now separated as 把 手机 关

UPDATE: Recognizes more separable verbs

8.24.84.220:

UPDATE: Optimized processing of separable verbs

FIX: Netflix's english annotations was flickering. Fixed now, no more flickering

8.24.84.210:

NEW: Separable verbs are shown in brackets. Can be changed in Options screen

UPDATE: Optimized tone annotations

8.24.84.201:

FIX: Make the queued hanzi appear first before resetting the action button to *I knew this*

FIX: Corrected dictionary location when highlighting text from text boxes

FIX: Don't show dictionary when hoverless video dictionary sidebar is not visible

8.24.84.200: NEW: ☀️ Recall. practice recalling words and phrases with Recall functionality

8.24.84.190:

UPDATE: Video now auto-pause/resume upon hovering the mouse cursor in/out of the dictionary

FIX: cws icon should not be shown when navigating the unlearned word and page's HSK percentages

8.24.84.180:

UPDATE: Video dictionary's height is now set to maximum. Watch more, hover less

UPDATE: Dictionary can now be set to use maximum height, can set this in Options screen

FIX: Bing translator should be shown as pop-up window (instead of sidebar) when video dictionary is active

8.24.84.172:

FIX: youtube video preview should not occupy the whole screen

FIX: YouTube subtitle should not have a wide translucent background

8.24.84.171:

FIX: When video dictionary is activated twice, it was clearing the settings on the sidebar. Fixed now

FIX: CWS was not effecting on some sites. Fixed now

8.24.84.170:

UPDATE: Improved segmentation and subtitle

FIX: two line subtitles in YouTube, only the second one was showing on video dictionary. This is working now, all subtitles are now showing on video dictionary

8.24.84.161:

FIX: Automatic video dictionary for YouTube is showing even when on fullscreen, should not be shown when on fullscreen

FIX: Dictionary is disappearing when definition is scrolled into view. Fixed

8.24.84.160:

NEW: Automatic video dictionary for Viki

UPDATE: Improved segmentation

8.24.84.150:

NEW: automatic dictionary for Netflix now works on YouTube too

UPDATE: Improved English annotation for Netflix

8.24.84.140:

UPDATE: Improved the algorithm of segmentation

UPDATE: Overriding segmentations will prompt for confirmation first

FIX: English annotation for Netflix should follow the Guide's font on Options screen

8.24.84.130:

NEW: It's now easier to add segmentation overrides, it can now be done on the page itself. Just right-click the word(s) and select the needed segmentation to override

UPDATE: Dictionary, new words

FIX: English annotation on netflix displayed asterisk due to incorrect loading of conversion (traditional <-> simplified) list. This is fixed now

8.24.84.120:

NEW: Functionality to save netflix's subtitle (and time) to learning tracking sheet

UPDATE: Can now hide netflix english words annotation by setting the English words' length limitation to zero

8.24.84.110:

NEW: Netflix-embedded CWS dictionary

UPDATE: Dictionary, new words

FIX: Dictionary for word, the pop-up dictionary should cover the page's pinyin so as to prevent cross-remembering other words' pinyin when focusing on one word/phrase. This is fixed now

8.24.84.101: FIX: Pop-up dictionary was covering the pinyin annotations when text is manually selected. This is fixed now

8.24.84.100:

NEW: Can now save multiple offline reading

UPDATE: optimized text replacer of Traditional <-> Simplified converter

8.24.84.0:

UPDATE: removed 12 seconds limitation of text-to-speech, browser can now handle more than 15 seconds

UPDATE: Improved segmentation of multi-words

FIX: Dictionary was not showing in Options screen. It's showing now

8.24.83.1: FIX: Made the color of pipe symbol lighter to prevent blending with words as letter l

8.24.83.0: UPDATE: Improved segmentation of proper nouns

8.24.82.0: NEW: Dictionary, when using one line definition, there's an indicator in pinyin if the hanzi character/word have two or more meanings/pronunciations

8.24.81.1: FIX: Dictionary, corrected repositioning and resizing logic

8.24.81.0: NEW: Dictionary, can now be configured to display just one line definition for each word. Because 和 have too many definitions, that's all :-)

Nope not just that, language learners can also use this functionality to zip through the sentences they are reading or if the learner's vocabulary level is advanced enough. One line definition can also be activated by selecting the Advanced level

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HOW TO USE:

Simply go to a web page in Chinese, by default the words are separated by colors. Then to use the dictionary, hover over the characters with your mouse to see a window open up showing the english translation along with the pinyin romanization

Functionalities of words separator:

- Separate words by using color and/or space

- See guides above/under the words, i.e., pinyin, zhuyin/bopomofo, HSK level, tone marks

- Sentence can be copied with spaces between words

- mark learned words by 1. clicking the words 2. inputting pinyin 3. speaking the word on microphone

- Color aid to identify the word's HSK level or tones

- Hanzi and pinyin's size and font can be changed

- Language learners can customize their own colors for dark mode and light mode

- Read aloud (text-to-speech) the hovered word or sentence

- easily look up example sentences from a dozen of high-quality Chinese sentence mining sites using single key shortcut (1 to 9 by default). Language learners can add more sentence mining sites

- Can be used to proofread text that are being typed in text boxes. Can also be used to proofread text that are being typed in email editor, word processor, etc, as long they are HTML-based and not canvas-based tech

- Garden-path words are enclosed in boxes

Reference: https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/17071/how-to-determine-the-end-of-words/17074#17074

- After a word is marked as known/learned, the notification box shows the count of the words you knew/learned already

Functionalities of dictionary:

- Look up from over 181,000 words, proper nouns, idioms, expressions, colloquial/slang (e.g., AA制, 3Q, T恤) while reading chinese web sites just by hovering the mouse cursor on the word

- Dictionary is set to sentence mode by default. All the words in the sentence are shown in the dictionary. Read more, hover less

- sentence dictionary shows all the garden-path words

- Copy dictionary's definitions via clipboard icon or by pressing letter 'c'

- On word mode dictionary, pressing letter 'a' will move the focus to next word, pressing letter 'z' will move the focus to next character, to go back to preceding character press 'A'

- character mode dictionary shows the animation and steps for hanzi's strokes. Character mode dictionary can be activated by pressing letter 'x'

Functionalities (other):

- Translate the focused sentence or word with Google, DeepL, or Bing

- Convert the page/clipboard between Traditional <-> Simplified instantly. Can also revert the page back to original characters, some sites have mix of traditional and simplified characters

- See the learned words and high frequency words in Statistics screen. word frequency statistics can help the language learners know the words to prioritize learning or mine sentences with

- With _HSK Percentages of this page_ functionality, you can browse sentences by HSK percentages. This can help you in identifying if the sentence you are reading is within your language skill level

- shows top 10 occurring words you haven't learned yet. The list is displayed at the sidebar

- Shows the count of all words you already learned, and by each HSK level

- Print calligraphy

- predefined five level modes: Beginner, Lower-intermediate, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert

- Notes at the sidebar

- Words or sentences to remember can be added to your learning tracking sheet (your Google Sheet)

- Can be used on smartphones and tablets. Install extensions-supporting browser, e.g., Kiwi browser app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser

- On smartphones and tablets, the extension can use pleco for further dictionary lookup. After installing kiwi and the extension, then install Pleco:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pleco.chinesesystem

- All keyboard shortcuts are configurable

How to install Chinese words separator chrome extension in chrome Browser

You can Follow the below Step By Step procedure to install the Chinese words separator Chrome Extension to your Chrome Web browser.

• Step 1: Go to the Chrome webstore https://chrome.google.com/webstore or download the extension Chinese words separator Chrome Extension Download from https://pluginsaddonsextensions.com
• Step 2: Now search for the Chinese words separator in Chrome Webstore Search and click on the search button.
• Step 3: click on the Chinese words separator Chrome Extension Link
• Step 4: in the next page click on the Add to Chrome button to Download and Install the Chinese words separator extension for your Chrome Web browser .