Zhongwen: The Popular Chinese Learning Tool

This extension lets you translate Chinese charaters on a web page by hovering over them with the mouse. It also allows you to add Chinese words to an internal word list for studying them later. It also contains links to the Chinese Grammar Wiki.

In order to activate this extension, click on the extension icon in the upper right-hand corner of your Firefox browser. If activated, you will see a red label displaying the word "On". In order to turn it off, just click on the icon again.

Highlights

• Supports both traditional and simplified characters.
• Includes a recent version of the widely used CEDICT Chinese English dictionary.
• Displays Hanyu Pinyin along both the simplified and traditional characters, however only showing either simplified or traditional characters can be configured as an option.
• 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