Chinese words separator

Read more, hover less using the extension's sentence mode dictionary Easily change the hanzi's size and font Configurable, 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 Promotion: Let's achieve 824 Chinese language learners use CWS on Google Chrome, then will make CWS free on Apple platform (iPhone, iPad, Mac Safari) for 8 days and 24 hours. 9 days to be precise. 加油！ 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: 8.24.46.0: UPDATE: Dictionary, new words 8.24.45.2: FIX: Corrected mobile browser detection 8.24.45.1: FIX: When clicking or tapping the pinyin or zhuyin in the dictionary, some words were not pronounced correctly. This is fixed now. Note: Android's text-to-speech has limitation, words with multiple pronunciations has one pronunciation only, e.g., 会 (huì, kuài) is just pronounced huì 8.24.45.0: UPDATE: Improved segmentation of phrases and idioms 8.24.44.1: FIX: Word dictionary keeps on finding Chinese words even if the word is not viewable by the user. This is fixed now 8.24.44.0: UPDATE: When the compound word have both traditional and simplified, the character(s) that are different are emphasized (dark gray), while the similar character(s) are de-emphasized (light gray) UPDATE: Calligraphy printer, compound words have one more set of row (11 boxes) that can be practiced on 8.24.43.0: NEW: Calligraphy printer can now print compound words UPDATE: Calligraphy printer now remembers the last printed text UPDATE: Optimized loading of characters in calligraphy printer 8.24.42.0: NEW: Switch between the voice types (Mainland China and Taiwan) by using right-click or long-press on the speaker icon FIX: Rotating colors and HSK-based colors were not effecting on some sites. This is fixed now, rotating colors and HSK-based colors are effecting to those sites FIX: Corrected layout for Top occurring words and HSK Percentages 8.24.41.0: UPDATE: Advance to next word (default keyboard shortcut 'a') no longer skips colloquial/slang words (e.g., AA制, 3Q, T恤) UPDATE: Dictionary, new words 8.24.40.2: FIX: Scrolling in the sentence dictionary was closing the dictionary. Fixed now 8.24.40.1: FIX: The advance to next word (default keyboard shortcut 'a') functionality was not fully working across paragraphs. It's fully working now FIX: Closing the sidebar was not turning off the automatic Bing translation. Fixed now FIX: Scrolling in *Read from sources other than web or offline* was not removing the dictionary. This is fixed now, dictionary is removed whenever the page is scrolled 8.24.40.0: NEW: Automatic translation for Bing and DeepL translators. Right mouse click (or long-press) the Bing or DeepL icons. For best result, use your operating system's Split Screen capability, making the translation tab to act like a sidebar to your main browser window Windows split screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LWFmLe3JS4 macOS split screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYpTFA1MBtY UPDATE: Tag-less word dictionary will just automatically reload the current tab. Other tabs need to be manually reloaded FIX: Overlay text on Google Translate's textarea was pinyinized and colorized. Fixed now, CWS is not effecting on overlay text anymore FIX: New line in text was not effecting on *Read from sources other than web or offline* functionality. It's effecting now 8.24.39.0: UPDATE: Made offline reading page compatible with mobile browser 8.24.38.0: NEW: Reading page for Chinese text that is created by the language learner, or pasted from sources other than web or offline 8.24.37.2: FIX: Some site affected the background color of the word in the dictionary. This is fixed now 8.24.37.1: FIX: Some words that are just entirely alphabet or number were wrongly included in color and hanzi size. This is fixed now 8.24.37.0: NEW: Easily switch between sentence and word dictionary using the dictionary icon NEW: Switch to character dictionary by using right click on the dictionary icon, or long-press the dictionary icon when using phone or tablet, or press letter 'x' UPDATE: No more clipboard icon in the dictionary. To copy definitions to clipboard, use right click on the heart icon instead, or long-press when using phone or tablet, or press letter 'c' 8.24.36.1: FIX: Some words that are just entirely alphabet or number were included in the dictionary. This is fixed now, those words are now excluded from the dictionary FIX: Pop-up dictionary's layout was affected on a site. This is fixed now 8.24.36.0: NEW: Made rotating colors work on Language Reactor website FIX: Converting from traditional <-> simplified in websites with custom formatter was truncating the characters. This is fixed now, characters are no longer truncated and are properly converted 8.24.35.0: NEW: For websites where their original hanzi size is large and/or their original hànzi size breaks the page layout when the hanzi's pinyin is shown, the hanzi size can be made smaller than its original size 8.24.34.0: UPDATE: Dictionary's icons now hides when the language learner scroll the definitions 8.24.33.0: UPDATE: Optimization on tags creation FIX: A site affected the dictionary's layout. This is fixed now, the dictionary's CSS specificity is strengthened -------------- 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 179,552 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 Note: When the sentence dictionary is stuck in one location, press the Alt key (option key on Mac) to unstuck the dictionary; this glitch does not happen very often, still analyzing the cause of it