LiuChan

A modern lightweight mouse-over popup dictionary for Chinese! Displays definitions, pinyin and/or zhuyin, customizable tone colors, as well as Cantonese pronunciation (Jyutping). Source: https://github.com/gkovacs/LiuChanFirefox/tree/firefox

LiuChan: Lightweight Popup Dictionary for Chinese

LiuChan is a Firefox add-on that provides a modern lightweight mouse-over popup dictionary for Chinese. It displays definitions, pinyin and/or zhuyin, customizable tone colors, and even includes Cantonese pronunciation in Jyutping.

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By: Geza Kovacs

Daily users: 245

Rating: 4.42

(12)

Version: 1.1.8 (Last updated: 2021-09-25)

Version code: 5298676

Creation date: 2018-09-16

Weekly download count: 7

Firefox on Android: Yes

Permissions:

tabs
storage
contextMenus
notifications
http://*/*

Size: 5.23M

Email: ge*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 6,738 ▲ 81

Other rankings

#281 in Language Support ▲ 1 #78 in definition keyword 32 ▲ 39

Other platforms

LiuChan Chinese Popup Dictionary (v1.1.6)

6,000 4.86

(37)

Not available on Android

Not available on Edge

User reviews

by 全民三退解体中共邪教, 2025-02-17

Still the best among those designed for the same purpose.

by iG0R, 2024-05-03

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