Zhongzhong: An improved Chinese Dictionary
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Currently the best Chinese popup dictionary. More features. Frequently updated.
The most up-to-date Chinese dictionary extension for Chrome. Easier to use, with more features and more frequently updated than any other.
Hover over the Chinese words to get their pronunciation and meaning.
Turn it on and off by clicking on the extension icon.
Better than Perapera and Zhongwen, with more functionality:
- **Read aloud** with mainland and Taiwan options
- **Hanzi character information**
- **Stroke order animation**
- Cleaner white default theme
- Enable/disable Pinyin, Zhuyin and definitions
- More lookup options
- Bug fixes
Zhongzhong is in active development. Request a feature and we'll consider it for implementation!
https://github.com/PabloRomanH/zhongzhong/issues
For detailed usage instructions and keyboard shortcuts, check out the message that is displayed after turning on the extension.
**Changes**:
1.3.0
- Setting colors for the tones is now also applied to zhuyin.
- Stroke animations are working again.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (February 26 2023.
1.2.9
- Added option to disable Skritter shortcut.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (March 27 2020).
1.2.8
- Fixed shortcuts with Alt.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (November 22 2019).
1.2.7
- Key shortcut to enable/disable the extension can be remapped to any Alt + [key] combination.
- Key shortcuts to open online references can be disabled in the options.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (July 20 2019).
1.2.6
- **Enable and disable the extension with the new key shortcut**: Alt + Z
- Disabling tone colors now also affects Zhuyin.
- Changing font now also affects Zhuyin.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (November 10 2018).
- Several small fixes.
1.2.4
- New option in the options page to disable quick settings key shortcuts for people who don't use them.
- When adjusting the vertical position of the popup (with X/Y keys) the position is now remembered until you disable the extension.
- Dictionary selection is now forgotten when you disable the extension and enable it again. You can still choose the default dictionary in the options page.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (March 21 2018).
1.2.3
- Fixed a bug with some characters with variants.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (Jan 21 2018).
1.2.2
- Fixed Taiwanese read-aloud setting.
- You can now change the color of tones in the options page.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (Dec 26 2017).
1.2.1
- Fixed YellowBridge lookup.
- JuKuu lookup blocked by JuKuu. Disabling it for now.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (Dec 17 2017).
1.2.0
- Added Chinese Cangjie codes in hanzi view.
- Fixed position of stroke order animation.
- Updated Chinese Grammar Wiki keywords.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (Nov 19 2017).
1.1.4
- Added keyboard shortcut guide to the options page.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (May 19 2017).
1.1.3
- Fixed some bugs in Zhuyin (Bopomofo)
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (February 7 2017).
1.1.2
- **Stroke order animations** integrated in the Hanzi information view!
- Can change the default dictionary to the Hanzi information view.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (November 11 2016).
1.1.1
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (October 7 2016).
1.1.0
- Added lookup for hanzi stroke order and the Koohii.com Heisig study tool.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (September 11 2016).
1.0.9
- **Read-aloud!** Press the 'V' key to hear the pronunciation of the word.
1.0.8
- **Hanzi information!** Press the Enter or Shift keys to switch to the new Hanzi information view and back.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (July 17 2016).
1.0.7
- Updated graphics and icons.
1.0.6
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (April 16 2016) with more than 700 added entries and 2600 improved entries.
1.0.5
- Cosmetic improvements to the default white theme.
- Updated to the latest version of the CEDICT Chinese dictionary (November 28).
- Added 2 new online lookup resources: Moedict and Baidu Baike.
1.0.3
- Redesigned options page. Now configuration is applied instantly.
- Added option to choose between 3 different fonts: serif, sans-serif and handwritten.
- For old or alternative characters: Now their definitions are showed instead of showing only a rather unuseful message "variant of ...".
1.0.2
- Added option to disable showing definitions.
- Added keybindings to toggle showing Pinyin, Zhuyin and definitions.
- New default white theme.
- Option to show only traditional or simplified characters.
1.0.1
- Updated to last CEDICT Chinese dictionary version.
- Added option to disable Pinyin.
Latest reviews
- Asaph Cheng Yao
- I hope support will be continued. Btw there's a pop-up on Chinese text in Wikipedia that's blocking your pop-up.
- Flan
- Read aloud is not accurate but otherwise perfect!
- Vitaly_1337_
- But how do I find the stroke order anumation?? It's counter intuitive
- Valerie Conklin
- This is such a great extension! Snappy fast and I love that I can enable Zhuyin-only and a Taiwanese voice. My only feature request: I would love if it had a monolingual Chinese-Chinese dictionary option as well, for those of us masochistic enough to want to try target-language-ONLY lookups. ;) The Moedict extension has this and that's the only thing missing here.
- MeiAn Huang
- It really IS the best free pop-up Chinese dictionary in the Chrome store. As an int-adv Chinese learner, I can't live without it! Very underrated. Able to, with a quick hover, see the meanings and pronunciations of compound words and idioms, as well as each individual word or character in the phrase. If you're still learning characters, the shift+hover feature is a great reference tool. The sound works for me, although with a delay, but the voice is very nice.
- MeiAn Huang
- It really IS the best free pop-up Chinese dictionary in the Chrome store. As an int-adv Chinese learner, I can't live without it! Very underrated. Able to, with a quick hover, see the meanings and pronunciations of compound words and idioms, as well as each individual word or character in the phrase. If you're still learning characters, the shift+hover feature is a great reference tool. The sound works for me, although with a delay, but the voice is very nice.
- OvO
- This makes reading so much easier and really helped motivate me to read chinese novels to improve my chinese! Thanks to the genius that created this extention I am forever gratful!
- OvO
- This makes reading so much easier and really helped motivate me to read chinese novels to improve my chinese! Thanks to the genius that created this extention I am forever gratful!
- Hakan Alpay
- character stroke order animation not working rn
- Hakan Alpay
- character stroke order animation not working rn
- ikhwan
- very helpful... been wondering in years about an app like this... thankfully, I just discovered this extension today... idk, should I be happy because found this app? or should I be sad because not discovered it years ago? but at last, this is [ a s t o u n d i n g ] [ a s t o n i s h i n g]
- ikhwan
- very helpful... been wondering in years about an app like this... thankfully, I just discovered this extension today... idk, should I be happy because found this app? or should I be sad because not discovered it years ago? but at last, this is [ a s t o u n d i n g ] [ a s t o n i s h i n g]
- Teksong Eap
- The most excellent extension for reading chinese I have ever found, a must have, also quite customizable
- Teksong Eap
- The most excellent extension for reading chinese I have ever found, a must have, also quite customizable
- jenny4444js
- Awesome!! However, I don't think the keyboard shortcut to play the text-to-speech is working.
- jenny4444js
- Awesome!! However, I don't think the keyboard shortcut to play the text-to-speech is working.
- Muhammed Mostafa
- The read aloud is incorrect most of the time please fix it ,other than that the extension is great.
- Muhammed Mostafa
- The read aloud is incorrect most of the time please fix it ,other than that the extension is great.
- Mini Duos Samsung
- Great add-on! Thanks to the authors for this outstanding work. All is working smooth. Chose it finally for its balance of options available among other very close and remarkable alternatives. I have a (bug?) feature suggestion: when color tones are set, pinyin syllables display in new user colors. But zhuyin stays the same and is displayed in default colors. Also, can this be made, that not only pinyin/zhuyin syllables, but also hanzi characters themselves are displayed in different colors, based on their tone, i.e. the same color scheme as for pinyin (default or user defined)?
- Mini Duos Samsung
- Great add-on! Thanks to the authors for this outstanding work. All is working smooth. Chose it finally for its balance of options available among other very close and remarkable alternatives. I have a (bug?) feature suggestion: when color tones are set, pinyin syllables display in new user colors. But zhuyin stays the same and is displayed in default colors. Also, can this be made, that not only pinyin/zhuyin syllables, but also hanzi characters themselves are displayed in different colors, based on their tone, i.e. the same color scheme as for pinyin (default or user defined)?
- Awetewtewtew Awetwetw
- please add an option to save the sentences and enable export options like on readlang.com, vocabtracker, rikaisama
- Awetewtewtew Awetwetw
- please add an option to save the sentences and enable export options like on readlang.com, vocabtracker, rikaisama
- Angela K
- thanks. can you also save the sentence swhen you save the word to the wordlist?
- Angela K
- thanks. can you also save the sentence swhen you save the word to the wordlist?
- Jennifer Woo
- Amazing app with a live strokes gif! A perfect for any chinese learner. Would love one for Korean!
- Jennifer Woo
- Amazing app with a live strokes gif! A perfect for any chinese learner. Would love one for Korean!
- Amatsu
- Good extension but no read aloud feature when i press V
- Amatsu
- Good extension but no read aloud feature when i press V
- ligiaung369 Jaw
- Can someone tell me if I can use this on my Google Slides?0r Google documents.
- ligiaung369 Jaw
- Can someone tell me if I can use this on my Google Slides?0r Google documents.
- Kenneth H
- it is an amazing extention, very very useful wehn you dont wanna constantly search things up
- Kenneth H
- it is an amazing extention, very very useful wehn you dont wanna constantly search things up
- Hak Han Koh (Han)
- It's good but please remove the keyboard shortcut buttons. I keep activating/deactivating them accidentally and it's really annoying. Update: The keyboard shortcut thing has been fixed! Thanks! But now it doesn't work with multiple characters in Google Docs :/
- Hak Han Koh (Han)
- It's good but please remove the keyboard shortcut buttons. I keep activating/deactivating them accidentally and it's really annoying. Update: The keyboard shortcut thing has been fixed! Thanks! But now it doesn't work with multiple characters in Google Docs :/
- Lee Silver
- Great Extension! Best, I ever used, Finally I choose this after test. Even support voice with 'out loud' extension.
- Lee Silver
- Great Extension! Best, I ever used, Finally I choose this after test. Even support voice with 'out loud' extension.
- Asaph Cheng Yao
- Underated
- wallace
- Best Extension! I changed to this ext. from similar popup ext. I do like the speak aloud option but I do hope I can hear voice w/o pressing "v", too. I saw a new dictionary "Koohii" added, but how come Japanese Kanji dictionary..., I hope u add one like Chinese-English dictionary "TrainChinese" or "Pleco" soon.
- wallace
- Best Extension! I changed to this ext. from similar popup ext. I do like the speak aloud option but I do hope I can hear voice w/o pressing "v", too. I saw a new dictionary "Koohii" added, but how come Japanese Kanji dictionary..., I hope u add one like Chinese-English dictionary "TrainChinese" or "Pleco" soon.
- Rex Gao
- Great useful extension, but could you add a manual font selector? I prefer kaishu/regular script but the option for handwritten doesn't work for me
- Rex Gao
- Great useful extension, but could you add a manual font selector? I prefer kaishu/regular script but the option for handwritten doesn't work for me
- Cedric (kuyaC)
- Would be cool if you added the option to show cantonese pronounciation. Alt+W often doesn't work to turn it off, especially during duolingo lessons. Often the character to the right of the one my mouse is over gets explained (very common in duolingo lessons again), or a character gets explained when my mouse isn't currently hovering above one. The word list doesn't synchronize across my devices. Edit: Thanks for the response
- Cedric (kuyaC)
- Would be cool if you added the option to show cantonese pronounciation. Alt+W often doesn't work to turn it off, especially during duolingo lessons. Often the character to the right of the one my mouse is over gets explained (very common in duolingo lessons again), or a character gets explained when my mouse isn't currently hovering above one. The word list doesn't synchronize across my devices. Edit: Thanks for the response
- Mark Sisley
- Great extension. Any chance you could add the HSK level for full words? Char dict has it but I'd like full word HSK levels
- Mark Sisley
- Great extension. Any chance you could add the HSK level for full words? Char dict has it but I'd like full word HSK levels
- Hien Minh
- This app helps me alot in study chinese. But I can't use it in google docs
- Hien Minh
- This app helps me alot in study chinese. But I can't use it in google docs
- Nuntaporn Sridumrong
- love this app
- Nuntaporn Sridumrong
- love this app
- Tetsuo Kyoda
- Greatest application in the mouse-over Chinese dictionaries!!