Chinese Personalized Colors

Color code individual Chinese characters
What is Chinese Personalized Colors?
Chinese Personalized Colors is a Chrome extension that color codes individual Chinese characters based on their tone. It supports over 5000 characters and includes a recent version of the CEDICT Chinese English dictionary.

Extension stats

Users: 60 ▲ 5
Rating: 3.40 (5)
Version: 0.0.0.3 (Last updated: 2017-12-11)
Creation date: 2017-12-10
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • http://*/*
Size: 4.85M

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Extension summary

Chinese Personalized Colors - A Tone Colorizer

Version 0.0.0.3

NOTE: This Chrome extension is in beta. There may be bugs and will likely be performance degradation.

Copyright (C) 2017 Andrew Alexander

Colorizes Chinese characters based on tone.

Currently this extension is very new and relatively untested. Site load times are increased and there are likely to be some bugs.

  • Supports over 5000 characters
  • Includes a recent version of the widely used CEDICT Chinese English dictionary.

User reviews

At the moment it doesn't seme to work at all but i might keep an eye out for it and something similar. Sounds like a good idea really. No pressure though i understand your just one guy
by Niall Mc Evoy, 2023-01-18

Well, it doesn't work at all! So, I guess, I can't rate it better at this moment.
by Roman Bolshakov, 2020-03-06

Great idea, note that this seems to assign the wrong tone colors for a ton of words - for example, 为什么 is colored orange orange red whereas it should be wei4shen2me5 (blue orange grey). It's also slow as molasses, to the point of being unusable on large pages. Hope there's not some O(n) algorithm running over the entire dictionary for every character or something. I wonder if maybe a different way could be used to indicate the tone color rather than coloring the whole thing - maybe put a colored underline under the word or so. Right now it makes reading large texts quite painful for the eyes.
by Geza Kovacs, 2018-03-28
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Chinese Personalized Colors requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Chinese Personalized Colors has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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