LiuChan Chinese Popup Dictionary

Name: LiuChan Chinese Popup Dictionary
Rating: 4.864864864864865 (37 reviews)
Author: Aldert Vaandering

A modern lightweight mouse-over popup dictionary for Chinese!

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LiuChan Chinese Popup Dictionary is a lightweight Chrome extension designed for fluent and easy Chinese language learning. Simply hover your mouse over Chinese characters on any webpage to instantly view dictionary definitions, making reading Chinese smooth and efficient.

Key features include synchronized settings across devices, built-in text-to-speech in Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Cantonese dialects, fuzzy search accessible via Chrome's omnibox, and multiple theme presets with customizable color tones. It supports text input without interfering with typing and offers a notepad feature for quick notes. LiuChan focuses on performance and user experience, continuously adding improvements and upcoming features like Anki wordlist integration and enhanced Cantonese support. It’s perfect for learners and enthusiasts seeking a modern, fast, and customizable Chinese dictionary tool within their browser.

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Version:

1.1.6 Last updated: 2021-12-19

Creation date:

2019-03-08

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Permissions:

storage
tts
contextMenus
notifications
http://*/*

Size:

6.42M

Email:

pa*****@gmail.com

Full description:

See detailed description ⏷

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 14,101 ▼ 132

Other rankings

#879 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 3

#41 in popup keyword 52 ▼ 1

#62 in dictionary keyword 52 ▼ 2

#98 in hover keyword 25 ▼ 3

#182 in input keyword 36 ▼ 13

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LiuChan (v1.1.8)

242 4.42

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User reviews

LiuChan Chinese Popup Dictionary is praised for its ease of use, reliability, and wide range of customizable features beneficial for learning Chinese. Users appreciate its fast performance and functional text-to-speech. Common issues include missing definitions for some characters, lack of auto-start on browser launch, minor UI inconveniences such as font size and popup overlap, as well as some phonetic inaccuracies and color conflicts with dark mode extensions.

Pros

Easy to use and install; works instantly and reliably.
Highly customizable with options like custom character and tone colors.
Lightweight and faster than similar extensions; performs well out of the box.
Includes useful features such as text-to-speech (TTS) functionality that works consistently.
Supports learning with hover pop-up translations and effective for Chinese language learners.

Cons

Occasional missing English meanings for some simple Chinese characters.
No option to auto-start the extension when Chrome is opened, requiring manual activation each time.
Some small UI issues like popup size/font being small, and overlapping tooltips when hovering over hyperlinks.
Occasional errors in Zhuyin phonetic annotations and missing entries for common characters.
Color issues when used alongside Dark Reader extension (dark mode).

Recent reviews

这个软件真的太棒了. 好容易使用啊.太好了!!!

Jesus Christ Is Lord, 2025-01-19

Great tool for learning new characters

Anna Morales, 2024-07-02

Great tool! The only problem is that the colors are messing up with Dark Reader extension. Please, fix that if you can.

Den Vortex, 2024-03-09

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Extension safety

Risk impact

LiuChan Chinese Popup Dictionary requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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LiuChan Chinese Popup Dictionary has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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