Cantonese Popup Dictionary Chrome Extension
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Cantonese-English pop-up dictionary for Chrome. Simply hover the mouse pointer over Chinese words to have both the definition and pronunciation displayed via a pop-up window in real-time. Pronunciation is displayed as Yale romanisation with tone numbers (other configurations are not supported at this time).
This plugin is based on the "Perapera Chinese Popup Dictionary" plugin for Chrome (which is in turn based on several other projects including Rikaikun, Rikaichan and RikaiXUL), with the dictionary replaced with data from Cantonese CEDICT project. The original copyright notices remain intact within the package source files. I take no credit for this; it was a quick and easy hack using existing resources.
Credits:
Perapera Chinese Popup Dictionary - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hlcddplhfenagbaipfjhhcjmebhkkaif
Cantonese CEDICT project - https://writecantonese8.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/cantonese-cedict-project
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- Very useful
- Works awesome
- Fantastic app
- Excellent extension
- Handy for learners of hanzi based languages
- Uses a non-standard romanization system
- Definitions may be incorrect, potentially pulling from a Mandarin dictionary
- Does not work on local file URLs
- Lacks Text-to-Speech (TTS) functionality
- Wish it used an established romanization system (Jyutping)
- Very helpful
- Hope it will remain available/updated
- Unique with no equivalent options
- Lifesaver for learners
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Cantonese Popup Dictionary has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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