Ask HN: Firefox plugin for reading Chinese websites?

#1

Post by climber » Mon, May 04, 2009, 4:23 AM UTC

Is there a firefox plugin where I can place my cursor over an Unicode chinese character, and have it tell me the pinyin / definition of the word?

thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Firefox plugin for reading Chinese websites?

#2

Post by lastkarrde » Mon, May 04, 2009, 5:54 AM UTC

Ubiquity has in place translation for Chinese and other languages.

#3

Post by robin_reala » Mon, May 04, 2009, 9:18 AM UTC

A quick trawl through http://addons.mozilla.org/ threw up these:

I’ve no idea about their respective quality as I don’t speak Chinese, sorry.

#4

Post by trevelyan » Mon, May 04, 2009, 10:06 AM UTC

Yes! We produce one with a dictionary of over 200,000 terms. This is the largest and highest quality dictionary available.

Additional Controls:

1. Highlight new words to add them to your dictionary.

2. Hit "A" to add any word to your online vocabulary list.

3. Hit "D" to change display options (traditional/simplified)

4. Highlight longer passages and hit "G" for the Google translation.