Chinese words separator

Read more, hover less using the extension's sentence mode dictionary Easily change the hanzi's size and font Customizable and easy to use See functionalities in pictures: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/npuqf6/chinese_words_separator/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/oj7djv/chinese_words_separator_80_updates/ See complete functionalities at: https://chinese-words-separator.github.io/ To use Chinese words separator on iPhone or iPad: https://apps.apple.com/app/chinese-words-separator/id1598790017 Promotion: Let's achieve 824 Chinese language learners use CWS on Google Chrome, then will make CWS free on Apple platform (iPhone, iPad, Mac Safari) for 8 days and 24 hours. 9 days to be precise. 加油！ To make CWS work on Android phone or tablet, download Kiwi Browser first, then install the extension. Kiwi Browser: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser Recent changes: 8.24.84.230: UPDATE: Improved garden-path correction, e.g., 和面膜 is not separated as 和面 膜 anymore, it's now separated as 和 面膜; 把手机关 is not separated as 把手 机关 anymore, it's now separated as 把 手机 关 UPDATE: Recognizes more separable verbs 8.24.84.220: UPDATE: Optimized processing of separable verbs FIX: Netflix's English annotations was flickering. Fixed now, no more flickering 8.24.84.210: NEW: Separable verbs are shown in brackets. Can be changed in Options screen UPDATE: Optimized tone annotations 8.24.84.201: FIX: Make the queued hanzi appear first before resetting the action button to *I knew this* FIX: Corrected dictionary location when highlighting text from text boxes FIX: Don't show dictionary when hoverless video dictionary sidebar is not visible 8.24.84.200: NEW: ☀️ Recall. Practice recalling words and phrases with Recall functionality 8.24.84.190: UPDATE: Video now auto-pause/resume upon hovering the mouse cursor in/out of the dictionary FIX: CWS icon should not be shown when navigating the unlearned word and page's HSK percentages 8.24.84.180: UPDATE: Video dictionary's height is now set to maximum. Watch more, hover less UPDATE: Dictionary can now be set to use maximum height, can set this in Options screen FIX: Bing translator should be shown as pop-up window (instead of sidebar) when video dictionary is active 8.24.84.172: FIX: YouTube video preview should not occupy the whole screen FIX: YouTube subtitle should not have a wide translucent background 8.24.84.171: FIX: When video dictionary is activated twice, it was clearing the settings on the sidebar. Fixed now FIX: CWS was not effecting on some sites. Fixed now 8.24.84.170: UPDATE: Improved segmentation and subtitle FIX: Two line subtitles in YouTube, only the second one was showing on video dictionary. This is working now, all subtitles are now showing on video dictionary 8.24.84.161: FIX: Automatic video dictionary for YouTube is showing even when on fullscreen, should not be shown when on fullscreen FIX: Dictionary is disappearing when definition is scrolled into view. Fixed 8.24.84.160: NEW: Automatic video dictionary for Viki UPDATE: Improved segmentation 8.24.84.150: NEW: Automatic dictionary for Netflix now works on YouTube too UPDATE: Improved English annotation for Netflix 8.24.84.140: UPDATE: Improved the algorithm of segmentation UPDATE: Overriding segmentations will prompt for confirmation first FIX: English annotation for Netflix should follow the Guide's font on Options screen 8.24.84.130: NEW: It's now easier to add segmentation overrides, it can now be done on the page itself. Just right-click the word(s) and select the needed segmentation to override UPDATE: Dictionary, new words FIX: English annotation on Netflix displayed asterisk due to incorrect loading of conversion (traditional <-> simplified) list. This is fixed now 8.24.84.120: NEW: Functionality to save Netflix's subtitle (and time) to learning tracking sheet UPDATE: Can now hide Netflix English words annotation by setting the English words' length limitation to zero 8.24.84.110: NEW: Netflix-embedded CWS dictionary UPDATE: Dictionary, new words FIX: Dictionary for word, the pop-up dictionary should cover the page's pinyin so as to prevent cross-remembering other words' pinyin when focusing on one word/phrase. This is fixed now 8.24.84.101: FIX: Pop-up dictionary was covering the pinyin annotations when text is manually selected. This is fixed now 8.24.84.100: NEW: Can now save multiple offline reading UPDATE: Optimized text replacer of Traditional <-> Simplified converter 8.24.84.0: UPDATE: Removed 12 seconds limitation of text-to-speech, browser can now handle more than 15 seconds UPDATE: Improved segmentation of multi-words FIX: Dictionary was not showing in Options screen. It's showing now 8.24.83.1: FIX: Made the color of pipe symbol lighter to prevent blending with words as letter l 8.24.83.0: UPDATE: Improved segmentation of proper nouns 8.24.82.0: NEW: Dictionary, when using one line definition, there's an indicator in pinyin if the hanzi character/word have two or more meanings/pronunciations 8.24.81.1: FIX: Dictionary, corrected repositioning and resizing logic 8.24.81.0: NEW: Dictionary, can now be configured to display just one line definition for each word. Because 和 have too many definitions, that's all :-) Nope not just that, language learners can also use this functionality to zip through the sentences they are reading or if the learner's vocabulary level is advanced enough. One line definition can also be activated by selecting the Advanced level 8.24.80.0: NEW: If an external dictionary site (or sentence mining site) comes with its own pinyin annotations and definitions, the language learner may want to disable CWS on the specific pages of those sites To do so, just add #no-cws on the URL of those pages in *further lookup site* and *sentence mining site* of CWS's Options screen, e.g., https://dict.leo.org/chinesisch-deutsch/%s#no-cws https://www.chineseboost.com/chinese-example-sentences#no-cws 8.24.79.0: UPDATE: Dictionary, new words 8.24.78.0: NEW: Dictionary, show definitions for manually highlighted text. Works on both sentence dictionary and word dictionary. Especially useful on mobile devices in which the link's meaning can't be hovered on using tapping, a site will just transfer to another page when links are tapped. This new functionality enables language learner to manually highlight the link's text first so then the language learner can see the link's meaning before tapping the link 8.24.77.0: UPDATE: Dictionary, new words 8.24.76.1: FIX: Corrected split override for segmentations, so that CWS can still box garden-path words 8.24.76.0: UPDATE: For single character word with multiple meanings, the typical meaning is shown first 8.24.75.2: FIX: Corrected erhua pinyin contraction, e.g., yǒu yǎnlì jiàn r, should be: yǒu yǎnlì jiànr 8.24.75.1: FIX: Corrected sorting FIX: Pinyin on page was not showing the usual pronunciation of a word, e.g., 吗 was showing as má instead of ma. This is fixed now, 吗 is now showing on page as ma 8.24.75.0: UPDATE: Dictionary, improved sorting. Relevant definitions first FIX: Calligraphy printer was not working. Fixed 8.24.74.0: UPDATE: Improved segmentations FIX: Auto-translate for Bing kept reloading the translation sidebar even if mouse is hovered on same sentence. This is fixed now FIX: Auto-translate for DeepL kept reloading the translation tab even if the DeepL's tab is already closed. This is fixed now 8.24.73.0: NEW: Copy selected text as simplified or traditional UPDATE: Dictionary, new words 8.24.72.0: NEW: Language learners can now add their own segmentation overrides 8.24.71.0: UPDATE: Optimized the re-segmenter of wrong segmentations 8.24.70.0: UPDATE: Improved segmentations for 站在, e.g., 地铁站在哪里 is not segmented as 地铁 站在 哪里 anymore; it's segmented as 地铁站 在 哪里 instead 8.24.69.0: UPDATE: Sentence dictionary is now more responsive when hovering across sentence/phrase FIX: Corrected segmentations of erhua FIX: Character dictionary was leaving multiple pop-ups. Fixed now FIX: Premature notification while the character is being expanded. Fixed now 8.24.68.0: UPDATE: Improved segmentations FIX: Marked learned words with multiple definitions were not visually marked when page is reloaded. This is fixed now 8.24.67.0: NEW: Character dictionary, the strokes count is now indicated UPDATE: Dictionary, new words FIX: Corrected the bottom margin of Page HSK percentages FIX: Corrected character expansions, i.e., 鱼 should not be expanded to 𠂊田一. 鱼 is not a compound character, 鱼 is a base character. Graphical expansion is not used when there is available semantic expansion 8.24.66.0: NEW: Tapping the calligraphy animation stops/resumes it UPDATE: On mobile devices, pop-up dictionary now repositions from bottom to top when there is little space at the bottom UPDATE: Improved segmentations FIX: Pop-up character dictionary was flickering when repositioning it from bottom to top. Fixed now, no more flickering 8.24.65.0: UPDATE: Dictionary, new words FIX: Notification was not working on succeeding right-clicks on base character. Working now 8.24.64.0: UPDATE: Dictionary, new words FIX: Crashing problem occurred when tag-less word dictionary mode is used when unified unicodes was set to enabled. This is fixed now, no more crashing 8.24.63.0: UPDATE: Improved segmentations FIX: Corrected comma spacing in idioms 8.24.62.0: NEW: A character can now be expanded to its component characters, e.g., 好 is expanded as 女 and 子 8.24.61.0: UPDATE: Improved expansion of words, e.g., 帮个忙 is expanded as 帮忙 and 个 UPDATE: Animation for word expansions FIX: Corrected resizing of pop-up dictionary's height to make expanded words viewable 8.24.60.1: FIX: Corrected segmentations 8.24.60.0: UPDATE: Improved expansion of words, e.g., 不清楚 is expanded as 不清 and 楚, and 不 and 清楚 8.24.59.0: UPDATE: Improved expansion of word, e.g., 掰不开 is expanded as 掰开 and 不, instead of 掰 and 不 and 开; 找不到 is expanded as 找到 and 不, instead of 找 and 不到 UPDATE: Improved segmentation 8.24.58.0: NEW: Keyboard shortcut 'e' to unhide English definitions that were hidden by Chinese immersion mode, especially useful when used in conjunction with keyboard shortcut 'a' (advance to next word) UPDATE: Made the default tone-based colors eye-friendly on both dark and light backgrounds 8.24.57.1: FIX: Made unified unicodes work on tag-less word dictionary 8.24.57.0: Improved segmentation and separation 8.24.56.0: UPDATE: Dictionary, right-clicking phrase now separates by word instead of by character UPDATE: Dictionary, new words FIX: Corrected tones on page for words with mix Chinese and numbers, e.g., 美国51区 8.24.55.1: FIX: Corrected the logic of variants filter 8.24.55.0: NEW: Right-clicking (long press on mobile devices) the pinyin/zhuyin plays the sound in different voice FIX: Corrected Dictionary HSK wrong alignment 8.24.54.0: NEW: Idioms with commas are now showing on sentence dictionary UPDATE: Dictionary, new words FIX: Backward-slanting comma is not used for segmenting phrases anymore. Backward-slanting comma is mostly used for itemizations 8.24.53.0: NEW: See word's HSK level beside dictionary's hanzi 8.24.52.0: UPDATE: Improved segmentation. e.g., 有意义 was segmenting as yǒuyì yì, now it's segmenting as yǒu yìyì 8.24.51.0: UPDATE: Dictionary, new words FIX: Corrected dictionary sorting 8.24.50.0: UPDATE: Dictionary, new words FIX: Corrected pop-up dictionary repositioning logic 8.24.49.0: NEW: Can now view the definition of Chinese words in definitions FIX: Corrected pop-up dictionary repositioning behavior 8.24.48.0: NEW: Can now view the compound word's subwords UPDATE: Dictionary, new words -------------- HOW TO USE: Simply go to a web page in Chinese, by default the words are separated by colors. Then to use the dictionary, hover over the characters with your mouse to see a window open up showing the English translation along with the pinyin romanization Functionalities of words separator: - Separate words by using color and/or space - See guides above/under the words, i.e., pinyin, zhuyin/bopomofo, HSK level, tone marks - Sentence can be copied with spaces between words - Mark learned words by 1. clicking the words 2. inputting pinyin 3. speaking the word on microphone - Color aid to identify the word's HSK level or tones - Hanzi and pinyin's size and font can be changed - Language learners can customize their own colors for dark mode and light mode - Read aloud (text-to-speech) the hovered word or sentence - Easily look up example sentences from a dozen of high-quality Chinese sentence mining sites using single key shortcut (1 to 9 by default). Language learners can add more sentence mining sites - Can be used to proofread text that are being typed in text boxes. Can also be used to proofread text that are being typed in email editor, word processor, etc, as long they are HTML-based and not canvas-based tech - Garden-path words are enclosed in boxes Reference: https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/17071/how-to-determine-the-end-of-words/17074#17074 - After a word is marked as known/learned, the notification box shows the count of the words you knew/learned already Functionalities of dictionary: - Look up from 181,709 words, proper nouns, idioms, expressions, colloquial/slang (e.g., AA制, 3Q, T恤) while reading Chinese web sites just by hovering the mouse cursor on the word - Dictionary is set to sentence mode by default. All the words in the sentence are shown in the dictionary. Read more, hover less - Sentence dictionary shows all the garden-path words - Copy dictionary's definitions via clipboard icon or by pressing letter 'c' - On word mode dictionary, pressing letter 'a' will move the focus to next word, pressing letter 'z' will move the focus to next character, to go back to preceding character press 'A' - Character mode dictionary shows the animation and steps for hanzi's strokes. Character mode dictionary can be activated by pressing letter 'x' Functionalities (other): - Translate the focused sentence or word with Google, DeepL, or Bing - Convert the page/clipboard between Traditional <-> Simplified instantly. Can also revert the page back to original characters, some sites have mix of traditional and simplified characters - See the learned words and high frequency words in Statistics screen. Word frequency statistics can help the language learners know the words to prioritize learning or mine sentences with - With _HSK Percentages of this page_ functionality, you can browse sentences by HSK percentages. This can help you in identifying if the sentence you are reading is within your language skill level - Shows top 10 occurring words you haven't learned yet. The list is displayed at the sidebar - Shows the count of all words you already learned, and by each HSK level - Print calligraphy - Predefined five level modes: Beginner, Lower-intermediate, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert - Notes at the sidebar - Words or sentences to remember can be added to your learning tracking sheet (your Google Sheet) - Can be used on smartphones and tablets. Install extensions-supporting browser, e.g., Kiwi browser app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser - On smartphones and tablets, the extension can use Pleco for further dictionary lookup. After installing Kiwi and the extension, then install Pleco: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pleco.chinesesystem - All keyboard shortcuts are configurable