Zhongwen Vault

Made by WooP18

🀄 Instant Chinese definitions and pinyin, right where you read.

Hover over any Chinese text to get pinyin, tone colors, and English definitions in a clean pop-up | no tab switching, no interruptions.

What you get:

• 🔤 Simplified & traditional character support
• 🎨 Hanyu Pinyin with color-coded tones for faster memorization
• ⌨️ Keyboard navigation — move word by word or character by character
• 🔛 One-click toggle to enable/disable anytime
• 🔡 Optional Zhuyin (Bopomofo) display

Built for learners: 🎓

• Save words to a built-in list and export directly to Anki
• Grammar links via the Chinese Grammar Wiki
• Skritter integration for vocabulary export
• Powered by CC-CEDICT, a trusted open-source Chinese-English dictionary

Click the PinyinPop icon to activate. Hover. Learn. 🚀

Credits

Plugin author: WooP18

Inspired by: Zhongwen — the Chrome/Firefox popup dictionary by Christian Schiller. This plugin would not exist without his work. Dictionary lookup, binary-search index, greedy segmentation algorithm, and pinyin conversion are all ported faithfully from Zhongwen's source. Huge thanks to Christian for building and open-sourcing it.

Zhongwen itself traces back to Rikaikun / Rikaichan / RikaiXUL. CC-CEDICT dictionary by MDBG. This plugin inherits GPL-2.0 from Zhongwen.