PinyinPop

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 popup: no tab switching, no interruptions.

What you get:

• 🔤 Simplified and traditional characters (optionally show both)
• 🎨 Hanyu Pinyin with color-coded tones for faster memorization
• 📝 Works in the editor (Live Preview and Source mode) and in Reading view
• 📏 Measure words and cross-references shown with their pinyin
• 📚 Powered by CC-CEDICT, a trusted open-source Chinese-English dictionary, bundled with the plugin: no internet connection needed

Built for learners: 🎓

• Press S while a popup is open to save the word (with pinyin and its first meaning) to a word list note in your vault. The note is created if needed and a word is never added twice.
• Prefer another key? Use the Save word from popup command and assign it any hotkey in Settings → Hotkeys.
• Settings: word list note path, hover delay, traditional characters, character count, and on/off switches for the editor and Reading view.

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.

The bundled dictionary is decompressed with fflate (MIT).