Zhongwen: A Chinese Pop Up Translator for Chrome

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Here’s another one for all you Chinese-learning Google Chrome users out there- this follows suit after our previous post about the Perapera-kun Chinese translator plugin for Firefox. Likewise, Zhongwen is a Google Chrome extension that brings up pop-up translations of Chinese characters and words from webpages that you are browsing.

 

The Zhongwen plugin translates both traditional and simplified Chinese characters into English, and uses the popular CEDICT Chinese English dictionary to do so. Most importantly, it also shows the Hanyu Pinyin along both the simplified and traditional characters.

Installing the Zhongwen plugin is quite a bit easier than the Perapera-kun plugin. All you need to do is navigate to the Zhongwen plugin page and click install; no separate dictionary file installation is required. Activating the plugin for use just requires you to click the plugin button in your browser, and mousing over Chinese characters will automatically call the translation popup to show.

Zhongwen Google Chrome Chinese Dictionary Popup Extension

 

Zhongwen Google Chrome Chinese Dictionary Popup Extension

 

To get started with the Zhongwen Extension:

1. Get the Google Chrome browser

2. Install the Zhongwen Extension

Happy surfing!

  • Xuexiansheng

    Cool, I’ve been looking for something like Perapera-Kun for Chrome. I’ll def. try this!

  • http://woochinese.com/ John Biesnecker

    Awesome. I, like Xuexiansheng, have been looking for a Chrome-equivalent to Perapera-Kun for a long time. This seems to be the ticket :D