Archive for the ‘Hanzi’ Category

Hover Mouse over Hanzi, Get Pinyin and English

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

[Update: Thanks to all those who left comments and recommendations. I've added them to the post] Since the last time I talked (asked) about this was in 2007, I thought an update was in order. If you want to put your mouse over hanzi (like this: 汉字) and get pinyin and English, ...

Google Translation Bot

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

I just read an article that introduced me to a wild new thing: a Google Chat Chinese translation bot. What in the world is a translation bot?! I didn't know either. If you use Google Talk (which could be the chat program built in to Gmail or the stand-alone ...

Wanted: Hover Hanzi Helper

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Does anyone know of a plugin I can slap in my FireFox that will let me hover my mouse over a hanzi character and it'll show me the pinyin for it? [Update: Please see the update to this article.]