Comments on: MDBG Dictionary Plugin for Wordpress

By: Jeannie

Jeannie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:45:11 +0000

Wow…awesome info! Too bad I’m using Blogger but I’m planning to transfer to Wordpress. Wish me luck…:)

By: Expatrate in Taiwan

Expatrate in Taiwan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:18:45 +0000

This is great! Installed on my blog and already going through and redoing posts with [hanzi] tags.

Do you have any plans to make a Firefox/Thunderbird plugin? Something similar to Chinese Perakun/Mandarin Popup? I think we are sorely in need of a Chinese Popup Mozilla addon that will show definitions from MDBG!

Nice work and thanks again!

By: 大羽

大羽 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:34:10 +0000

My friend told me a website few days ago. that’s http://www.visualchinese.com

I found at the right bottom of the page, there are two small gadgets. I can use that convert Chinese characters to Pinying tone.

By: Beijing Sounds

Beijing Sounds — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:55:11 +0000

@Rachel, the tool I mentioned, pinyinput, does just what you want (you type 1, 2, 3 or 4 after a syllable to mark the tone). You can download from

http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?t=13005

and here are some more instructions:
http://chinalinks.osu.edu/computing/pinyinput.pdf

You’ll wonder how you ever survived without it.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:38:20 +0000

also, when are you gonna do a post on Chinese punctuation and how to type it? It’s driving me nuts that I can’t make those other kind of commas. I did it once, and then forgot.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:17:56 +0000

Just joining this conversation. Is there not a way to just do it with a PC keyboard? See, I’ve been using a Mac and you can just use the option button and then +a for first tone, +e for second tone, +v for 3rd tone, and +` for 4th tone. I just bought a PC am editing the last 2 chapters of my book and it’s driving me nuts. I don’t want to fuss around with cutting and pasting. I downloaded something from one of the above links and it made my font look funny and all different sizes. Anyone can help with PC short cut to pinyin tones?

By: Beijing Sounds

Beijing Sounds — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:19:09 +0000

I’ve always used pinyinput, an IME from imron of Chinese Forums. Very stable and useful and works in almost anyplace on Windows. But I’m curious to try the above-mentioned google pinyin, since pinyinput has one weird bug I can’t work around sometimes

By: Mandarin Learner: Best of the Web — Bill (比尔)

Mandarin Learner: Best of the Web — Bill (比尔) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:50:54 +0000

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By: Alec

Alec — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:45:53 +0000

To answer your question, I use the Google pinyin IME.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:40:31 +0000

I’ve never had trouble in post body area – that’s where i use it most. I don’t use the WYSIWYG editor.