Comments on: Wanted: Hover Hanzi Helper

By: Thom

Thom — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:30:31 +0000

wow, so cool thanks for the tips. Yet another reason for firefox as my primary browser. so much easier than thumbing through the dictionary

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:17:57 +0000

I can’ imagine a better one than what Jim mentioned. I use Chinesepera-kun all the time. Soooo easy.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:56:21 +0000

I don’t know of a plugin for Firefox, but I use Kingsoft Powerword and it works like a charm. You can mouse over any word in any program and it will give you the translation, pronunciation, pinyin, etc. It is designed for Chinese people learning English, but works perfectly both ways (english-chinese or chinese-english). You should be able to find in any software shop. It’s what most of the Chinese university English students use.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:13:24 +0000

@Albert: If you right-click the toolbar and choose “Customize…”, you can drag a ChinesePera-Kun icon anywhere onto the toolbar. You can use this icon to toggle the popup translations. Note: if you switch tabs, you might have to click that icon again for translating to happen in the new tab.

As for compound words, for me it always seems to highlight the longest phrase it can, but it still displays the information on individual characters, too. So I haven’t needed to disable compound-character matches.

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:32:00 +0000

I’ve got it but I’m still trying to figure out how to switch it on and off. And also how to get it to highlight compound words or not. Any tips?

By: Yokie Kuma

Yokie Kuma — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:59:28 +0000

@Jim: excellent. That plug-in works great!

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:05:13 +0000

You are in luck.. I think you will like Chinesepera-kun for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3349