Reviews & Comments of LiuChan Chinese Popup Dictionary chrome extension

Excellent app, very lightweight, customizable and much faster than Zhongzhong or the other ones. An absolute winner.

like the option of letting user set custom character and tone colors. perfect!!

Quick and easy install, instantly does what is supposed to do. Very much appreciated!

Excellent. The only chinese dictionary extension with working TTS.

works consistently, and very useful there are quite a few apps like this, but not all of them work, but this on was able to work all the time for me, i click it on and i can see the translations when i hover the mouse over every time, works great.

This is excellent! All of the things useful for my learning Chinese is here. I just have 1 issue: It would be great if "auto-start when Chrome is opened" is included. Every time I learn Chinese I have to turn it on, which is a really pain : ( Hope that you can include it in future versions. Thanks a lot!

Thank you so much for creating LiuChan. The extension works great for me, the only feature not in there that I can think of is the ability to change the font size (it's a little small on my screen). ...Actually, that and the option to add custom user dictionaries (e.g: stardict-type dictionary - I'd love to use Chinese-Japanese or Chinese-Korean) but this is probably a tough call ?

This extension is almost perfect. For some reason it doesn't have english meaning of some very simple chinese symbols. It is kinda odd....

Why are there two extensions with the same icon & same name? I like the other version more as it also has the Cantonese (Jyutping) dictionary, but the text to speech function on that version doesn't work. p.s. Hope this extension (with Jyutping and functioning TTS) could be made available for Firefox users as well. Thank you

Much better than any of the alternatives!

This software is perfect! I always use Pleco Screen Reader (cursor translator) on my phone and combine it with WeiBo so that I can learn based on real people using the language. LiuChan is very similar and can be tweaked in "Options" quite a bit to the comfort of the user. I really appreciate this Chrome Extension. I might end up using this more than Pleco. One feature that would be cool would be text resizing or font-changing the Hanzi. It's slightly larger than the usual text on my screen, but it would be nice to be able to change it too.

This is AMAZING.

Great app. Super easy to use. You just hover your mouse over the characters. I was waiting for such an app for so long. If it doesn't work at first it might be because you have to click on the extension button(whatever you call it thing) so it turns from grey to red, and then refresh the page. At least that's what I had to do to get it to work. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS APP.

一级棒

Amazing. Finally a decent Chinese pop-up for Chrome that works in text input boxes. This is THE best Chinese pop-up out there, of any web browser, not just Chrome, and it's the reason I'm finally ditching Fire-bloat-fox and switching to Chrome. It really woks beautifully: it's instant, clean, and I love the fact that I can configure custom pinyin tone colors. My only small complaint is that when hovering hyperlinks which Chinese text, the link tool tip covers the Chinese popup. I'm sure this will be fixed in a future release. Also a small suggestion, in addition to themes, it would be nice to be be able to customize the background. I like the Pleco theme clean look and feel, but the thick blue bands at the top and bottom waste space. I wish I could just have a simple white rectangle with a thin border around it (both with custom colors), and maybe an option to choose between round and square corners. Really, a great contribution to the Chinese-learning community. Thank you!!