Mandarin The Wild: Chinese Popup Dictionary, Pinyin & Subtitles EN

A Chinese-English pop-up dictionary with pinyin that reads the whole sentence. Read real Chinese without leaving the page. Point at a word and a small card shows what it means in that sentence, with its pinyin. Keep the words you want, and meet them again in Review.

Made for high-beginner and intermediate learners who want to read the Chinese they actually come across: news, forums, comments, articles and YouTube captions.

POINT AT A WORD
• Point at any Chinese word on a web page. A card opens beside it with the meaning that fits the sentence, and the pinyin.
• Rest on the card, or press Enter, to see its parts: each piece with its own pinyin and meaning.
• When a word could mean more than one thing, the card shows the options. When it can't tell, it says so instead of guessing.
• Select a phrase or a sentence to go through it word by word.
• On YouTube, point at the Chinese captions or at the lines of the transcript to look words up as you watch.
• Press H to hear a word in a recorded natural voice, wherever we have a recording of it.
• Can't point at it? Paste up to 1,200 characters into Explain text in the toolbar menu. Alt+Shift+M explains the text you've selected, or opens the menu.

KEEP WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN
• Press M to keep a word to learn. It goes to your Backpack and into Review, with its sentence and a link back to the page.
• Press K for a word you already know. It stays in your Backpack, out of Review.
• You can change both keys, and neither one fires while you're typing.
• Looking words up needs no account. Keeping them needs a free Mandarin The Wild account.
• On YouTube, press M on a caption or transcript word to keep it with a link back to that moment in the video.

YOUR PAGES, YOUR CALL
• Pause it on any site with one switch in the toolbar menu.
• The page stays as it is. Only the word you point at is highlighted, and only while you point at it.
• Meanings are looked up on your computer, with the dictionary built into the extension. To find a word's recording, the card sends only that word, its pinyin and your chosen voice to mandarinthewild.com, with no sign-in, sentence or page address.
• When you keep a word, the word, the paragraph it came from and the page's address and title go to your Mandarin The Wild account, so you can find your way back.

A short practice page opens when you install it, so you can try every move first.

Dictionary: definitions in our own words, built on open data credited in LICENSES.txt inside the extension.