About
This extension (formerly known as Yomichan) is used to easily look up words in your immersion by simply hovering over them with your mouse. It also integrates with Anki and makes sentence mining easy, as you can learn about in our sentence mining guide:
Sentence Mining Setup
Setup
Yomitan
Yomitan – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
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[ ] Download Chinese dictionaries: (don’t unzip the actual dictionary folders)
We suggest:
- For bilingual (Chinese→English) definitions:
- CC-CEDICT.zip (for Pinyin) OR CC-CEDICT.Zhuyin.zip (for Zhuyin)
https://github.com/MarvNC/cc-cedict-yomitan/releases
⚠️ Important: Make sure it’s the right CEDICT file - there are three, one for Pinyin, one for Zhuyin, and a special one for Hanzi. We recommend you choose only one - either the Pinyin one or the Zhuyin one.
- For monolingual (Chinese-only) definitions (only if you are an advanced learner, stage 2c or higher)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JT6PFl6_wC-_PGCJGOOolGbieQRr5PmP
- Simplified:
- [ZH-ZH] Xiandai Hanyu Cidian 7 现代汉语词典
- [ZH-ZH] 萌典国语辞典 (简体字)
- [ZH-ZH] DaCidian 汉语大词典 (in Simplified Conversions)
- Traditional:
- [ZH-ZH] 兩岸詞典
- [ZH-ZH] 漢語大詞典
(source — also has other dictionaries you might find useful)
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[ ] Optional: Download frequency lists to see how frequent words are in casual conversation and/or literature (you don’t need to unzip the individual frequency list folders, just the containing folder, zhfreq_lists.zip)
zhfreq_lists.zip
- BLCUcoll is from a 600m corpus of Weibo + film and television subtitles
- BLCUlit is from a 3bn corpus of domestic and foreign literature
- BLCUmixed is from a 1.9bn mixed corpus, aiming to be a balanced frequency list
- BLCUnews is from a 3bn corpus of newspapers （《厦门日报》、《厦门商报》、《厦门晚报》等）
- BLCUsci is from academic journals
- SUBTLEX-CH is from a 47m corpus of film and television subtitles
