[ ] Set your scan settings. Here’s our recommendation:
[ ] Download Chinese dictionaries: (don’t unzip the actual dictionary folders)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JT6PFl6_wC-_PGCJGOOolGbieQRr5PmP
We suggest:
- [ZH-EN] CC-CEDICT (recent date) for bilingual translations ⚠️ Important: Make sure it’s the right CEDICT file - there are two, it’s the [ZH-EN] CC-CEDICT one you’re wanting, not the [Hanzi] CC-CEDICT.Hanzi one
- [ZH-ZH] 萌典国语辞典 (简体字) for monolingual definitions (only if you are an advanced learner, stage 2c or higher)
(source — also has other dictionaries you might find useful and helpful information if you have issues with Chinese Fonts)
[ ] Optional: Download frequency lists to see how frequent words are in casual conversation and/or literature (don’t unzip the actual frequency list folders)
- 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
[ ] Add dictionaries and frequency lists to Yomitan
Select all the dictionaries/frequency lists you want to show in the popup window when you hover over words. Here’s what mine looks like with 2 frequency lists and 1 dictionary:
How to use Yomitan with Microsoft Edge TTS
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Enable ‘Use a native browser window’ feature in the Window settings: (if you can’t find the Window section it’s because you don’t have the “Advanced” settings toggle selected at the bottom of the left sidebar)
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Disable ‘Select matched text’ in the Scanning settings
How to configure Yomitan to properly display Chinese fonts instead of Japanese fonts
- Result:
Contributors:
Luna, Chrono7, nadav, Michel, Marv