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LiuChan Chinese Popup Dictionary

By Aldert Vaandering

A lightweight Mandarin and Cantonese mouse-over dictionary for Chinese.

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Time on the storeAbout 3 years or moreA rough range, not an exact date

Store users≈3KRounded by the Chrome Web Store

Chrome Web Store rating4.9 / 539 ratings on the Chrome Web Store

Last store update5 Aug 2026Version 3.0.0, 2 months ago

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Reviews

Luolan Zi15 months ago
Absolutely amazing extension, I use this in combination with the Copyfish extension. LiuChan works on scanned characters within the copyfish extension, unlike the more popular Zhongwen extension. It is no longer supported, so please update it!!!!!!!!!
Lennert Gesterkamp15 months ago
Best popup, now disabled by google, can you please update it, thanks!!!
Jesus Christ Is Lord21 months ago
这个软件真的太棒了. 好容易使用啊.太好了!!!
Anna Morales2.3 years ago
Great tool for learning new characters
Den Vortex2.6 years ago
Great tool! The only problem is that the colors are messing up with Dark Reader extension. Please, fix that if you can.
Latane Bullock3.2 years ago
This worked amazing out of the box. Exactly what I was looking for to help me learn some new characters.
Teksong Eap4.3 years ago
Excellent app, very lightweight, customizable and much faster than Zhongzhong or the other ones. An absolute winner.
Xinyuan Li4.6 years ago
I'm a Mandarin teacher. I compared several similar APPs and decided to recommend this one to my students. I like most of it's features. The biggest complain I have is the name. It is an APP for learning Chinese and I do not understand how it spells its own name wrong in pinyin. It should be liuchang, not liuchan. Also liuchan means miscarriage so it is a really bad name for an APP.
Dave Hsu5.3 years ago
like the option of letting user set custom character and tone colors. perfect!!
T5.5 years ago
Quick and easy install, instantly does what is supposed to do. Very much appreciated!
Emre KUŞLU5.8 years ago
It's perfect.
ヂィラン6 years ago
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.
Emanuele Raini6 years ago
Simply awesome. Works great!
Soraya J. Del Amor6.3 years ago
Muchas gracias por crear esta app, es increíble.
An Đăng Nguyễn6.7 years ago
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!