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ttempe edited this page Nov 17, 2012 · 38 revisions

Welcome to the chinese-support-addon wiki!

What is it?

This is an add-on for the Anki 2 SRS software to help learners of Chinese, similar of the Pinyin toolkit for Anki 1.

This is a development version. Please wait a few more weeks if you are not familiar with Anki. Newer versions may have different card templates or lists of fields, that will not be applied automatically on cards you create with this version.

Index :

If you are having difficulties typing Chinese characters, you may need to configure a Chinese Input Method (IME) in your operating system. Here's how:

  • on Windows
  • On Ubunt Linux or Mac OS : go to System Parameters->Language settings. You may need to consult your Operating System's documentation.

What works

Type some Chinese, and Chinese support Add-on will fill in the transcription, tone coloring, and translation for you. Transcription can be user-corrected, and tone coloring is updated automatically.

Chinese Support Add-on now supports three different transcriptions besides Pinyin.

Inputting Hanzi

Notes can be conveniently edited, and are rendered in beautiful ruby notation.

You can put multiple synonyms of the same word on the same note, and Anki will generate cards intelligently, to help you learn each word.

Synonyms question Synonyms answer

Currently supported are English, German and French (through CEDICT, HanDeDict and CFDICT off-line dictionaries)

###What's coming?

  • Compatibility with AwesomeTTS or other speech addon.
  • Compatibility with the portable versions of Anki.
  • Automatic generation of simplified/traditional characters
  • Graphs showing the number of known characters/words
  • Automatically generate recognition cards for single-characters, based on your deck contents (prospective)

How to contribute?

This plugin is currently in development. You can help by trying it out, finding out how it isn't working for you, and giving feedback on Google groups.

You can also help by filling in this wiki with useful learning tips or feature requests. You need to sign in on github first.

Finally, if you're a developper, your help and insights will be welcome.

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