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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 version is for testing only.

Cards created with it may become incompatible with later versions. Please don'' use for actual learning.

How to make it work?

Please follow :

• the Setup Instructions;
• the install a dictionary

then simply create a new note and type a Chinese word in the "Hanzi" field.

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-addon will fill in the pinyin, tone coloring, and translation for you. Pinyin can be user-corrected, and tone coloring is updated automatically.

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

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

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.

###What's coming?

• Compatibility with AwesomeTTS or other speech addon.
• Compatibility with the portable versions of Anki.
• Pinyin lookup on whole words, not just individual characters (meaning fewer lookup errors)
• On-line dictionary lookup (pending user requests)
• Automatic generation of simplified/traditional characters
• Graphs showing the number of known characters/words
• Support for other transcriptions, besides Pinyin (pending user requests)
• Generate multiple cards from the same hanzi field, like the new cloze support (prospective)
• Automatically generate recognition cards for single-characters, based on your deck contents (prospective)

Where to go from here

You may want to read the Templates documentation to customize the default templates.

Also, check out the Chinese Learning tips.

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.