LiveScan
With MDBG Chinese Reader, just point with your
mouse to start understanding and learning Chinese. Focus on the subjects
and words that are important to you. In minutes, you'll be reading
emails, websites--even news headlines in Chinese.
Understand Chinese by pointing with your mouse
Understand Chinese by using it! Just point your mouse at Chinese text and the LiveScan™ window explains the Chinese text. Chinese Reader shows over 100,000 meanings of words and phrases from MDBG CC-CEDICT, the world's most popular Chinese-English dictionary. Instead of copying the text and pasting into an online dictionary, Chinese Reader immediately shows you the meaning of each word or phrase--even when your Internet connection is slow or unavailable. The dictionary is installed on your computer for fast, reliable access.
Display only the details you want
Open the Settings view to personalize the contents of LiveScan and other windows. Show only the information you want. If English isn't your best language, let Multi-language Extensions™ (MLX) auto-translate meanings into another language for you.
- Enlarged view of Chinese (Simplified or Traditional)
- Chinese shown in colors corresponding to tones (red, orange, green, blue, black)
- Choice of Pinyin or Bopomofo phonetics--or both
- Pinyin with tone marks or tone numbers
- English meanings (customizable with Professional Edition)
- HSK numbers corresponding to Chinese proficiency exam levels
- Favorites (star) tagging
- AutoPronounce™ reads the Chinese aloud in Mandarin or Cantonese (optional)
Tip: Want to quiz yourself on the meanings of words? Just hide the Definition and let Chinese Reader's AutoPronounce each word.
About LiveScan
LiveScan works with Chinese text that can be selected or copied to your Windows clipboard; graphics and video are not supported.
To personalize Chinese Reader with your own definitions and usage notes, use the Professional Edition's custom word capabilities. Add custom dictionaries, too.
Tips
Chinese Reader uses five different colors to represent each of the 5 tones in Mandarin Chinese. Words with similar Pinyin "spellings" may have very different pronunciations. ColorTones™ makes it easier to spot differences (as shown above).
Related topics
HighlightScan with Auto-translation
Understand Chinese by highlighting text with your mouse
Main Lists
Overview on Lookup, Favorites and History lists
Lookup
Find words in MDBG's Chinese-English dictionary
Guides for Chinese Reader 6
Installation Guide
Essential reference for installing and activating (PDF)
Using Chinese Reader
Overview of LiveScan, HighlightScan and Main lists (Lookup, Favorites and History) windows (PDF)
Personalizing Chinese Reader
Guided tour for the Settings dialog box (PDF)