Settings

Highlight Chinese text and let the popup windows show you the meaning

Settings > Auto-Translate

Open Settings to the Auto-Translate tab. In this section, you may enable (or disable) settings for Chinese text selected with HighlightScan and ClipboardScan. Definitions from your dictionary may also be translated from English to another language.

  • MLX (Multi-Language eXtension) cloud services: choose Microsoft Translator and/or Google Translate
  • Auto-translate selected Chinese text and definitions to: your choice of languages

    Microsoft Translator (49 languages): Arabic, Bosnian (Latin), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Klingon, Klingon (plqaD), Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Yucatec Maya, Norwegian, Queretaro Otomi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Servban (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh

    Google Translate (89 languages): Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sesotho, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba, and Zulu

  • Also translate definitions into: your choice of language (same as above)*

* Some features are supported only in Standard, Professional and Ultimate Editions.

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