Click, hover, or select Chinese on any page: instant dictionary, translation, pinyin, stroke order, audio & save to OtterDict.
Users
25
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5.0 / 5
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Ratings
4
0 in 30 days
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#139K
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Version
1.0.34
updated 30 Aug 2026
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About OtterDict - Free Chinese Dictionary
OtterDict ( Formerly KoiSpeak.com ) turns any webpage into a Chinese reading tool.
Reading Chinese online ( news, Wikipedia, social media, textbooks ) usually means copy-pasting characters into a separate dictionary and losing your place. OtterDict puts the dictionary right on the page. Click a character, hover with Shift, or select a whole passage, and a clean bubble appears with exactly what you need. No account required, and it's free.
Look up any character, instantly
- Click any Chinese character → a compact bubble shows the word, pinyin, HSK level, definitions, and an example sentence.
- Shift + hover over characters to look them up without click through a long passage.
- Select a passage of Chinese → get an instant translation into your language
Built for actually learning the language
- Pinyin tone colors - pinyin is color-coded by tone (1 red · 2 orange · 3 teal · 4 green) so tones stick as you read. The diacritic is always shown too, so color is never the only signal.
- Audio pronunciation - a "speaker" button reads any word or passage
- Animated stroke order - expand a single character to see its radical, its component breakdown, and a stroke-by-stroke writing animation you can replay.
Fast, in-page search
- Press Ctrl+Shift+F (⌘+Shift+F on Mac) anywhere to open a search palette over the page - type a word or pinyin, get live suggestions, hit Enter to open the full entry on OtterDict.
- Or right-click any selected Chinese text to look it up on OtterDict in a new tab.
Yours to configure
- Toggle each feature on or off: click-to-look-up, Shift+hover, selection-translate, audio, tone colors.
- Pick your display language (Auto / Tiếng Việt / English / Korean / Chinese ... etc) and a translation target from ~130 languages.
- Choose a light, dark, or adaptive theme - adaptive shows the bubble in the opposite shade of the page so it always stands out.
- Everything applies live, no page reload.
Private by design
- No lookup history is stored or synced - nothing local
- The extension only contacts OtterDict's API, and only when you click or select - never on every keystroke, never in the background.
- It ships no tracking and requests only the permissions it needs.