MyCidian fills Chinese-vocabulary flashcards from the MyCidian dictionary.
Type a headword in the Hanzi field, click the MyCidian button (or Ctrl+f), and the add-on
fills pinyin, numbered definitions, part-of-speech labels,
an example sentence with pinyin and English, a per-character breakdown, and a
formal-register label into the other fields — all editable afterwards. Sense
order and part-of-speech labels match mycidian.com exactly.
Works fully offline: the dictionary ships inside the add-on, so no network is
needed and it works behind the GFW.
What it gives you:
- A ready-made "MyCidian" note type with fields Hanzi, Traditional, Pinyin,
Entry Block, Examples, Characters, Formal and Notes.
- A fill button (with a configurable shortcut) in the editor, plus a
right-click "Fill selected notes from MyCidian" action in the Browser for
backfilling an imported deck.
- Tools -> MyCidian menu: Refresh notes from dictionary (regenerates the
dictionary-owned fields; never touches Hanzi, Traditional, Pinyin or Notes),
Recolor notes (tone colours), and Remove deprecated fields.
By default the add-on never overwrites a field you have already filled; set
"overwrite_edited" in the config to change that.
Tone colouring for pinyin and hanzi is off by default and can be switched on with custom colours.
The dictionary data is derived from CC-CEDICT, © MDBG, licensed under
CC BY-SA 4.0. The add-on code is © Zeboosky, MIT License.