LiveScan
Here's the most natural way to understand and learn Chinese: just point.
Just point to understand Chinese!
Point with your mouse and Loqu8 iCE pronounces the words in Mandarin (or optional Cantonese). Immediately understand the text with the popup window. See the meaning and usage notes explained in English—or your favorite language.
Loqu8 iCE shows over 100,000 meanings of words and phrases from the Chinese-English dictionary. Since this dictionary is installed on your computer, it's always available--even when your Internet connection is slow or unavailable.
- Chinese (simplified and traditional) characters are enlarged and shown with ColorTones. Easily view character and stroke details
- Pinyin (or Bopomofo) phonetics to guide pronunciation
- Meaning in English. Personalize definitions with your own meanings, usage notes and examples. Dictionaries for other languages are available
- HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) level for Chinese proficiency test. Basic words are HSK1; advanced words are HSK6
Explore
Interact with the Chinese text, by right-clicking inside the popup window:
- Lookup matching word and phrase from the dictionary
- Breakdown compound words and phrase into their components
- WebTranslate explains words through Google and Bing translation services
- Search for web, news, images, videos and music examples from Baidu, Google, etc.
- Pronounce the word(s) in Chinese
- Copy+ adds and formats word(s) to the clipboard so they can be pasted into Microsoft Word or Excel
- Copy from... copies selective details (simplified, traditional, Pinyin, Bopomofo, definition) so they can be pasted into another application
- Add to Favorites tags the entry for future reference
- Remove from Favorites clears the tag from the entry
- Word opens a dialog for your to add (or edit) entries in your personal dictionary
- Export and saves the entry to a file
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- Not all features are available in every iCE edition. Compare iCE Editions
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About LiveScan
LiveScan works with popular Chinese websites (including Baidu, Tencent), emails and documents (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF).
LiveScan works with Chinese text that can be selected or copied to the clipboard; Chinese graphics and video are not supported.
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