Chinese Support V4
🐼Chinese Support V4 - auto fill Chinese cards (Fixed by Shigeඞ)
AnkiWeb Page | Code : 1240761427
Auto fill fields from Chinese.
This add-on is a fixed version for Anki25.07+ of the addon “Chinese Support 3”, originally created by Gustaf Carefall and credit goes to them. Credit: Other Copyright and Contributors (AGPL)



(These images are edited and re-uploaded from the original add-on images.)
How to use
To use this add-on you need to use Chinese note types. When you download the add-on a new note type will be added to Manage Note Types (Ctrl+Shift+N), so please add it by clicking on the Add button.

After adding a note type select the note type in the editor and activate it with the button in the editor.

Features
(These are edited and re-uploaded from the original add-on page.)
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The templates can be found under ‘Choose Note Type’ -> ‘Manage’ -> ‘Add’
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If you find that a field is not filling at all, please check config.json for the complete list of valid field names.
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Automatic field filling
- Translation (from built-in dictionary; supports English, German and French)
- Romanisation (supports Pīnyīn (拼音) and Cantonese Jyutping (粵拼))
- Mandarin Audio (fetched from Google or Baidu)
- Traditional (繁體字) and simplified (簡體字) characters
- Bopomofo (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ), also known as Zhuyin (注音)
- Rubies (small-print transcription placed above characters)
- Frequency (from “very basic” to “obscure”) - based on anki-chinese-word-frequency
- Usage Sentence Examples - Chinese/English sentence pairs from Tatoeba
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Automatic tone change of auto filled pinyin (hanzi field must be populated)
- E.g. fen1kai1 -> Tab -> fēnkāi (won’t replace existing tones)
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Tone colours (applied to characters, romanisation and Bopomofo)
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Built-in note types (Basic and Advanced)
Usage
The core feature of the add-on is the automatic field filling. To take advantage of this, you need to have an Anki note type with the appropriate fields (e.g., Hanzi, English, Pinyin, Sound). See config.json for a list of valid field names.
If you don’t already have such a note type, the easiest approach is to use one of the built-in models. Two types are installed automatically: Basic and Advanced. The only important difference is that the Advanced model shows more information.
To use the field-filling features:
- Add a new note to Anki (press a)
- Create (manage -> add) and select
Chinese (Basic)orChinese (Advanced)as the note type - Enable Chinese Support 3 for this note type (click
汉字) - Enter a word (e.g., 電話) into the
Hanzifield (sentences will also work) - Press Tab
- The remaining fields should then be populated automatically
For other uses, older versions of the wiki may be helpful: (OLD) Chinese Support Wiki
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. It suddenly stopped working due to an error, what should I do?
- This add-on may occasionally corrupt save data, if so please try delete the add-on and then reinstall it.
Q. Why isn’t the audio playing?
- The audio for the card template defaults to
<!--{{Sound}}-->so please try manually change it to{{Sound}}.
Q. How do I auto add example sentences?
- Please try adding a field named “Usage” or “Examples” to your card template.
Credit
Copyright and Contributors:
- 2012-2015 Thomas TEMPÉ thomas.tempe@alysse.org
- 2012 Roland Sieker ospalh@gmail.com
- 2013 Chris Hatch foonugget@gmail.com
- 2014 Alex Griffin alex@alexjgriffin.com
- 2017-2021 Joseph Lorimer joseph@lorimer.me
- 2020 Joe Minicucci https://joeminicucci.com
- 2023-2024 Gustaf Carefall https://github.com/Gustaf-C
- 2023-2025 Kieran Black https://github.com/kieranlblack
- 2025 fetsorn https://github.com/fetsorn
- 2025 Shigeyuki http://patreon.com/Shigeyuki
other contributors, see: chinese-support-3/contributors
Other Chinese Support Addons
- V1. chinese-support-addon (maybe original)
- Author: Thomas TEMPÉ
- Wiki: Chinese Support Wiki
- V2. Chinese Support Redux v0.14.2
- AnkiWeb: AddonPage
- Author: JD Lorimer
- V3. Chinese Support 3
- AnkiWeb: AddonPage
- Author: Gustaf-C
- Contributors: Kieran Black
Related Add-ons
- add-on : 🐼Chinese Words Finder
- add-on : 🐼Chinese Dictionary CC-CEDICT
- Korean Support | AnkiWeb: AddonPage | Author: Scott Gigante
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