Hover a word and press 字 Parts to take each character apart: which piece carries the meaning, which piece gives the sound, and the characters you already know that share them — all computed ahead of time and shipped with the extension, so it works offline like everything else. A new Reading setting can keep the section open on every popover.

Sparkle is 1.0. Changing how fast you learn now applies from today instead of rewriting your history: slowing down keeps every word you have already been given, where before it could take back half your list. Signing in has a proper six-box code field that accepts a code pasted straight out of the email.

Sparkle now says words aloud in a consistent, better-sounding Mandarin voice instead of whichever one your computer happened to list first. On Firefox, this release also requires version 128 or newer: below that, a permission Sparkle depends on was ignored by the browser, so it installed and then quietly did nothing.

This release is about accuracy. Sparkle is considerably better at telling apart the different meanings of an English word — it no longer reads the "like" in "what will the week look like" as the verb, and it picks the right Chinese word far more often for words that have several. Where a sentence does not make the meaning clear, Sparkle now leaves the word in English rather than guessing.

Sparkle now asks for your email when you set it up, so your word list, level and progress follow you into every browser you read in — sign in with the same address and the same list is waiting. New in this version: browse every word you are learning by level or by how little you have met it, and drill any of them as flashcards, either Chinese to English or the other way round.

Removes a permission the extension was not using.