Miaob（妙笔）
Discover Chinese idioms while you read the web
Details
- External ID
- 1250861
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Miaob（妙笔）
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, Education, Languages
- Fetched at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
Description
Miaob is an open-source Chrome extension that finds Chinese idioms in the pages you read, explains their meaning, and helps you save discoveries for later.
Enrichment
- Theme
- faith-based productivity and devotional tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- browser extension for learning chinese idioms while reading
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight Chrome extension using DOM text parsing matched against a packaged Chinese idiom dictionary (chengyu) to show tooltips.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 16 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 17 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.
- Zhenzhu · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- SparkleChinese · hn · 2026-08-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Keysake · ph · 2026-09-18 · 253 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Fluendly · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- HU–BO · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Honku · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Huobidex · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- changming-serif-tc · github · 2026-09-14 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.33
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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