Big Characters

Obsidian Big Characters

An Obsidian plugin for styling Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) Korean characters, with optional automatic ruby pronunciation annotations.

Use <span class="bc-zh-cn">...</span> for Chinese characters without pinyin, such as a flashcard front side. This supports Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

For Korean characters use <span class="bc-ko-kr">...</span>.

When pinyin should be shown, use <span class="bc-zh-cn-pinyin">...</span>. Traditional Chinese uses Pinyin Pro’s Traditional dictionary for contextual pronunciation (for example, 轉盤 → zhuàn pán).

Korean characters with pronunciation use <span class="bc-ko-kr-rom">...</span>. Korean romanization follows pronunciation rules, so 같이 becomes gachi and 백마 becomes baengma.

Fenced blocks work too: use zh-cn / zh-cn-pinyin for Chinese and ko-kr / ko-kr-rom for Korean.

```zh-cn
你好，世界！
```

```zh-cn-pinyin
我喜欢学习中文。
```

```ko-kr
안녕하세요.
```

```ko-kr-rom
같이 먹어요.
```

All markers support bold and italic text.

Hotkeys

Assign shortcuts in Obsidian Settings → Hotkeys.

Use Big Characters: Toggle selection as ... to add or remove their plain markers. Use the corresponding … pinyin or … romanization command for annotated styles.

Settings

The plugin’s settings lets you independently toggle pronunciations in Live Preview and Reading View for bc-zh-cn-pinyin and bc-ko-kr-rom, and change the character and pronunciation size/font. Restore defaults if custom values went too off.

Roadmap

• Support Traditional Chinese
• Support Korean
• Support Japanese
  • Support Romanji
  • Support Furigana
• Support Cantonese