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title: "Mandarin The Wild in Claude: Read Real Chinese Word by Word"
description: "Add Mandarin The Wild to Claude or any AI app that takes an MCP server, paste real Chinese, and get each word’s meaning in that sentence with pinyin. Free, no account to read."
canonical: "https://mandarinthewild.com/ai-reader"
author: "Mandarin The Wild"
---

In Claude and other AI apps

# Read real Chinese word by word, right in your chat

Paste a Chinese message, article or subtitle into Claude and ask it to read it with Mandarin The Wild. Each word opens our card: what it means in that sentence, its pinyin and its parts. Reading is free and needs no account.

[Open Claude’s connectors](https://claude.ai/settings/connectors)

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## Add it to Claude

1. In Claude, open **Settings**, then **Connectors**.
2. Find **Mandarin The Wild** and choose **Connect**. If you don’t see it, choose **Add custom connector**, name it Mandarin The Wild and paste `https://mandarinthewild.com/mcp`.
3. In a chat, paste some Chinese and ask Claude to read it with Mandarin The Wild.

Any other app that takes a remote MCP server address uses the same one, `https://mandarinthewild.com/mcp`. In Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http mandarin-the-wild https://mandarinthewild.com/mcp`.

## Things to ask

- **A message from a friend.** Read this with Mandarin The Wild: 明天方便的话，咱们一起吃个饭吧。
- **One word in its sentence.** What does 以为 mean in 我以为你今天不来了?
- **An idiom.** Explain 拐弯抹角 in 他说话总是拐弯抹角的。
- **Keep a word.** Save 方便 from that message to my Mandarin The Wild Backpack.

It reads the text you give it. It doesn’t open links or listen to audio, so paste the words themselves.

## What it can do

- **Read real Mandarin.** Opens the passage you give it in a reader. Point at or tap any word for its meaning in that sentence, its pinyin and its parts. The passage stays exactly as you wrote it and is not saved.
- **Understand a word in its sentence.** Gives one word’s card: the meaning that fits this sentence, the other meanings it could have, and when the sentence alone can’t decide, it says so instead of guessing.
- **Check the connected Mandarin The Wild account.** Shows which Mandarin The Wild account a save would go to. Only after you connect one.
- **Save a chosen Mandarin word to Backpack.** Keeps the word you pick, with its sentence, meaning and pinyin, in your Backpack, where Review brings it back before you forget it. Only when you ask, and only after you connect your account.

The meanings come from our own Chinese dictionary and reader, the same ones behind every card in the app and the browser extension, so a word reads the same everywhere. Claude writes its own explanation around them; the card is ours.

## Keeping words

The first time you ask to save, Claude asks you to connect your Mandarin The Wild account. Saved words wait in your [Backpack](https://mandarinthewild.com/backpack), and [Review](https://mandarinthewild.com/review) brings each back just before you’d forget it. No account yet? [Make one free](https://mandarinthewild.com/auth).

## Privacy and help

Reading saves nothing: we don’t keep the text you send. Only a word you ask to save is kept, in your own account, and you can delete it any time. The details are on our [privacy page](https://mandarinthewild.com/privacy#chatgpt). Questions or a wrong meaning: write to [support@mandarinthewild.com](mailto:support@mandarinthewild.com).