The Glossary

Every novel has its own glossary, but some terms are shared across novels instead: more on that below. If you just want to fix a wrong name in a chapter you're reading, tap the term in the text rather than starting here.

What the glossary is#

The glossary keeps a term's English translation consistent instead of it drifting every time it appears.

New terms are added automatically as chapters are translated. The AI recognizes recurring names and terms and adds them to the novel's glossary so later chapters translate them the same way. You can also add a term yourself, and you can suggest a correction to any term you find wrong. See Editing terms.

Term types#

Every term has a type, which steers how it's translated (for example, whether it takes a pronoun) and how it's grouped when you browse:

A term can also be active or inactive. An inactive term is skipped when translating new chapters: it won't be used or highlighted. This is for names that stopped mattering, turned out to be a mistake, or that collide with an ordinary English word (a monster named "Silence," for instance). See Chapter overrides for turning a term inactive from a specific chapter onward instead of everywhere.

Junk marks a term that should never have been added: text the AI mistook for a name. Setting a term to Junk deactivates it and removes it from chapters that already used it. It isn't offered when you first add a term, since a brand-new suggestion that isn't a real term shouldn't be added in the first place.

Highlights in the reader#

While reading, glossary terms can be highlighted in the chapter text. Tap a highlighted term to open its details.

Two settings control this, under Settings → Site:

• Glossary Hints: a subtle underline under terms in the text. On by default.
• Clickable Glossary: only shown when Glossary Hints is off. Lets you tap a term to open it even without the underline. Off by default, so stray taps while reading don't interrupt you.

There's also a Glossary button in the chapter toolbar (a sparkle icon) that turns full highlighting on for that chapter: every term gets a colored background, and the Add and List buttons next to it appear. This is a per-chapter toggle, separate from the Settings switches above.

A blue underline marks a term where other readers have set a personal translation you haven't adopted yet. This can be turned off with Community Suggestions, in the same Settings section. See Personal translations.

For general reader display options, see Display settings.

The novel glossary page#

Open a novel and go to its Glossary page to see every term for that novel. It has two tabs:

• Local: this novel's own terms. Searchable, filterable, and paginated.
• General: every general term that applies to this novel, with a switch to include or exclude each one for this novel's translations.

On the Local tab you can:

• Search by name.
• Filter by type, by source (AI-created or user-created), and by status (Active or Hidden).
• Sort by Most used, Name A–Z, Type, Newest, or Most chapters.
• Mine: signed in, this shows only terms you've set a personal translation for.

Tap any row to open the term's details, where you can view its type, gender, chapters it appears in, and suggest changes.

The general glossary#

Some terms are shared across many novels instead of belonging to just one: common cultivation-genre terms, or names specific to a shared fandom, for example. These are general terms, and they live in one shared database at /entities/general rather than in any single novel's glossary.

A general term applies to every novel it's relevant to automatically. On a novel's Glossary page, the General tab lists every general term that applies to that novel and lets you switch individual ones off for that novel if one doesn't fit. There's also an Include All switch to turn every general term off (or back on) for that novel at once.

Editing a general term works differently depending on where you start the edit: from inside a novel, or from the general glossary itself. See Editing a general term.