I thought it would be that simple as well; but as it is now I have Chinese support with
unicode-fonts-hack. With that in place I am able to view everything. After that I _painstakingly_ made a mobipocket dictionary file.
With the file loaded onto the kindle I am able to
Menu > Settings > Change Primary Dictionary
the only problem is that even though the "word" slot in the dictionary file is the chinese character, and the word that I 'highlight' on the kindle is the chinese character, there is some function/process that doesn't occur to use the highlighted word from the book to search the dictionary file so that it can pop up the definition on the bottom.
As soon as I get a little more understanding about how it works (since the OS for the kindle is partly OSS I'm hoping that someone somewhere has a breakdown of the functions) and if not I'm sure I can get enough information from the built-in dictionary to at least hack something together as a proof of concept before taking on the arduous task of making the whole 65,000+ word dictionary. Ha
