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Chinese Characters Dictionary Web Rick Harbaugh’s site hyperlinks across thirteen major online dictionaries at the character-to-character level. Search by radical, character, or English. Also adds definition links to Chinese text. (GB, Big5)
On-line Chinese Tools Erik Peterson provides Web tools to assist people studying and using the Chinese language, including CEDICT and Unihan dictionaries with lookup by English, Pinyin, Cantonese, character, or radical-stroke. Includes Chinese text annotator, character flashcards, and online converters for romanizations, encodings, Chinese/Western calendars, numbers, etc. (Big5, GB, UTF-8, and GIF image converter)
Chinese Character Dictionary Chineselanguage.org’s CEDICT server, searchable by English keyword; radical-stroke; Pinyin, Hakka, Cantonese, Sino-Japanese, or Sino-Korean pronunciation; Four Corner or Cangjie input, or character code. (UTF-8)
MobileCEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary Bilingual English or Pinyin search interface for WAP-enabled cell phones and other devices capable of handling WML pages. (Big5, GB)
CHinDEX Hartmut Bohn’s online index to "A Chinese-English Dictionary" and "Das neue Chinesisch-Deutsche Wörterbuch," indexed by radical, Pinyin, Four Corner and stroke count. (GB, JavaScript)
Online Chinese English Dictionary Indra Kurniawan’s CEDICT and Unihan interface, searchable by English, Pinyin, Japanese, Cantonese, Chinese character, or radical-stroke. (UTF-8)
CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary Volunteer lexicographic project (inspired by Japanese EDICT) that Paul Denisowski began and Erik Peterson maintains. It currently contains 25,807 Big5 words and 23,512 GB words. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)
Chinese Computer Terminology Interface to Hong Kong and PRC dictionary databases, searchable by English or traditional/simplified Chinese keywords, with bitmap or text display, Pinyin and Cantonese pronunciations (WAV). (Big5, GB, GIF)
Unihan Database Standardized information about "Unified Han" (CJK: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Ideographs [sic], which are part of Unicode version 4.0. Includes characters, variants, encodings, dictionary citations, radical-stroke, Pinyin, Cantonese, and Tang Chinese pronunciations, Japanese and Korean pronunciations, compounds, etc. (UTF-8)
Chinese-English Dictionary Ganesa Media Labs’ interface for CEDICT, with search by traditional/simplified Chinese, Pinyin, or English. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)
Xiaoma Cidian - Chinese English dictionary CEDICT and Unihan server with search by simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, radical, stroke, or usage frequency. (UTF-8)
AIDS Glossary Main Page The China AIDS Survey’s English-Chinese and Chinese-English glossaries with translations of more than 250 AIDS and HIV related terms and phrases. (UTF-8)
Glossaries of Arms Control/Nonproliferation Terms and Names The Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Chinese and English glossaries for nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, missile defense, treaties, and organizations; searchable by English term, acronym, or Pinyin. (GB)
Chinese/English Talking Dictionary YellowBridge’s CEDICT and Unihan interface, searchable by English, Pinyin with tone numbers or marks, Chinese character, or radical-stroke. Proprietary software required to hear pronunciation. (UTF-8)
A Dictionary of the Pinyin Language Zhang Juli’s proposal for an alphabetical dictionary of Chinese. Organized by letter but without search, contains some WMA format pronunciation links.
Hong Kong Department of Justice Glossaries English-Chinese and Chinese-English glossaries of legal and electoral legislative terms, from the Bilingual Laws Information System (BLIS). (Big5)
English-Chinese Dictionary OK88’s online version of Linda Ng’s English to Chinese dictionary. (Big5, GIF)
Lexiconer English Chinese Dictionary English-Chinese and Chinese-English interfaces using the Linux Chinese/English dictionary database pyDict, written in Python/GTK. (Big5, GB)
Chinese-Tools.com Site provides Chinese-English, English-Chinese, and Chinese-French dictionaries; traditional/simplified and Chinese/Unicode converters; and Pinyin dictionary annotation tools. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)
Pristine Lexicon This reference has over 150,000 entries, combining public-domain Chinese dictionaries with in-house specialized glossaries. Search by Chinese character, Pinyin romanization, or English. (Big5)
Mandarin Chinese Dictionaries Blabi’s Unihan-based dictionaries arranged by alphabetical Pinyin, traditional/simplified radicals, semantic fields, and HSK exam level. (UTF-8)
pz English to Chinese Dictionary Primezero’s CEDICT server searchable by English, Pinyin, or character. Links to search engines and other Chinese dictionaries. (Big5, GB)
MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary An online dictionary interface for learners of Chinese. The CEDICT word dictionary is searchable by English, character, or Mandarin Pinyin; and the UNIHAN character dictionary by English, character, Pinyin, Cantonese, radical/stroke, etc. Menus support both simplified and traditional Chinese. (UTF-8, Big5, GB)
Mandarin Planet Chinese-English Dictionary This CEDICT interface, with over 34,000 entries, can be searched by traditional or simplified Chinese characters, Pinyin, or English. Audio pronunciation is available. (GB, Big5, or UTF-8)
CJKV-English Dictionary Charles Muller’s database of CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese) characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political, and intellectual history.(UTF-8)
Net Dictionary SQL server adaptation of the Princeton University WordNet lexical database, with Chinese translations by Han Yang, links to pronunciation files and Web usage examples. (Big5)
Chinese Tools Site provides Chinese-English tools for words, kinship terms, and personal names; and converters for currency, calendar, character codes, etc. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)
