Chinese

Chinese Websites

This category lists non-commercial online dictionaries and glossaries of Chinese with English interfaces, compare Chinese interfaces under the World: Chinese Simplified/Traditional: 参考 [reference works]: 字典 [dictionaries] categories below. Many free dictionaries of Chinese are based upon two sources: the voluntary CEDICT (Chinese-English Dictionary) and CCDICT (Chinese Character Dictionary) Project and the Unihan (CJK Unified Ideographs) Database. While any graphical browser can show Chinese characters on Websites using GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) bitmap images, some sites require support for double-byte fonts, either traditional character Big5, simplified character GB, or all-inclusive Unicode UTF-8 or UTF-16 fonts. For details, see Computers: Software: Globalization: Language Specific: CJKV: Chinese .- Category ID : 95904

List of Chinese Sites 31 Websites

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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)

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Chinese Character Database

Dictionary server searchable by radical, stroke, Cantonese (in seven romanization systems) initial, final, or tone. Provides English translation, pronunciations, homophones, compound words, and dictionary references.

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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)

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ESAURUS Online English-Chinese Medical Dictionary

Wong Kia Boon’s glossary of Chinese terminology from PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. (GIF)

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Chinese-English Online Dictionary

TigerNT’s CEDICT server searchable by character, Pinyin, or English. (GB, Big5, GIF)

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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)

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Frequently Asked Chinese Characters

About.com’s dictionary of common Chinese characters, English index. (GIF)

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Online Chinese English Dictionary

Indra Kurniawan’s CEDICT and Unihan interface, searchable by English, Pinyin, Japanese, Cantonese, Chinese character, or radical-stroke. (UTF-8)

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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)

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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)

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English-Chinese Glossary of XML and SGML Terms

Translations of standard Markup Language from The Chinese XML Now! Project. (UTF-8)

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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)

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Lexiconer English Chinese Dictionary

English-Chinese and Chinese-English interfaces using the Linux Chinese/English dictionary database pyDict, written in Python/GTK. (Big5, GB)

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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)

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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)

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Dr. Dict

Specialized online database of scientific terminology with over 420,000 entries. (GB)

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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)

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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)

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Chinese-Word.com

English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary for tattoo and art design. (JPEG)

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Active Dictionary

Searchable by English or Chinese, integrates several dictionaries, including The American Heritage Dictionary, and a thesaurus. (UTF-8)

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CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary

Volunteer lexicographic project (inspired by Japanese EDICT) that Paul Denisowski began and Erik Peterson maintains.(Big5, GB, UTF-8)

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MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary

Provides handwriting recognition and MP3 pronunciations for both Mandarin and Cantonese. Menus support simplified and traditional Chinese. (UTF-8, Big5, GB)

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Websaru.com

English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary, providing audio pronunciation for every Chinese entry.

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Xiaoma Cidian

CEDICT and Unihan server with search by simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, radical, stroke, or usage frequency. (UTF-8)

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Chinese Text Project Dictionary

Classical Chinese character dictionary searchable by character or radical-stroke. Provides example usages linked to database of ancient Chinese texts.

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Chineseoutpost Dictionary

Searchable dictionary by English, pinyin, stroke order, or Chinese (GB, Big5, or Unicode encodings).

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YellowBridge Chinese/English Dictionary

CEDICT and Unihan interface allowing word search by English, Chinese character, or Pinyin with tone numbers or marks; and character search by component or radical-stroke. Proprietary software required to hear pronunciation. (UTF-8)

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Glossary of Antique Chinese Porcelain Terms

Jan-Erik Nilsson’s list of specialized vocabulary for East Asian pottery and porcelain.

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Line Dict

Dictionaries searchable by English, Pinyin, Chinese character, radical-stroke, or handwriting recognition. Provides MP3 pronunciations, idioms, and usage examples. (UTF-8)

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