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nciku Chinese Characters and Pinyin Dictionary - http://www.nciku.com/
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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Chinese Characters Dictionary Web - http://zhongwen.com/zi.htm
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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Unihan Database - http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html
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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Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage - http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/
Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Web edition based upon the1972 dictionary with over 40,000 entries. Indexed by radical, Pinyin, and English, and searchable by full text or head character. (Big5) |
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Lexiconer English Chinese Dictionary - http://www.lexiconer.com
English-Chinese and Chinese-English interfaces using the Linux Chinese/English dictionary database pyDict, written in Python/GTK. (Big5, GB) |
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ESAURUS Online English-Chinese Medical Dictionary - http://www.esaurus.org/
Wong Kia Boon’s glossary of Chinese terminology from PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. (GIF) |
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MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary - http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
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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Chinese-Tools.com - http://www.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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CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary - http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html
Volunteer lexicographic project (inspired by Japanese EDICT) that Paul Denisowski began and Erik Peterson maintains.(Big5, GB, UTF-8) |
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Hong Kong Department of Justice Glossaries - http://www.legislation.gov.hk/eng/glossary/index.htm
English-Chinese and Chinese-English glossaries of legal and electoral legislative terms, from the Bilingual Laws Information System (BLIS). (Big5) |
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Chinese Character Database - http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can/
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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Pristine Lexicon - http://www.pristine.com.tw/lexicon.php?lang=en
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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Chinese-English Online Dictionary - http://www.tigernt.com/cedict.shtml
TigerNT’s CEDICT server searchable by character, Pinyin, or English. (GB, Big5, GIF) |
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Chinese Computer Terminology - http://ccts.cs.cuhk.edu.hk/
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) |
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CJKV-English Dictionary - http://www.buddhism-dict.net/dealt/
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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A Chinese-English Glossary of Botanical Terms - http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/Glossary/
Compiled by Susan Marie Rossi-Wilcox; searchable by English, Pinyin, or character. (GB, GIF) |
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Online English Chinese Dictionaries - http://www.activeds.com
ActiveDS.com's interface, searchable by English or Chinese, integrates several dictionaries, including The American Heritage Dictionary, and a thesaurus. (UTF-8) |
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CC-CEDICT Home - http://cc-cedict.org/
A downloadable Chinese-English dictionary with pinyin pronunciation for the Chinese characters. (Big5, GB, UTF-8) |
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YellowBridge Chinese/English Dictionary - http://www.yellowbridge.com/language/chinese-dictionary.php
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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MobileCEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary - http://ktmatu.com/chinese/mobilecedict/
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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Online Chinese English Dictionary - http://dictionary.kaide.net
Indra Kurniawan’s CEDICT and Unihan interface, searchable by English, Pinyin, Japanese, Cantonese, Chinese character, or radical-stroke. (UTF-8) |
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Chinese-English dictionary - http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-english-dictionary.htm
Clear Chinese's CEDICT interface can be searched by Chinese characters, Pinyin, or English. Chinese pronunciation AIF files are available. (UTF-8) |
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Chinese-English-French Dictionary - http://www.chinesedic.com
Search by traditional or simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, or French. Provides AIF pronunciation links. |
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English to Chinese Online Dictionary - http://www.online-dictionary.biz/english/chinese/
Online-dictionary.biz’s CEDICT server, English search only, one of seven language dictionaries. (UTF-8) |
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Xiaoma Cidian - Chinese English dictionary - http://hmarty.free.fr/hanzi/
CEDICT and Unihan server with search by simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, radical, stroke, or usage frequency. (UTF-8) |
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Pinyin Annotator - http://www.longjiang.org/pinyin/
This CEDICT-based application allows users to input a Chinese website or text and automatically annotate with Pinyin above or beside the characters. (UTF-8) |
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Chinese Tools - http://www.chinesetools.eu
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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Net Dictionary - http://www.edict.com.hk/lexiconindex/
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) |
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pz English to Chinese Dictionary - http://www.pzlabs.com/chinese/
Primezero’s CEDICT server searchable by English, Pinyin, or character. Links to search engines and other Chinese dictionaries. (Big5, GB) |
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Glossaries of Arms Control/Nonproliferation Terms and Names - http://www.nti.org/db/china/glossary.htm
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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Chinese-English Dictionary - http://www.earthoffice.net/worddict.php
Ganesa Media Labs’ interface for CEDICT, with search by traditional/simplified Chinese, Pinyin, or English. (Big5, GB, UTF-8) |
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CantoDict - http://www.cantodict.org
Adam Sheik's CCDICT server provides a collaborative online English/Cantonese/Mandarin database, classifying over 13,000 words by usage as oral Cantonese only, written Mandarin Chinese, or both. (UTF-8) |
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Chinese Character Stroke Order Animation and Dictionary - http://www.archchinese.com/arch_animation.html
Arch Chinese's character or phrase interface searchable by Pinyin, English, or characters. Additionally provides animated stroke orders, flashcards, and worksheets. (UTF-8) |
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Frequently Asked Chinese Characters - http://chineseculture.about.com/library/extra/character/bls_characters.htm
About.com’s dictionary of common Chinese characters, English index. (GIF) |
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Chinese Words Database - http://www.chinese-word.com
English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary for tattoo and art design. (JPEG) |
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Chinese Dictionary - http://mandarinspot.com/dict
MandarinSpot's MDBG Chinese-English server with search by traditional or simplified characters, pinyin, or English. (UTF-8) |
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A Dictionary of the Pinyin Language - http://www.pinyinology.com/zidian/intro.html
Zhang Juli’s proposal for an alphabetical dictionary of Chinese. Organized by letter but without search, contains some WMA format pronunciation links. |
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http://www.cybertearoom.de/chindex/ - http://www.cybertearoom.de/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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ZhongD Online Chinese Dictionary - http://www.zhongd.org
CEDICT interface searchable by English or Pinyin. (UTF-8) |
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Database Query to Chinese Characters - http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/query.cgi?flags=eygtnn&basename=%5Cdata%5Cchina%5Cbigchina&recode=yes&hiero=gif
Sergei Starostin's The Tower of Babel Etymological Database Project of Chinese characters, with readings in modern Pinyin, Japanese, Sino-Vietnamese, Middle Chinese, and Old Chinese. It links to Chinese dialectal and Sino-Tibetan information, and gives English translations. (UTF-8) |