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Chinese Language Links

• Adsotrans - A bilingual Chinese-English annotation and translation system. Includes a simple and an advanced interface.
• Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language - 22 lessons in simplified characters at elementary-intermediate level. Includes multimedia materials.
• Chinese Character Finder - This site is intended to aid in the study of common Chinese characters by providing a visual search tool, rather than the "radicals" or phonetic approach used by most dictionaries.
• Chinese Counting - Interactive counting and multiplication in Chinese [flash]
• Chinese Dialects - Information on the distribution of Chinese languages and dialects.
• Chinese dictionary - Uses graphics files to display the characters.
• Chinese Etymology - Provides the origin and translation of Chinese characters. Includes pictures with the ancient ways of writing the character.
• Chinese Family Relationship Titles - A chart with the formal version of Chinese family titles used for writings and an informal version used in everyday speech.
• Chinese Forums - A community of people interested in learning about Chinese and Chinese culture. Forum topics include history, non-Mandarin Chinese, grammar and vocabulary.
• The Chinese Outpost - Resources on pronunciation, grammar and characters with general information aimed at demystifying Chinese language.
• Chinese Tools - Tools to help learn and process Chinese online, including dictionaries, flashcards, and translators.
• ChinesePod - Podcasts to learn Mandarin. Includes a list of popular words.
• Conversational Chinese Online - Conversational Chinese lessons, including grammatical information and downloadable sound files.
• Get a Chinese Name - Get your own Chinese name based on your English name. Provides a pronunciation guide and meaning of the name and your Chinese astrological sign.
• Learn Chinese Collection - Annoted links to handpicked websites about learning Chinese, including lessons, dictionaries, and dialects.
• Mandarin Essential Grammar - Chinese grammar explained, including examples.
• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks - Annotated links to over six hundred China- and Chinese language and linguistics-related websites.
• Melnyks - Podcast to learn Mandarin. Weekly lessons.
• Mobile Chinese Flashcards - Flashcard program to run on your mobil phone
• NewsinChinese - It provides English annotated Chinese news articles.
• Odds on the Odes - Paper on how old Chinese became an (almost) natural language.
• One a Day - Daily a new Chinese idiom. Includes characters, pinyin and English translation.
• Pinyin and Zhuyin Bopomofo Converter - Pinyin and Zhuyin Bopomofo Converter for Mandarin Chinese
• Pinyin.information - A guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in romanization. Includes romanization tools.
• Practical Self-Test - Offers a Chinese self-test.
• Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus - Fonts, bibliography, etymology and thesaurus lookup for Chinese and other Sino-Tibetan languages.

Chinese Dictionary and Translation Links

• 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)
• CantoDict - 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Chinese Character Database: With Word-formations Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect - Dictionary server with 13,060 characters, searchable by radical, stroke, Cantonese (in seven romanization systems) initial, final, or tone. Provides English translation, pronunciations (JavaScript), homophones, compound words, dictionary references, etc. (Big5)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Chinese-English Dictionary - Ganesa Media Labs’ interface for CEDICT, with search by traditional/simplified Chinese, Pinyin, or English. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)
• Chinese-English dictionary - Clear Chinese's CEDICT interface can be searched by Chinese characters, Pinyin, or English. Chinese pronunciation AIF files are available. (UTF-8)
• A Chinese-English Glossary of Botanical Terms - Compiled by Susan Marie Rossi-Wilcox; searchable by English, Pinyin, or character. (GB, GIF)
• Chinese-English Online Dictionary - TigerNT’s CEDICT server searchable by character, Pinyin, or English. (GB, Big5, GIF)
• 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)
• 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)
• Daoist Studies Glossary of Chinese Terms on Daoism/Taoism - James Miller’s list of common Daoist terminology, in Pinyin and Wade-Giles romanization systems. (UTF-8)
• Database Query to Chinese Characters - Sergei Starostin's The Tower of Babel Etymological Database Project contains around 4000 Chinese characters, with readings in modern Pinyin, Japanese, Sino-Vietnamese, Middle Chinese, and Old Chinese. It links to Chinese dialectal and Sino-Tibetan information, gives English translations, etc. (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.
• Dr. Dict: English-Chinese Medical, Biological, and Technical Dictionary - Specialized online database of scientific terminology with over 420,000 entries. (GB)
• Dylan's Shataukok Hakka-English Dictionary - Alphabetized glossary of the Hakka Chinese dialect commonly spoken in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. (Big5)
• English to Chinese Online Dictionary - Online-dictionary.biz’s CEDICT server, English search only, one of seven language dictionaries. (UTF-8)
• English-Chinese Dictionary - OK88’s online version of Linda Ng’s English to Chinese dictionary. (Big5, GIF)
• An English-Chinese Glossary of IT Terms - Information Technology words commonly used by the Hong Kong Government. (Big5)
• English-Chinese Glossary of XML and SGML Terms - Translations of standard Markup Language from The Chinese XML Now! Project. (UTF-8)
• An English-Chinese IT Glossary - Koh Chit Tng’s compilation of terminology used in Information Technology. (GB, Big5)
• ESAURUS Online English-Chinese Medical Dictionary - Wong Kia Boon’s glossary of Chinese terminology from PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. (GIF)
• Frequently Asked Chinese Characters - About.com’s dictionary of common Chinese characters, English index. (GIF)
• 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)
• A Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in HKEx - Investment and securities terminology from the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing House. (Big5)
• Glossary of Terms for Antique Chinese Porcelain - Jan-Erik Nilsson’s list of specialized vocabulary for East Asian pottery and porcelain.
• 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)
• I learn Chinese here - CEDICT interface can be searched by Chinese, Pinyin, or English; provides pronunciation links for audio. (UTF-8)
• Lexiconer English Chinese Dictionary - English-Chinese and Chinese-English interfaces using the Linux Chinese/English dictionary database pyDict, written in Python/GTK. (Big5, GB)
• Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage - 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)
• Mandarin Chinese Dictionaries - Blabi’s Unihan-based dictionaries arranged by alphabetical Pinyin, traditional/simplified radicals, semantic fields, and HSK exam level. (UTF-8)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Online Chinese English Dictionary - Indra Kurniawan’s CEDICT and Unihan interface, searchable by English, Pinyin, Japanese, Cantonese, Chinese character, or radical-stroke. (UTF-8)
• 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)
• Pinyin Annotator - 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Xiaoma Cidian - Chinese English dictionary - CEDICT and Unihan server with search by simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, radical, stroke, or usage frequency. (UTF-8)
• 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)

Do you know of a good Chinese link that should be on this page? If so, let me know about it! I will add any links that are relevant to learning Chinese. I am also open to link exchanges as long as the site pertains to the Chinese language.