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) 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 fonts. For details, see Computers: Software: Globalization: Language Specific: CJKV: Chinese .
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 or Big5) zhongwen.com/zi.htm
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 flashca www.mandarintools.com
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). humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict
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) chineselanguage.org/CCDICT
Bilingual English or Pinyin search interface for WAP-enabled cell phones and other devices capable of handling WML pages. ktmatu.com/chinese/mobilecedict
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 and JavaScript) www.cybertearoom.de/chindex
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 informa starling.rinet.ru/../..
Currently contains over 70,000 entries, with traditional and simplified characters, Gwoyeu Romatzyh and Pinyin romanizations, WAV format pronunciations, grammatical functions, translations, and examples. Fuzzy search input through character, ASCII Pinyin, linguasinica.com
Integrated word dictionary (using CEDICT) and character dictionary (using Unihan Database), with search by English translation, Chinese character, radical-stroke, Pinyin, Cantonese, or Cangjie. Also provides text translation and flashcards. (Big5, GB, UTF www.mdbg.net/../..
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) www.acmuller.net/dealt
Primezero’s CEDICT server searchable by English, Pinyin, or character. Links to search engines and other Chinese dictionaries. (Big5 or GB) chinese.primezero.com
Indra Kurniawan’s CEDICT and Unihan interface, searchable by English, Pinyin, Japanese, Cantonese, Chinese character, or radical-stroke. (UTF-8) dictionary.kaide.net
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) www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html
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. humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can
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, image) ccts.cs.cuhk.edu.hk
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 www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html
Ganesa Media Labs’ interface for CEDICT, with search by traditional/simplified Chinese, Pinyin, or English. (Big5, GB, UTF-8) www.earthoffice.net/worddict.php
CEDICT and Unihan server with search by simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, radical, stroke, or usage frequency. (UTF-8) hmarty.free.fr/hanzi
The China AIDS Survey’s English-Chinese and Chinese-English glossaries with translations of more than 250 AIDS and HIV related terms and phrases. casy.org/Glossary/glossary_main.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) www.nti.org/db/china/glossary.htm
Forsiden | 