Chinese dictionary


dictionnaire


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Chinese 中文 zhōng wén

Dictionary   词典   cí diǎn

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(pinyin with numbers or Chinese characters)
 
   
Chinese tools: Chinese-English dictionary, French & other languages, Chinese (meanings)
  English Pinyin Chinese
Collins: Chinese-English dictionary
  English Chinese
Li yutang: Chinese-English dictionary
  English
nciku: Chinese-English dictionary, with sound, & search by radical, stroke, writing
  English pinyin Chinese
dict.cn: Chinese-English dictionary
  English
mdbg: Chinese-English dictionary: simplified & traditional, with sound
  English Chinese
xiamo cidian: Chinese-English dictionary
  English pinyin
Mandarin tools: Chinese-English dictionary simplified & traditional, with sound
  English pinyin Chinese
Chinese etymology: etymological dictionary
  Chinese
Zhongwen.com: English-Chinese dictionary etymology
  English pinyin
Google: Chinese-English translation
  English Chinese


Analytical Chinese-English dictionary by Frederick William Baller (1900)

Dictionary of the Chinese language by Robert Morrison (1865)

online translation: Chinese-English & other languages & web page

Vocabulary
useful expressions Chinese-English with sound (Loecsen)

useful expressions with sound (bbc)

vocabulary & useful expressions with sound & differences between the 4 tones

basic vocabulary (with sound) - civil affairs - medical (Defense Language Institute)

    in Cantonese : basic vocabulary - civil affairs - medical

Chinese-English vocabulary with pictures & sound, by topics

Chinese-English vocabulary by topics

Chinese-English vocabulary by topics

vocabulary of the Olympic Games French-English-Chinese

medical vocabulary [PDF] Chinese-English

useful Chinese verbs

chengyu dictionary   成 語: expressions composed with 4 characters in wényán (literary Chinese)

Chinese characters
Chinese keyboard to type 3 700 Chinese characters with the Latin alphabet (pinyin)

Chinese keyboard to type 20 000 Chinese characters, classified by key

Pinyin keyboard to type the tone marks

Pinyin conversion numerals <> tone marks

handwriting recognition tool: write a Chinese character with the mouse to find it from the list that appears (pinyin, translation)

pinyin table & conversion pinyin > Chinese characters

Traditional <> Simplified Chinese conversion

Chinese > pinyin conversion of texts & translation in English (place the mouse over the character)

Chinese numerals & conversion

type a number:

conversion of a first name in Chinese character
type an English name:

Chinese language
Chinese pronunciation with sound

Chinese lessons (about)

Chinese course [PDF] (US Departement of State)

    Cantonese course

The Rudiments of the Chinese Language with Dialogues, Exercises, and a Vocabulary, by James Summers (1864)

books about Chinese language: Google books & Internet archive

News
Caijing (财经) business magazine

    videos

New Tang Dynasty Television: free television (in simplified Chinese or traditional, English...)

BBC in Chinese

Google news: China (资讯) & Hong Kong - Taiwan (新聞)

Texts & Literature
online books

Confucius' texts & his philosophy in several languages

First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

人 人 生 而 自 由, 在 尊 严 和 权 利 上 一 律 平 等。
他 们 赋 有 理 性 和 良 心, 并 应 以 兄 弟 关 系 的 精 神 相 对 待。


Declaration of Human Rights in Chinese, English & other languages
Calligraphy
Chinese manuscripts

Chinese calligraphy
Lan Ying

Chinese calligraphy

calligraphy & painting: online exhibition

Sutra of Diamant: the oldest printed book (868), a Buddhist text writen in Chinese

China   中国
China: maps, heritage & documents, civilization, history...

Pekin: maps, heritage & documents

names of the provinces & regions of China with their capital

Taiwan: maps, heritage & documents

Chinese calendar: New year & Chinese zodiac

Resources
learning Chinese online

links

configuration to read Chinese characters

Japanese: this language use Chinese chracaters

Vietnamese language: closed to Chinese, writen in Latin characters