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Chinese 中 Zhōng wén

Dictionary   词典   Cí diǎn

• Revised Mandarin Chinese dictionary published by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (1994)

• English and Chinese standard dictionary edited by 颜惠庆 (Yan Huiqing) (1920)

• Mandarin romanised dictionary of Chinese by Donald MacGillivray (1918) (Latin & Chinese characters)

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

• Analytical vocabulary of the New Testament by Frederick William Baller (1907)

• English and Chinese dictionary by William Lobscheids (1884)

• Dictionary of the Chinese language by Robert Morrison (1865)

• Dictionary of idiomatic English phrases by James Main Dixon, translated by Chan Chi Lan (1909)

• Dictionary of colloquial idioms in the Mandarin dialect, by Herbert Giles (1873)

• Guide to conversation in the English and Chinese languages by Stanislas Hernisz (1854)

• Fragments of Confucian lore, a selection of short quotations with the original text, by Thomas Ferguson (1920)

• 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 audio) - civil affairs - medical (Defense Language Institute)

• Chinese-English vocabulary with pictures & sound, by topics

• Chinese-English vocabulary by topics

• Chinese-English vocabulary by topics, for beginners

• 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)

• Learn to write Chinese characters by Johan Björkstén (1994)

• Chinese numerals & conversion

• conversion of a first name in Chinese character

Chinese language

• Chinese pronunciation with sound

• Chinese lessons (about)

• Chinese course

• Chinese course [PDF] (Foreign Service Institute)

• Learn Chinese the fast and fun way (1997)

• Colloquial Chinese (2007)

• Modern Mandarin Chinese grammar (2006)

• Colloquial Chinese by Neville Whymant (1922)

• Course of Mandarin lessons, based on idiom, by Calvin Wilson Mateer (1922)

• The Chinese language and how to learn it, Manual for beginners, by Walter Hillier (1921)

• Progressive course designed to assist the student of colloquial Chinese, by Thomas Francis Wade & Walter Caine Hillier (1886) I & II - III

• Chinese manual, condensed grammar with idiomatic phrases and dialogues, by Robert Douglas (1904)

• Chinese without a teacher, collection of easy and useful sentences in the Mandarin dialect & vocabulary, by Herbert Giles (1901)

• Progressive lessons in the Chinese spoken language & lists of common words and phrases & appendix containing the laws of tones in the Peking dialect, by Joseph Edkins (1886)

• Grammar of the Chinese colloquial language commonly called the Mandarin dialect, by Joseph Edkins (1864)

• Handbook of the Chinese language by James Summers (1863)

• The rudiments of the Chinese language with dialogues, exercises, and vocabulary, by James Summers (1864)

• Grammar of the Chinese language by William Lobscheid (1864)

• Grammar of the Chinese language by Robert Morrison (1815)

• Elements of Chinese grammar by Joshua Marshman (1814)

• books about Chinese language: Google books & Internet archive

• Cantonese language

News

• Caijing (财经) business magazine

• videos

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

• BBC - VOA - DW : news in Chinese

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

Texts & Literature

• History of Chinese literature by Herbert Giles (1901)

• Notes on Chinese literature with a list of translations from the Chinese into various European languages, by Alexander Wylie (1867)

• Chinese Literature, ancient and classical, by André Lévy (2000)

• Readings in Chinese communist documents, a manual for students of the Chinese language, by Wen-Shun Chi (1963) with Chinese-English vocabulary

• Confucius' texts & his philosophy in several languages

• books about Chinese literature: Google books | Internet archive | Project Gutenberg | Chinese text project

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。

Rénrén shēng ér zìyóu, zài zūnyán hé quánlì shàng yīlǜ píngděng.
Tāmen fùyǒu lǐxìng hé liángxīn, bìng yīng yǐ xiōngdì guānxì de jīngshén hùxiāng duìdài.

-> Declaration of Human Rights in Chinese, English & other languages

Calligraphy

• Chinese manuscripts


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

-> Cantonese language

-> Japanese language and its Chinese characters

-> Vietnamese language: closed to Chinese, written in Latin characters