Hanyu 汉语 Hànyǔ

You can click on the Chinese word to get a GIF picture of it. You can

also click on the pinyin to hear how it is pronounced.

For a off-line way to search the dictionary, please check out the

CEL utility from

Richard Warmington.

When searching by Chinese you can tell the

dictionary to find entries that start with the characters, end with

the characters, or have the characters anywhere within the final word.

You can also ask to only return the Chinese entries that exactly match

the word being sought.

When searching by pinyin, you must include a space

between the different pinyin syllables. You can include or exclude

tone numbers (1-4 and 5 for the neutral tone). For example, if you

were looking for the word for television set, you would type “dian shi

ji” or “dian4 shi4 ji1″ or “dian shi4 ji” (but without the quotes).

All would work. But remember to include the space and set the

dictionary to look for pinyin, and not Chinese characters or English.

As with the Chinese characters, you can direct the dictionary to find

entries that have the pinyin at the beginning, end, anywhere, or as

the whole entry. You can return the results in GB, Big5 or UTF-8

Unicode.

When searching by English, searches are not case

sensitive. Since this is designed as mainly an Chinese to English and

not English to Chinese dictionary, if you can’t find the word you are

looking for, you may be able to find it using a synonym. Also, you

may get many unrelated entries that use the word in the English

definition but do not give the equivalent Chinese for it. You can

return the results in either GB, Big5, or UTF-8 Unicode.

To search by radical/stroke order, please use

Erik’s Character Dictionary. You can search

using a table of radicals and the remaining stroke count of a

character. From the list of characters that are returned, you can

click on the character to get a list of all words in the dictionary

that start with that character. This will only work however if the

results are set to be returned as GB, Big5 or Unicode and not as

GIF’s.

If you encounter problems, please make sure that

you are searching by the correct field. For instance, if you are

looking by the English word “computer”, make sure you are searching by

English and not pinyin or characters. If you have any questions or

suggestions please e-mail me at

eepeter@erols.com.

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