About/Help
This Chinese/English dictionary provides an easy search. Searches
can be done by typing in either
the english word you are searching for, the chinese word you are
searching for, or the pinyin that you are searching for.
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A header was sent to your browser to tell it to use the ISO-8859-1
charset, which every browser in the world has. Even though your
browser is still in the western european charset, Chinese characters
are still able to be encoded and read from your browser.
If you have changed the
encoding on your browser from western european to something else, then
you must change it back before you can conduct searches by chinese
words.
Tips:
- To search for a particular phrase, put double quotes around
the search term like this "Take it Easy". The words within
the double quotes will be searched for as a single entity.
- If multiple words are entered and are not surrounded by double
quotes, then each word is searched for separately, and any
dictioary entry containing any word will be returned.
- It doesn't matter if you type in the search word as uppercase or
lowercase, this dictionary is case-insensitive.
- If you are searching by pinyin and can't find the results you are
looking for, try inserting spaces between the pinyin syllables,
and if it still doesn't work try to remove any numbers.
- There are some profanities in this dictionary. If you are
sensitive to profanities, then simply do not search for them.
Chinese Search:
Most chinese words in this dictionary are the traditional characters.
In the future, we will remove this restriction, but for now you must
search for traditional chinese, pinyin, or english, but not simplified
chinese. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Pinyin Search:
When searching by pinyin, it is important to remember that there are
about 10 different pinyin systems. You may find it difficult to gues
the spelling of the word. While future support is planned to make this
dictionary auto-correct mispelt words in the future, it will not happen
for a while. Try to insert spaces between the pinyin syllables that you
are searching for. Although you will get many more results with the
spaces, it is currently the only way to extend the search.
English Search:
When searching by english, you may get very many results for your
search. You can narrow down these results by putting multiple words
within "Double Quotes".
Entry Details:
You can see more details about a search result by clicking on the
underlined Chinese word or phrase. The details will show the pinyin
spelling, the traditional chinese variant, the simplified chinese
variant, the english definition, and related terms. The entry details
will also have a flash movie with the chinese word or phrase, which you
can print or play the pinyin pronunciation of the chinese phrase with.
This is extremely helpful for the beginning chinese student, as the
tones are the most difficult aspect of chinese speech to master. This
entry details page also has the advantage of being able to speak the
entire pronunciation of the chinese word or phrase without the user
needing to click on each separate pinyin syllable. It is an excellent
chinese practice tool.
Pronunciation Sounds:
When you click on a pinyin syllable, your browser will be asked to play
the sound. Though there are certain older browsers which are not
compatible with playing a sound given certain user input.
You can also
listen to a pronunciation of the word or phrase by clicking on the
entry details, described above, where you can see a larger
spelling of the chinese word in a flash movie, and play the pinyin
sounds through that movie. This is helpful because 1) if your browser
is not able to play mp3s, then the flash movie will be able to play the
pronunciation sounds and 2) You will have a large, printable, chinese
word or phrase in front of you, which will be easy to make out and 3)
you will not have to click on each pinyin syllable separately, just
click the play button once and it will play through all the pinyin
syllables in order.
Sources:
This
dictionary
is based upon the CEDICT dictionary and UNIHAN database.
The CEDICT dictionary was originally put together by Paul Denisowksi,
and the UNIHAN database was put together by
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