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#Dictionaries chinese Offline#

What I use it for: Etymology, character components, horizontal character learning Pros: Clean interface, easy to use, handwriting recognition, stroke order, soundĬons: Sometimes inadequate English definitions (true for most dictionaries, though) What I use it for: This is my default dictionary in this category Online dictionaries mainly relying on English

Online corpora and other sentence sources.

#Dictionaries chinese Offline#

Offline dictionaries you should check out.

Online dictionaries for traditional Chinese.

Online dictionaries mainly relying on Chinese.

Online dictionaries mainly relying on English.

I have sorted these sources into the following categories: I haven’t used enough paper dictionaries to evaluate them properly and most learners don’t bother with paper dictionaries today anyway. This article about digital resources, so even if I mention offline dictionaries, they are still digital. People who really want to explore other dictionaries will do that without my having to write about it. This is because I know most learners are after simple and effective solutions. In fact, I have tried to keep the list as short as possible (it’s still quite long). My goal here isn’t to give you a list of all available dictionaries. Note that I’m not looking for dictionaries that can do things that those below can already do well. I also hope that you might give me suggestions of dictionaries that might replace those I list below.

In this article, I will share with you my favourite dictionaries, including why I think they are good, what I use them for and what drawbacks they (all) have. The bad news is that I still haven’t found a good dictionary that can do everything I want it to do, but the good news is that I have found several different dictionaries that among them can handle most of the questions I have. I have studied Chinese for some time now and have used a number of difference dictionaries. If you want to read about the issue, I suggest you head over to Albert Wolfe’s article about the shortcomings of CE dictionaries.

#Dictionaries chinese how to#

This article isn’t about the problem itself though, but how to overcome it.

This is mostly true for Chinese-English (and English-Chinese) dictionaries, but it’s also true for Chinese-Chinese dictionaries (in short, they don’t work very well for learners). Most learners of Chinese soon realise that available dictionaries have some serious problems.