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Skritter (app to help you learn to write Chinese characters)
Skritter is an app for learning Chinese vocabulary, especially handwriting. It offers smooth handwriting input with some corrective feedback, combined with spaced repetition that allows you (or me,... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
HanziCraft - The Ultimate Chinese Character Dictionary
HanziCraft is a web application that takes you into the depths of Chinese characters. It aims to provide information on Chinese characters in a easy clean format with awesome useful information. It... Read more.
hanzicraft.com
Olle Linge – over 10 years
Zhongwen: A Chinese-English Popup Dictionary for Chrome
This is a tool that adds a pop-up dictionary to Chrome. I haven't compared it with [Pera Pera](http://resources.hackingchinese.com/s/sltbee/perapera_language_tools_popup_browser_dictionary) in deta... Read more.
chrome.google.com
Olle Linge – almost 10 years
Hanping Chinese - Powerful Offline OCR & Dictionary apps for Android
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro and Hanping Chinese Camera are the two highest rated Android apps on Google's Play Store. The dictionary (both free and paid editions available) gives you the ability... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – almost 10 years
Chinese Text Analyser (a tool for segmenting and analysing Chinese text)
This Chinese Text Analyser is a tool that helps you find content suited to your current vocabulary level, and makes it easy to identify and learn new words. You can use it to easily see which words... Read more.
chinesetextanalyser.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Perapera Language Tools (Popup browser dictionary)
This is probably one of the most useful plugins for both Firefox and Chrome to learn Chinese. Perapera offers an excellent popup dictionary which allows you to take on texts that would have been im... Read more.
perapera.org
Olle Linge – about 10 years
MDBG English to Chinese dictionary
One of the most convenient dictionaries online. This is my default dictionary in the CE category. It has a clean interface, is easy to use, has handwriting recognition, stroke order and sound. Some... Read more.
mdbg.net
Olle Linge – about 10 years
有道 (Youdao.com)
This is by far the best online Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary I know. Not only does it have much more words than most other dictionaries, it also has bilingual sentences in large numbers, givin... Read more.
youdao.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Zizzle (app for learning Chinese characters)
Zizzle is an app that turns Chinese characters into engaging pictures and memorable short stories with funny heroes. For every single Chinese character, Zizzle creates a mnemonic story that employs... Read more.
zizzle.io
Olle Linge – over 7 years
Language learning through Video (FluentU)
FluentU offers authentic as well as learner-oriented videos for learning Chinese. A neat interface allows you to use an excellent pop-up dictionary and other useful features to watch and learn from... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
lazylink – almost 9 years
Learning, powered by imagination - Memrise
The Memrise community uses images and science to make learning easy and fun. Learn a language. Learn anything. Read more.
memrise.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
nciku - Online English Chinese Dictionary, Learn Chinese Mandarin Online
Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionary with Chinese handwriting recognition, pinyin translation, audio pronunciation, personalized vocab lists, picture theme words and useful Chinese conver... Read more.
nciku.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Hanping Cantonese Dictionary
Offline Cantonese dictionary app for Android. Supports both Traditional and Simplified characters as well as Jyutping and Yale pronunciation. Handwriting recognition, syllable-by-syllable native... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – over 9 years
Chinese Dictionary - YellowBridge
Talking Chinese dictionary with sample sentences, handwriting recognition, fuzzy pinyin matches, word decomposition, animated stroke order, character etymology, etc. Read more.
yellowbridge.com
Tom – about 10 years
句酷 - 例句搜索 免费在线翻译
This website offers a large number of sentences, just search for any character or word and you can view hundreds of examples of how it's used in Chinese. This is mostly useful once you have the bas... Read more.
jukuu.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
汉典 zdic.net
This is my favourite free online Chinese-Chinese dictionary. it offers a lot of words with detailed explanations, along with examples. I use it for all kinds of Chinese-Chinese look-ups, especially... Read more.
zdic.net
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Zhongwen.com - Chinese characters and culture
I first used this dictionary during my first semester of Chinese and I have kept using it ever since. It has pretty good information about character etymology and provides more accurate information... Read more.
zhongwen.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Duolingo: Learn Spanish, French and other languages for free
Finally, Duolingo added a En->ZH course. As Duolingo is the most popular gamification learning app, the learning experience is relatively streamlined and tested. The monetarization aspect leads to ... Read more.
en.duolingo.com
stefanwienert – over 6 years
Hanping Chinese Popup
The ultimate solution for quickly looking up Chinese words on your smartphone or tablet, no matter what app (or system screens) you are using. Note: For Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and higher. Whe... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – almost 9 years
Blip (Plugin that teaches you Chinese while you browse)
This Chrome plug-in will insert Chinese characters in texts you read in your browser based on what words you're currently learning. This is a really neat idea that diversifies learning vocabulary a... Read more.
blip.nfshost.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
MandarinBanana: Remembering Chinese Characters by Drawing Like a Four-Year-Old
This website serves the purpose to create memorable mnemonics for simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Users can create mnemonics, and add images to the mnemonics using a paint-like front... Read more.
mandarinbanana.com
Matthias – over 9 years
Chinese font test page (Chinese Text Project)
THis is a simple but brilliant tool that allows you to check the fonts you currently have installed on your computer/browser. It shows you a number of pictures of characters next to what your compu... Read more.
ctext.org
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Character Pop
Explode Chinese characters into their building blocks; visualize and remember how they are formed. Read more.
characterpop.com
stefanwienert – almost 10 years
Horizontal Hanzi: Learn to differentiate similar Chinese characters
Helps with differentiating similar (in appearance) characters. Read more.
horizontalhanzi.com
ChineseTutor – almost 10 years
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro - Android app on Google Play
Pro version gives you: ★ Chinese handwriting recognition built in* ★ Mandarin audio - over 2,000 audio files of a real native Chinese speaker ★ Homescreen Widgets - flip through your favorite wo... Read more.
play.google.com
hanpingchinese – almost 10 years
國語小字典 (Taiwan Ministry of Education Elementary School Dictionary)
Even though this is said to be for elementary school, definitions are seldom that easy and probably require a fairly good reading ability already. However, it's definitely better than most other mo... Read more.
dict.mini.moe.edu.tw
Olle Linge – about 10 years
A collection of Chinese corpora and frequency lists
This is a collection of several Chinese corpora that can be quite useful if you're looking for detailed information about collocations and the like. Simply entering a word will give you sentences, ... Read more.
corpus.leeds.ac.uk
Olle Linge – about 10 years
教育部國語、臺語、客語辭典民間版 (Taiwan Ministry of Education Online Dictionary)
This is by far the best dictionary for people who learn Chinese in Taiwan, at least when you reach the intermediate level (many entries lack English). There is also an app you can use and there's r... Read more.
moedict.tw
Olle Linge – about 10 years
百度词典 (Baidu Dictionary)
This is one of the most useful dictionaries online. The fact that it's also linked to 百度百科 (a sort of Chinese Wikipedia), the information available here is next to endless. Since most is in Chinese... Read more.
dict.baidu.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Arch Chinese - Learn Chinese with innovative Chinese writing worksheets and powerful online Chinese English dictionary
Arch Chinese offers quite a lot of features (Worksheets, Flashcards, Pinyin Table, Radicals, Tools), but the most useful thing is still the dictionary. It offers sound, stroke animations and, most ... Read more.
archchinese.com
Olle Linge – about 10 years
書法字典/书法字典 (Online calligraphy dictionary)
This website allows you to enter Chinese characters (simplified or traditional) to search for calligraphy references. A range of different examples of the character in question is shown (depending ... Read more.
9610.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
Hack Chinese - SRS platform for learning Chinese vocabulary online
Hack Chinese is an online tool that aims to solve one of the most pressing challenges faced by Chinese learners: memorizing vocabulary. It caters to non-beginner students who want to reach a high l... Read more.
hackchinese.com
Dariya – over 3 years
The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters
Outlier Linguistics Dictionary of Chinese characters is an excellent tool to help you understand and thereby learn Chinese characters more effectively. It gives you instant access to the latest res... Read more.
outlier-linguistics.com
Olle Linge – almost 4 years
HSK level - Online Chinese level test
Test your Mandarin Chinese vocabulary level in a few minutes. Get a an estimate of your HSK level, keep track of your progress to get to the next level! Read more.
hsklevel.com
Frapy – almost 4 years
TOFU Learn
TOFU Learn is an SRS flashcard application that works on the web and on mobile. They support most languages, but have specialised in Chinese. They are often quick to fix issues when their users rep... Read more.
tofulearn.com
Foxears – about 6 years
Learn languages online for free with Mondly - Language learning made easy, fun and free
Mondly is a mobile app very similar to Duolingo (which does not support Chinese). Pro: * more or less straight course to take, no distractions * It has several languages besides Chinese. Th... Read more.
mondlylanguages.com
stefan-wienert – over 6 years
HanDeDict - Chinesisch-deutsches Wörterbuch
HanDeDict is an open-source, collaboratively edited Chinese-German dictionary, licensed under Create Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0 DE). It started out as a translation of the CEDICT Chinese-English diction... Read more.
handedict.zydeo.net
Olle Linge – over 8 years
FourTones (Web music game for learning Chinese)
This game helps you learn tones. You will see the lyrics of Chinese songs approaching you and you're supposed to select which of them actually belong to the lyrics you're hearing. It's a reasonably... Read more.
fourtones.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
HiNative | A global platform for your questions
HiNative is a Q&A site where you can ask people all over the world about culture, language, anything. We support over 100 languages. Read more.
hinative.com
Rebecca McKay – almost 10 years
CantoDict - Online Cantonese Dictionary
CantoDict: an Online Collaborative Chinese (Cantonese) Dictionary. Read more.
cantonese.sheik.co.uk
mikelove – almost 10 years
常用國字標準字體筆順學習網 (Common Character Stroke Order Look-up and Training)
This site from Taiwan's Ministry of Education is the definitive resource for stroke order for anyone who is learning traditional characters. Select your search method from the top (單子查詢 for enterin... Read more.
stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw
Olle Linge – about 10 years
東東錯別字詞典:網上中文錯別字字典 (Chinese Spell-checker)
This site allows you to look up what words a character commonly occurs in and what possible problem there are, thus allowing you to answer question like when you should use 欲 and 慾 or 善 and 擅. It a... Read more.
kwuntung.net
Olle Linge – about 10 years
Chinese-Characters.org
This site offers a reasonably comprehensive character dictionary that includes a few things most other dictionaries don't offer, such as etymology (with pictures) and a list of words a certain char... Read more.
chinese-characters.org
Olle Linge – about 10 years
The Cozy Study
A blog written and managed by an advanced Chinese featuring reviews of books, TV dramas and games. Additionally, the blog also features recommendations for utilising media in Chinese language learn... Read more.
thecozystudy.com
花谢月令 – 4 months
zi.tools 字統网
This website allows you to look up all sorts of things related to characters, including pronunciation in historical and regional varieties, components based on their pictographic origin, and much m... Read more.
zi.tools
Olle Linge – over 1 year
中英對照香港學校中文學習基礎字詞 (Lexical Items with English Explanations for Fundamental Chinese Learning in Hong Kong Schools)
An official website from Hong Kong's Education Bureau, showing basic information about characters and words, accessed through a variation of input methods (typing, radical look-up, Pinyin, Cantones... Read more.
edbchinese.hk
Olle Linge – about 3 years
Traditional Chinese Psycholinguistic Database
This website provides a large-scale psycholinguistic norm of 3,314 Traditional Chinese characters along with their naming latencies collected from 140 Chinese speakers. Several variables are gi... Read more.
ball.ling.sinica.edu.tw
Olle Linge – about 3 years
開放中文轉換 (Open Chinese Convert, OpenCC)
Open Chinese Convert (OpenCC, 開放中文轉換) is an opensource project for conversions between Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese Kanji (Shinjitai). It supports character-level and phrase... Read more.
opencc.byvoid.com
Olle Linge – over 3 years
语料库在线 (chcorpus.org)
This is an online and easy to use corpus for Chinese. Choose between modern and classical Chinese (the link goes to modern Chinese, as I assume that that is what most people are after). Enter your ... Read more.
corpus.zhonghuayuwen.org
Olle Linge – over 4 years
Clozemaster
Clozemaster is language learning gamification through mass exposure to vocabulary in context. Great post-Duolingo app and useful for language learners of all levels. Free to sign up and play! Ch... Read more.
clozemaster.com
Foxears – about 6 years
L-Lingo
Another SRS App with word database with associated pictures ("Leitner" method) Read more.
l-lingo.com
stefanwienert – over 6 years
CHDICT Chinese-Hungarian dictionary
Open-source, community edited Chinese-Hungarian dictionary • 11,000 headwords • Handwriting recognition • Stroke order animations Read more.
chdict.zydeo.net
hanpingchinese – about 7 years
Chinese Driving Test
Example questions and answers in English for the new question bank of the Chinese driving test for foreigners who want to study, practice and apply for a drivers license in China. Read more.
chinesedrivingtest.com
stefanwienert – over 7 years
Talking Chinese–English–Chinese Phrasebook app from Paiboon Publishing and Word in the Hand
This is a fairly extensive phrasebook with some added extras. It has over 12,000 words, phrases and complete sentences in more than 250 categories. This app is meant for beginners, but works well f... Read more.
word-in-the-hand.com
Olle Linge – over 8 years