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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
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Olle Linge – over 3 years
國語文教育叢書第十九:常用國字辨似
This site (originally a book) explains the difference between commonly mixed up (traditional) characters, published by Taiwan's Ministry of Education. As it says in the introduction, the main purpo... Read more.
language.moe.gov.tw
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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
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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
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Olle Linge – 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
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Foxears – about 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
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Olle Linge – over 8 years
Chinese Pronunciation Wiki (AllSet Learning)
This newly launched site offers basic information about pronunciation, mostly things that should be in all beginner courses and textbooks but seldom are. Currently, the content is fairly limited, b... Read more.
resources.allsetlearning.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
A Radical View (radicals neatly grouped by theme from gotCharacters)
A neat overview of most of the radicals, grouped by meaning. Sold as a poster too! Read more.
gotcharacters.com
Olle Linge – about 9 years
Bigram frequencies and mutual information in Modern Chinese (Chinese Text Computing)
This tool gives you the most common bigrams found in news language or general fiction (choose which one). Note that a bigram isn't necessarily a word. For instance, 一个 isn't a word, but it's a very... Read more.
lingua.mtsu.edu
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Olle Linge – about 9 years
Urban Dictionary Chinese
Urban Dictionary is a user-edited dictionary of colloquial language and slang. This is the Chinese edition. Words are usually explained in English, but sometimes only in Chinese. There are also exa... Read more.
zh.urbandictionary.com
Olle Linge – over 9 years
Mandarin Chinese Phonetics Table
Another web-based resource with recorded audio for all syllables with all tones. You can also get the “spelling” of the syllable read to you, ie. Initial, final and then the whole syllable. Read more.
lost-theory.org
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Olle Linge – over 9 years
Tasty Mantou Chinese (Online dictionary)
This dictionary is new and looks promising. It provides easy look-up for characters and words (both simplified and traditional) along with sample sentences with audio. You can also write characters... Read more.
tastymantou.com
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Olle Linge – over 9 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
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Olle Linge – almost 10 years
CantoDict - Online Cantonese Dictionary
CantoDict: an Online Collaborative Chinese (Cantonese) Dictionary. Read more.
cantonese.sheik.co.uk
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mikelove – about 10 years
Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite - Android App on Google Play
This is the free edition of Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro which has over 10,000 downloads and comes with a 30-day full refund guarantee. Lite features: ★ Offline access to all features (unless... Read more.
play.google.com
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hanpingchinese – about 10 years
The Phonology of Standard Chinese by Duanmu San (Review on Hacking Chinese)
Duanmu San's "The Phonology of Standard Chinese" is by far the best introduction to Mandarin phonology that I'm aware of. It's mostly useful for people who like phonology or are already at an advan... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
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Olle Linge – about 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
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Olle Linge – over 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
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
乡音苑 Phonemica, a panorama of Chinese dialects, painted by speakers through their stories
From the about page: Phonemica is a crowd-sourced project to record spoken stories in every one of the thousands of varieties of Chinese. We believe that each language and dialect is a priceless... Read more.
phonemica.net
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Olle Linge – over 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
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
Hanping Chinese Website
This is the website home of the Hanping Chinese Android apps. While the Android apps contain all the Chinese language-learning functionality, the website provides useful app showcasing, FAQs and ap... Read more.
hanpingchinese.com
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
New HSK Vocabulary Lists (Audio Examples)
The audio-based New HSK vocabulary lists contain words of all levels (Band 1 - 9). Each word has a practical example so that you can not only understand the word’s meaning, but also learn its usage... Read more.
hskcourse.com
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Sabina – 2 months
Outlier Chinese Character Masterclass - Master the Art of Learning Chinese Characters
Mastering Chinese characters, whether you find them enchantingly beautiful or overwhelmingly complex, is essential for literacy in Chinese. Outlier Linguistics will help you understand how the Chin... Read more.
outlier-linguistics.com
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Olle Linge – 4 months
Slow Chinese 每周漫闻
This is a newsletter for advanced students run by Andrew Methven. The free version includes a weekly newsletter with highlighted readings and some interesting vocabulary highlighted and discussed. ... Read more.
newsletter.slowchinese.net
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Olle Linge – 7 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
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Olle Linge – over 1 year
A Student’s Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese (Paul W. Kroll)
*The following introduction was written by John Renfroe and published here: [Learning Classical Chinese is for everyone (no, seriously!)](https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-classical-chinese-... Read more.
amzn.to
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Olle Linge – over 2 years
王力《古代漢語常用字字典》
*The following introduction was written by John Renfroe and published here: [Learning Classical Chinese is for everyone (no, seriously!)](https://www.hackingchinese.com/learning-classical-chinese-... Read more.
cp.com.cn
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Olle Linge – over 2 years
國家教育研究院雙語詞彙、學術名詞暨辭書資訊網 (bilingual and scientific vocabulary search)
This site is hosted by the National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan) and offers a search function to facilitate working with English and Chinese vocabulary in an academic setting. Search f... Read more.
terms.naer.edu.tw
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Olle Linge – almost 3 years
现代汉语通用字笔顺规范电子书 (PRC authoritative stroke order for 7,000 Chinese characters)
This is a digital version of the official authoritative stroke order standard used in China. It is sorted by stroke and is not searchable, so it's a bit hard to use. Thus, other resources will ofte... Read more.
yuke.blcu.edu.cn
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Olle Linge – over 3 years
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
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Olle Linge – over 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
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Olle Linge – over 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
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Olle Linge – over 3 years
OptiLingo Language Learning (Chinese)
Description provided by OptiLingo (I have not yet tried this service myself): "OptiLingo is a hands-free language learning app that prioritizes learning Chinese through speaking rather than typi... Read more.
optilingo.com
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Olle Linge – almost 4 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
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Olle Linge – over 4 years
Chinese Vocabulary Profiler (Chinese Text Computing)
This website offers many tools related to vocabulary frequency analysis, some of which are also useful for teachers and students. This particular tool, Chinese Vocabulary Profiler, helps you analys... Read more.
lingua.mtsu.edu
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Olle Linge – over 5 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
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Foxears – about 6 years
L-Lingo
Another SRS App with word database with associated pictures ("Leitner" method) Read more.
l-lingo.com
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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
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hanpingchinese – about 7 years
Online Mandarin Chinese lessons
Get Online Mandarin Chinese lessons from our Personal Language Tutors through Skype to increase your opportunities for career, travel and friendship or to follow your favourite Chinese film. Read more.
nativemonks.com
Sarah Thomas – about 7 years
Floomli - language exchange network
Floomli is a free platform for exchange languages during video call, voice call or text conversation. By joining Floomli you become a part of a global language practicing network . The main goal of... Read more.
floomli.com
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Marek – over 7 years
Idiomatic Forest (practice your Chinese by describing pictures)
Idiomatic Forest helps learners activate their language skills by discussing and describing pictures, getting feedback from native speakers in return for helping others learn your language. Read more.
idiomaticforest.com
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Olle Linge – almost 8 years
Chinese Tutor - Flashcards, Dictionary, Speaking Practice
Online Chinese flashcards that adapt to your learning, Chinese speaking practice using voice recognition, and a simple, fast Chinese-English dictionary. Read more.
fastchinese.org
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ChineseTutor – about 10 years
Chinese is Easy! Ep1 - Chinese Tones
This video is produced by Hutong School and explains the very basics of Chinese tones, suitable for the complete beginner or those that are thinking about learning Chinese and want to know a little... Read more.
youtube.com
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Olle Linge – about 10 years
Jason D. Patent on "An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics" by Perry Link
This is a review of Perry Link's book about Chinese. This passage sums it up pretty well, and although I haven't read the book (yet), it's high on my list of books to get my hands on: "In writin... Read more.
lareviewofbooks.org
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Olle Linge – over 10 years