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Pinyin Conversion: Number <> Tone Mark (Lexilogos)
This is a neat little tool that converts pin1yin1 with numbers to pīnyīn with tone marks. Very simple, very useful. Read more.
lexilogos.com
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Olle Linge – over 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
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Olle Linge – over 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
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Olle Linge – over 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 – over 10 years
Online Pinyin Input Method (網上拼音輸入法)
Online Pinyin Input Method is a free online Chinese typing tool using Mandarin/Putonghua pinyin codes. We empower you to type Chinese online anytime, anywhere with any computer for free! Read more.
pinyinput.com
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Olle Linge – over 10 years
SmartHanzi
FREE multi-platform app and desktop software. I use it for looking up words, checking characters etymology, stroke order, collocations. The mobile app also has other functions. For me, this is ... Read more.
smarthanzi.net
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Tikaf Viper – 10 months
HSK Study and Exercises
HSK Course is an online platform for HSK preparation. It aims to help you not only successfully pass the exam, but gain confidence in using Chinese language. It mainly has 3 parts: Grammar Les... Read more.
hskcourse.com
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Sabina – over 1 year
Zungzi (flashcard app for Apple Watch)
A spaced-repetition flashcard app on the Apple Watch to learn Chinese vocabulary from the HSK word lists. Read more.
apps.apple.com
Alan Modey – about 2 years
电子课本网 (digital textbooks for native speakers)
Using textbooks written with the aim of teaching Chinese children about history, mathematics and biology can be great learning resources for adult foreigners as well. This website hosts hundreds an... Read more.
dzkbw.com
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Olle Linge – about 2 years
An Introduction to Literary Chinese (Michael Fuller)
*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
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
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
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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
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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
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stefan-wienert – over 6 years
Langademy (Learn Languages online with native speakers)
Langademy is a language learning social network that connects students with natives from all over the world. Students can practice Chinese, English, French or any other language at Langademy by mak... Read more.
langademy.com
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Olle Linge – over 7 years
Hanping Chinese SoundBox (now rolled into Hanping Dictionary) (Android App on Google Play)
UPDATE 2017: This app is now rolled into our Hanping Dictionary apps (Lite, Pro & Cantonese). Great way for beginners to practice single and double-syllable Chinese words. ★ Ideal for any stu... Read more.
hanpingchinese.com
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hanpingchinese – over 8 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
Pinyin Tone Tool (Toshuō)
This pinyin converter turns pinyin with numbers into pinyin with tone marks. Enter pinyin followed by numbers 1-4 represent the Chinese tones. For neutral tone words, either type 5 or no number. Read more.
toshuo.com
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Olle Linge – over 8 years
Master Mandarin: The Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide to Learning Chinese the Fun Way - Language Mastery
You don’t need to spend thousands on classes. You don’t need boring textbooks. You don’t need to be good at languages. And you don’t have to move to China or Taiwan (though that’s great if you can)... Read more.
l2mastery.com
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hanpingchinese – almost 9 years
HSChinese (customized online learning with lessons and exams)
HanSheng Chinese is an online learning platform for chinese with customized courses. It features Listening, Reading and Writing practices as well as a test for you proficiency-level and exams to... Read more.
hschinese.com
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lazylink – about 9 years
Bilingual legends and folk tales (Snowflake Books Ltd)
Snowflake Books' aim is to introduce English translations to children of specially chosen, ancient legends and folk tales alongside the Chinese language (traditional Mandarin or simplified) to fost... Read more.
snowflakebooks.co.uk
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Olle Linge – over 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
Chinese Computing Information (input methods, fonts, browsers, coding)
This is a comprehensive introduction to the world of digital Chinese, including the following: Script Basics Activate Keyboards for Typing Browser Recommendations Web Developm... Read more.
sites.psu.edu
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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
Mnemosyne Project (flashcard spaced repetition software)
Mnemosyne is a spaced repetition program available for most platforms. It doesn't offer specific Chinese support, but is general enough to work for almost everything and there are decks of flashcar... Read more.
mnemosyne-proj.org
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Olle Linge – almost 10 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
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Rebecca McKay – 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 Camera - Android App on Google Play
Save time doing dictionary lookups! Simply point your camera at some Chinese text to get all the English definitions. And everything works offline. Within just a couple of seconds of launching t... Read more.
play.google.com
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hanpingchinese – 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
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
瞎扯学中文 Convo Chinese
Convo Chinese is tailored for intermediate and advanced learners and dives into genuine Chinese dialogues spanning a wide range of topics from daily life to global politics. As the name implies, th... Read more.
podfollow.com
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Olle Linge – 3 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
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 – 5 months
JinbuPal
JinbuPal is a web app designed to help learners rapidly jumpstart their Chinese skills by focusing on maintaining continual noticeable progress. JinbuPal’s card-based system features individual cha... Read more.
jinbupal.com
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Mike Kennedy – over 1 year
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
Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar (Edwin G. Pulleyblank)
*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
Learning Classical Chinese is for everyone (no, seriously!)
Classical Chinese is something all learners will encounter, whether it's because it's part of a course you take, because you've started learning formal, written Chinese or simply because you want t... Read more.
hackingchinese.com
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Olle Linge – over 2 years
Language Reactor (formerly Language Learning with Netflix)
Language Reactor is a Chrome extension that helps you learn a language while watching your favorite Netflix show or videos on YouTube. It shows subtitles in your target language, in your native lan... Read more.
languagereactor.com
Jennifer – 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
M Mandarin (漫中文)
This is an app for iOS and Android which has a lot of content, much of it in the form of comics. You can also find the text for each comic separately, but not all the content is free. It’s a little... Read more.
funnybean.com
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Olle Linge – about 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
My Graph Paper (图形方格纸)
With this handy tool, you can create highly configurable graph paper for practising writing Chinese characters (and many other things). The tool is free to use and offers a large number of settings... Read more.
mygraphpaper.com
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Olle Linge – over 3 years
看剧学汉语 (Discord Server)
看剧学汉语 is a community on Discord, gathering more than a thousand members, both native speakers and learners. While 看剧 (as in "watch TV series) is part of the name, the server also covers lots of oth... Read more.
discord.gg
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Olle Linge – over 3 years
Classical Chinese Character Frequency List (古汉语单字频率列表)
Character frequencies for Classical Chinese (i.e. not based on texts). This resource was discussed in this article: [The most common Chinese words, characters and components for language learner... Read more.
lingua.mtsu.edu
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Olle Linge – about 5 years