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Chinese Etymology can be useful sometimes This is the other side of the coin to it being good for your Chinese you have to put some effort in.ĥ.

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The online dictionaries constantly update with new vocabulary. Similarly, you have to buy a new edition if you want the latest content.This will cost you quite a lot of money, especially for the latest edition. Looking up words in a paper dictionary is good for your Chinese - you have to learn to recognise radicals and break characters down into their components.Comes with audio CD and has good example sentences and word relations the online dictionaries don’t win here.Very well researched you’re not going to find a lot of errors or low-quality information here.

#List of popular dictionaries how to#

As I do most of my study and work at a computer I don’t usually use a paper dictionary, but it’s still useful to have one and to know how to use it. Oxford Chinese Dictionary is an excellent paper dictionaryįinally, a paper dictionary! I like this one because it’s big enough to be comprehensive but not so big that it’s too heavy to lug to lectures. The handwriting recognition seems to work only in Internet Explorer, and even then it has to start and load a Java applet.It doesn’t display well in many browsers and is generally a bit garish. Has a lot of the functionality of Wenlin but you don’t have to pay a penny for it.Good quality audio for characters and words.

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Extremely detailed in other ways input methods, encoding, frequency and etymology are all there, plus much more.Gives phonetics for each character in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese.

However, a clunky interface and bad compatibility knocks this to third place for me. The features are as numerous as nciku’s, with a few differences. The YellowBridge website may be a bit of an antique, but the content is excellent. YellowBridge is a third option for online Mandarin dictionaries

The handwriting recognition doesn’t load instantly like nciku’s, and isn’t so well-integrated into the interface.ģ.

It also lacks some of the extra features of other online dictionaries.

Not as comprehensive as nciku, nor as detailed as YellowBridge.

Has some useful guides and mini-tools alongside the dictionary.

Handwriting recognition that works very well.

Skritter integration! You can add vocabulary to your Skritter lists directly from MDBG definition pages.

Nice, clean interface that loads quickly and is easy to navigate.

It’s by far the fastest of the sites listed here, and gets some good features into a simple interface. MDBG isn’t very beautiful, but it’s a great dictionary.

It really can be slow to load, or not load at all sometimes.

The automatic audio-generation is quite useful, but it might be better to hear real recordings of individual words.

John Pasden covers this at Sinosplice: incorrect nciku example sentences.

Sometimes the example sentences are not as well-researched as they should be.

In Firefox, for example, the nciku search overrides Firefox’s search box, forcing you to close the tab to use Firefox search.

Offers community and other online-learning features.

Nicely designed and compatible with many browsers.

More search options the handwriting recognition is fantastic, and you can search by radical as you would in a paper dictionary.

Very comprehensive and detailed - it even has obscure scientific or technical jargon, and has masses of example sentences (Chinese Boost also has a nice collection of example sentences).

The automatedĪudio-generation is a mixed blessing, though, and it tends to be quite slow to It offers pretty muchĮvery feature that other dictionaries do, plus some extras. In my view, nciku is the best online Mandarin dictionary. nciku is probably the best Chinese dictionary

Really have to have an excellent combination of features and content in order toīe useful. World, but Mandarin is certainly difficult to learn, so Chinese dictionaries The best Chinese dictionaries have so much to offer that it’s hard to chooseīetween them (although online Mandarin dictionaries could still do a lot