Chinese Language & Chinese Translation
Information and resources on Chinese language & Chinese language translation. The Chinese language, one of the Sino-Tibetan languages, is spoken largely in the east and southeast of China, by people referred to ethnically as the Hans, the name of an ancient dynasty that flourished in the Huang He (Hwang Ho) basin. Much of north and northwest China falls in the domain of the Ural-Altaic languages–a far-flung family that includes Mongolian, Japanese, and Korean. Southwest China has many speakers of Tibeto-Karen and Austro-Tai languages. Although called dialects, the many regional varieties of Chinese are as different from one another as French is from Spanish or as English is from German. Below are links to information about the Chinese languages.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Chinese and English Characters Dictionary
Insert the Chinese characters and receive the English word most resembling your request.
Chinese Character Pronunciations Guide
Input (copy-and-paste) any Chinese text and obtain the transliterated pronunciation of each Chinese character
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire: Chinese Learning and Teaching Resources Guide
Find resources on computing and Chinese, college programs, East Asian journals, dictionaries, and links.
Madarin Tools
Quiz yourself with Chinese character flashcards or use handy Romanization and calendar converters.
Sinologic.com: Chinese Learner's Alternative Resources Guide
Cut your new language teeth on beginner's site with plenty of content.
Toyogakuen University, Japan: Chinese-Japanese-Korean-English Dictionary
Browse this huge dictionary database for research in East Asian pre-modern texts.
University of Goettingen, Germany: Kanji Base English-Chinese Dictionary
Use the PinYin, FourCorner, Radical, or Total strokes for character reference in your search.
University of Maryland, College Park: Chinese Multimedia Tutorial and Resources Guide
Listen to basic phrases in Chinese and learn simple greetings.
Uppsala University, Sweden: Swedish-English-Chinese Glossary
Try out this first attempt at a Swedish-English-Chinese dictionary.
Zhongwen.com: Chinese Character Guid
Use the Chinese Character Genealogy dictionary to learn Chinese characters.
Zhongwen.com: Chinese Characters Dictionary
Use linked character dictionaries to check the same entry without having to re-search.