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  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS!  中國語言 = Languages of China

    A searchable dictionary of pronunciations and meanings of Mandarin, Cantonese, and Hakka (Kejia) for 53,000+ Chinese characters. Multiple search methods include Hanyu Pinyin, Cantonese, English, four-corner, bushou (radicals), etc.
    (Added: 22-Mar-2002   /   Hits [2013- ]: 11)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS!  在綫新華字典

    An online Chinese dictionary with over 520,000 entries. Searchable by radicals or pinyin. With detailed explanation of meanings and related phrases.
    (Added: 20-Nov-2007   /   Hits [2013- ]: 15)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS!  林語堂當代漢英詞典 = Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage

    The dictionary comprises a total of 8,169 head characters, together with 44,407 explanatory entries of grammatical usage and 40,379 entries of Chinese words or phrases. Both search mode and browse mode are available.
    (Added: 8-Apr-2000   /   Hits [2013- ]: 13)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS!  漢典

    An online dictionary for looking up simplified Chinese characters and idioms. For characters, it provides pinyin (with sound), changjie, unicode value, explanation of phrases, as well as citations from 康熙字典 and 說文解字.
    (Added: 11-Jul-2007   /   Hits [2013- ]: 29)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS!  異體字字典 = Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants

    Created and maintained by Mandarin Promotion Council, Ministry of Education, R.O.C., this dictionary contains more than 10 thousands characters and can be searched by strokes and radicals. It also includes many useful tables.
    (Added: 9-Oct-2001   /   Hits [2013- ]: 8)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS!  粵語審音配詞字庫 = Chinese Character Database: With Word-formations

    An online syllabary of the Cantonese dialect. For each character it provides Cantonese pronunciations, typical word-forms, homophones, internal codes (Big5 and Unicode), Cangjie input code, related syllables, and hyperlinks to various online resources.
    (Added: 14-Jul-2003   /   Hits [2013- ]: 16)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS!  線上英漢字典 = English-Chinese Dictionary

    An online English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary with sources of definitions listed.
    (Added: 8-Sep-2005   /   Hits [2013- ]: 16)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS!  縱橫在線中文字典 = CKC Online Chinese Dictionary HOT! NEW

    Covers both simplified and traditional characters with pronunciations of Putonghua and Cantonese. Searchable by code, character, pronunciations of Putonghua or Cantonese. Displays also strokes and links to other online dictionaries. Developed by the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
    (Added: 7-May-2013   /   Hits [2013- ]: 38)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS!  重編國語辭典修訂本

    Developed by Dept. of Education of Taiwan, this comprehensive Chinese dictionary provides rich entries on words and phrases of all subjects, biographies of Chinese and foreigners. It is equipped with a sophisticated search engine and includes 11 full text books on Chinese philology and 19 appendixes which can be used as handbooks.
    (Added: 10-Jan-2000   /   Hits [2013- ]: 8)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS!  金山詞霸 HOT!

    An online English-Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary. Some entries have online pronunciation available.
    (Added: 8-Sep-2005   /   Hits [2013- ]: 63)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Acronym Finder

    Provides a searchable database containing over 60,000 acronyms/abbreviations and their meanings. The focus of the database is technology, telecommunications, and the military, but many general topics are also included. Users can also search for acronyms related to a particular word or topic using the advanced search function.
    (Added: 4-Dec-1998   /   Hits [2013- ]: 7)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Acronyma

    An index of over 450,000 acronyms and abbreviations. May search by word or by acronym.
    (Added: 14-Nov-2005   /   Hits [2013- ]: 7)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Bartleby.com : Great Books Online

    Offers complete electronic version of preeminent contemporary reference works, e.g. Columbia Encyclopedia; The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language; Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, etc. There are also full text of many classic works, e.g. Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Oxford Book of English Verse, etc.
    (Added: 17-Nov-1999   /   Hits [2013- ]: 11)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Cambridge Dictionaries Online

    Includes Cambridge International Dictionary of English, Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, and Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Each word is accompanied by an example on how the word is used in a sentence.
    (Added: 13-Jan-2001   /   Hits [2013- ]: 23)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

    Comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog 'words with a tale to tell.' This is the 1898 edition of the print copy.
    (Added: 13-Mar-1998   /   Hits [2013- ]: 8)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Dictionary of Slang

    A reference guide to the slangs and colloquialisms common to the British speech. The origins of the expressions are included, if known.
    (Added: 18-Jun-2002   /   Hits [2013- ]: 8)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Dictionary.com: Translator

    A language translator to translate from English to other languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. and vice versa.
    (Added: 11-Oct-2004   /   Hits [2013- ]: 10)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! English-Chinese Online Dictionary

    Also contains a Chinese-English online dictionary.
    (Added: 18-Jun-2002   /   Hits [2013- ]: 11)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Glossaries of Terms Commonly Used in Government Departments = 政府部門常用辭彙

    Compiled by the Official Languages Agency (OLA) and made up of 20 plus glossaries, each covering a specific subject. The some 100,000 terms collected are mostly taken from government documents and related ordinances.
    (Added: 17-Mar-2003   /   Hits [2013- ]: 8)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! LOGOS Dictionary

    This freely accessible database has over 7,000,000 entries in 30 languages. Users can type in a word and the database will translate the word in different languages.
    (Added: 13-Mar-1998   /   Hits [2013- ]: 6)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: Ldoce Free Online Dictionary

    An online version of the CD-ROM of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Updated Edition. Selected words with examples or pictures.
    (Added: 30-Aug-2006   /   Hits [2013- ]: 13)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Merriam-Webster Online

    The World Wide Web edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus. Other features includes Word of the Day, Word Game, and Word of the Wise.
    (Added: 29-Jan-1997   /   Hits [2013- ]: 7)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! nciku: Online English Chinese Dictionary = 線上英漢字典與翻譯

    An online dictionary with over 850,000 Chinese entries and 750,000 English entries. Search with Pinyin, Chinese, or English.
    (Added: 15-Dec-2008   /   Hits [2013- ]: 10)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! OneLook Dictionaries [Meta-Site]

    Searches for words/acronyms over 229 dictionaries and more than 1,600,000 words simultaneously or over specific category dictionaries.
    (Added: 4-Dec-1998   /   Hits [2013- ]: 7)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Online Chinese Dictionary

    Provides translations of terms and phrases in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese or Russia.
    (Added: 10-Oct-2006   /   Hits [2013- ]: 8)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Phrase Finder

    A list of the meanings and origins of over a thousand phrases, sayings, quotes and cliches in English.
    (Added: 13-Sep-2002   /   Hits [2013- ]: 10)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Symbols.com

    Online version of Carl Liungman's Thought Signs (1995), itself an updated and expanded version of his Dictionary of Symbols. Contains more than 2,500 Western signs, organized into 54 groupings based on graphic characteristics, and has 1,600 brief articles that discuss the history and meaning of the ideograms. Searchable by graphics and words.
    (Added: 15-Jan-1999   /   Hits [2013- ]: 6)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Visuwords: Online Graphical Dictionary

    Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Uses Princeton University's WordNet and combined it with a visualization tools. The results are presented by diagrams reminiscent of a neural net.
    (Added: 24-Feb-2010   /   Hits [2013- ]: 7)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Webopedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions

    A free glossary of words, phrases, and abbreviations related to computer and Internet technology. Also provides links to research in the fields of computer and information technologies.
    (Added: 12-Jul-2007   /   Hits [2013- ]: 6)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

    A searchable Web dictionary with an integrated thesaurus. Its headword list is approximately 50,000. Entries contain definition, pronunciation, synonyms, examples, etc.
    (Added: 13-Mar-1998   /   Hits [2013- ]: 9)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! WordWeb Online

    A dictionary and word finder with more than 280,000 possible lookup words and phrases. Covers American, British, Australian, Canadian and Asian English spellings and words.
    (Added: 19-Apr-2006   /   Hits [2013- ]: 7)
  • CLICK ME TO SHOW/HIDE THE DETAILS! yourDictionary.com [Meta-Site]

    A language portal with more than 1,500 dictionaries representing over 230 languages. Includes language and subject dictionaries, and also an interactive translator of text and Web pages.
    (Added: 4-Dec-1998   /   Hits [2013- ]: 7)


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