The General Association of Chinese Culture (GACC), a department of the Taiwanese government, today launched the Chinese Language Knowledge Database 中華語文知識庫 (中华语文知识库 zhōnghuá yŭwén zhīshì kù) – An online dictionary that details the differences between the Chinese used in mainland … Continue reading
Those smug iPhone-owning Chinese-learning friends can wipe the smirk off their face – Pleco, the popular mobile Chinese Dictionary, has finally been officially released for Android, and it’s free. The free download is available either by searching in Android Market … Continue reading
We’re a couple of weeks late on this, but the PeraPera Chinese Pop-up Dictionary, which has been a Firefox favourite for a long time, has finally made its way to Google Chrome. Here’s what the developers had to say: Yes … Continue reading
Ideographer is a Taipei-based developer of small but useful Max OS X apps with a heavy focus on the Chinese language. I use their apps a lot during my day-to-day Chinese studies and writing here on ChineseHacks so I’d like … Continue reading
Here’s a great tip for making searching online Chinese dictionaries a lot easier and faster. It can be annoying when reading or writing Chinese online to have to type in the URL of the dictionary you want to search, then … Continue reading
The availability of Chinese dictionaries is often a deciding factor when buying a new mobile phone, which should make the following news music to the ears of Chinese learners everywhere – There is an Android version of the Pleco Chinese … Continue reading
Hanping Chinese dictionary for Android has been updated so much over the last few months that’s it’s hard to keep up. Hanping (Free, Pro) has been my dictionary of choice for Android since I started using it in early 2010 … Continue reading
If you’re a user of the amazing pop-up Chinese dictionary addon for Firefox, PeraPeraKun, then you’ll be happy to know that the dictionary database has been updated to the latest version of the CC-Cedict Chinese dictionary. And if you’re learning … Continue reading
Google Android as a mobile platform is becoming more and more widespread, which is a good thing for users as it means that more apps are being released, and the same is true for Chinese dictionary apps. Cidian Chinese Dictionary … Continue reading
It’s hard to learn Chinese without at some point coming across the CC-CEDICT dictionary, a Chinese – English dictionary originally started in 1997 by Paul Denisowski and now available as an open source project under the Creative Commons licence. CC-CEDICT … Continue reading
