English-Chinese-English Online Dictionary

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Hi All,

 

John Oomkens, a colleague in Ireland, alerted me to an English-

Chinese-English Online Dictionary at:

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict_welcome.php?page=translate

 

Many thanks, John. I had not seen that one.

 

John wrote:

> This is a free online Chinese English dictionary offering: A word

> dictionary, search details about Chinese words using: English

> definition, Chinese characters Mandarin pinyin, A character

> dictionary, search details about Chinese characters using: English

> definition, Chinese characters, Mandarin pinyin, Yale Cantonese Radical

> / strokes, Cangjie; Animated images are included to help you write

> Chinese characters; A Chinese sentence lookup, this lets you find all

> separate Chinese words in a sentence automatically; Support for both

> simplified and traditional Chinese characters; Integrated Babelfish

> translations; Flashcards for learning new characters / words; Online

> Chinese input method, for typing Chinese on non-Chinese enabled

> computers. This dictionary was made to help anyone interested in

> learning the Chinese language.

> http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict_welcome.php?page=translate

 

Novices should note that its translation of TCM terms is poor. Also, one

must know beforehand that the hanzi is in simple or formal script.

 

For example, I entered the formal Hanzi chartacters for:

liu4 jing1 tou2 tong4~tai4 yang2 jing1

[six Channel Headache~Taiyang Channel]

and it returned:

 

six classics / sacred book / pass through / to undergo / scripture

headache~sun classics / sacred book / pass through / to undergo /

scripture

 

That said, if one has a basic idea of the meaning of the term, one could

work out a reasonable translation from the dictionary. Also, it has online

audio of each character.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best regards,

 

 

Tel: (H): +353-(0) or (M): +353-(0)

 

 

 

 

Ireland.

Tel: (W): +353-(0) or (M): +353-(0)

 

 

 

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Chinese Proverb