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A Chinese-English Glossary of Botanical Terms

http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/Glossary/

Compiled by Susan Marie Rossi-Wilcox; searchable by English, Pinyin, or character. (GB, GIF)

A Dictionary of the Pinyin Language

http://www.pinyinology.com/zidian/intro.html

Zhang Juli’s proposal for an alphabetical dictionary of Chinese. Organized by letter but without search, contains some WMA format pronunciation links.

A Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in HKEx

http://www.hkex.com.hk/glossary/glossary.htm

Investment and securities terminology from the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing House. (Big5)

AIDS Glossary Main Page

http://casy.org/Glossary/glossary_main.htm

The China AIDS Survey’s English-Chinese and Chinese-English glossaries with translations of more than 250 AIDS and HIV related terms and phrases. (UTF-8)

An English-Chinese Glossary of IT Terms

http://www.ogcio.gov.hk/eng/itaware/eglomenu.htm

Information Technology words commonly used by the Hong Kong Government. (Big5)

An English-Chinese IT Glossary

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~colips/archives/glossary/glossary.html

Koh Chit Tng’s compilation of terminology used in Information Technology. (GB, Big5)

CantoDict

http://www.cantodict.org

Adam Sheik's CCDICT server provides a collaborative online English/Cantonese/Mandarin database, classifying over 13,000 words by usage as oral Cantonese only, written Mandarin Chinese, or both. (UTF-8)

CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary

http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html

Volunteer lexicographic project (inspired by Japanese EDICT) that Paul Denisowski began and Erik Peterson maintains. It currently contains 25,807 Big5 words and 23,512 GB words. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)

CHinDEX

http://www.cybertearoom.de/chindex/

Hartmut Bohn’s online index to "A Chinese-English Dictionary" and "Das neue Chinesisch-Deutsche Wörterbuch," indexed by radical, Pinyin, Four Corner and stroke count. (GB, JavaScript)

Chinese Character Database: With Word-formations Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Canto

http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can/

Dictionary server with 13,060 characters, searchable by radical, stroke, Cantonese (in seven romanization systems) initial, final, or tone. Provides English translation, pronunciations (JavaScript), homophones, compound words, dictionary references, etc. (Big5)

Chinese Character Dictionary

http://chineselanguage.org/CCDICT/

Chineselanguage.org’s CEDICT server, searchable by English keyword; radical-stroke; Pinyin, Hakka, Cantonese, Sino-Japanese, or Sino-Korean pronunciation; Four Corner or Cangjie input, or character code. (UTF-8)

Chinese Characters Dictionary Web

http://zhongwen.com/zi.htm

Rick Harbaugh’s site hyperlinks across thirteen major online dictionaries at the character-to-character level. Search by radical, character, or English. Also adds definition links to Chinese text. (GB, Big5)

Chinese Computer Terminology

http://ccts.cs.cuhk.edu.hk/

Interface to Hong Kong and PRC dictionary databases, searchable by English or traditional/simplified Chinese keywords, with bitmap or text display, Pinyin and Cantonese pronunciations (WAV). (Big5, GB, GIF)

Chinese Text Project Dictionary

http://chinese.dsturgeon.net/dictionary.pl?if=en

Classical Chinese character dictionary with lookup by character or radical-stroke. Provides Chinese dictionary references; Mandarin, Cantonese, and reconstructed Tang pronunciations; meanings; and example usages linked to searchable database of ancient Chinese texts. (UTF-8)

Chinese Tools

http://www.chinesetools.eu

Site provides Chinese-English tools for words, kinship terms, and personal names; and converters for currency, calendar, character codes, etc. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)

Chinese Words Database

http://www.chinese-word.com

English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary for tattoo and art design. (JPEG)

Chinese-English Dictionary

http://www.earthoffice.net/worddict.php

Ganesa Media Labs’ interface for CEDICT, with search by traditional/simplified Chinese, Pinyin, or English. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)

Chinese-English dictionary

http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-english-dictionary.htm

Clear Chinese's CEDICT interface can be searched by Chinese characters, Pinyin, or English. Chinese pronunciation AIF files are available. (UTF-8)

Chinese-English Dictionary

http://wordstube.com/chinese-english/dictionary

WordsTube's CEDICT interface, searchable by English, Chinese, or pinyin, allows registered users to save and practice vocabulary. (UTF-8)

Chinese-English Online Dictionary

http://www.tigernt.com/cedict.shtml

TigerNT’s CEDICT server searchable by character, Pinyin, or English. (GB, Big5, GIF)

Chinese-English-French Dictionary

http://www.chinesedic.com

Search by traditional or simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, or French. Provides AIF pronunciation links.

Chinese-Tools.com

http://www.chinese-tools.com

Site provides Chinese-English, English-Chinese, and Chinese-French dictionaries; traditional/simplified and Chinese/Unicode converters; and Pinyin dictionary annotation tools. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)

CJKV-English Dictionary

http://www.buddhism-dict.net/dealt/

Charles Muller’s database of CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese) characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political, and intellectual history.(UTF-8)

Daoist Studies Glossary of Chinese Terms on Daoism/Taoism

http://www.daoiststudies.org/glossary.php

James Miller’s list of common Daoist terminology, in Pinyin and Wade-Giles romanization systems. (UTF-8)

Database Query to Chinese Characters

http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/query.cgi?flags=eygtnn&basename=%5Cdata%5Cchina%5Cbigchina&recode=yes&hiero=gif

Sergei Starostin's The Tower of Babel Etymological Database Project contains around 4000 Chinese characters, with readings in modern Pinyin, Japanese, Sino-Vietnamese, Middle Chinese, and Old Chinese. It links to Chinese dialectal and Sino-Tibetan information, gives English translations, etc. (UTF-8)

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