![]() What I use it for: Etymology, character components, horizontal character learning Pros: Clean interface, easy to use, handwriting recognition, stroke order, soundĬons: Sometimes inadequate English definitions (true for most dictionaries, though) What I use it for: This is my default dictionary in this category Online dictionaries mainly relying on English Online corpora and other sentence sources.Offline dictionaries you should check out.Online dictionaries for traditional Chinese.Online dictionaries mainly relying on Chinese.Online dictionaries mainly relying on English.I have sorted these sources into the following categories: I haven’t used enough paper dictionaries to evaluate them properly and most learners don’t bother with paper dictionaries today anyway. This article about digital resources, so even if I mention offline dictionaries, they are still digital. People who really want to explore other dictionaries will do that without my having to write about it. This is because I know most learners are after simple and effective solutions. In fact, I have tried to keep the list as short as possible (it’s still quite long). My goal here isn’t to give you a list of all available dictionaries. Note that I’m not looking for dictionaries that can do things that those below can already do well. ![]() I also hope that you might give me suggestions of dictionaries that might replace those I list below. In this article, I will share with you my favourite dictionaries, including why I think they are good, what I use them for and what drawbacks they (all) have. The bad news is that I still haven’t found a good dictionary that can do everything I want it to do, but the good news is that I have found several different dictionaries that among them can handle most of the questions I have. I have studied Chinese for some time now and have used a number of difference dictionaries. If you want to read about the issue, I suggest you head over to Albert Wolfe’s article about the shortcomings of CE dictionaries. This article isn’t about the problem itself though, but how to overcome it. This is mostly true for Chinese-English (and English-Chinese) dictionaries, but it’s also true for Chinese-Chinese dictionaries (in short, they don’t work very well for learners). Most learners of Chinese soon realise that available dictionaries have some serious problems.
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