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- Search by Chinese, Pinyin, or English.
- Search by handwriting recognition.
Finding a Chinese character when you don't already know its pronunciation has traditionally been a daunting
process even for native Chinese speakers. With our handwritten Chinese recognition all you need to
do is to draw the character using your mouse in the proper stroke order. As you do that, the possible
matches are shown on the right. When the desired character appears, simply click on it.
- Search by Radical and Stroke Count. This is the traditional way to search for Chinese characters. You'll need to make an educated guess as to which is the radical of the character.
- Search commonly used characters by their structure and components.
Our advanced character search tab allows you to locate characters that have the specified character structure (e.g. left/right or top/bottom) and the
specific components. The components can be characters or radicals. A great way to find characters that
are related by their meaning, pronunciation, or structure.
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- Word Decomposition into
their component words and characters, a great way to remember new words and a unique feature of the Chinese
language. View Sample.
 Words pronounced for you just by clicking on the white speech bubble icon.- Words sharing the same head word or tail word lets you gain a better understanding
of a word's meaning and proper usage. View Sample.
- Character Details. Detailed information about individual characters, including a list of commonly used words that use the character. View Sample.
- Etymological Decomposition.
Our Etymology Explorer allows you to drill down into the character components one layer at a time or
how other characters incorporate the current one. This unique feature helps you visualize how characters
relate to each other semantically and phonetically, greatly facilitating their memorization. View Sample
- Stroke Order. View animated stroke
order for writing the character. Now supporting to ALL characters in modern use. View Sample
- Extensive Integrated Database of over 200,000 entries is seamlessly integrated with our database of over 20,000 characters.
Our character dictionary provides details about individual characters, their etymology, stroke order, etc.
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- Partial matches allows to easily
find words that begin with, end with or contain certain characters or pinyin syllables. In addition, you
can control the length of the words matched.
- Fuzzy pinyin match makes it easy to
find words even when you are not sure of the correct pronunciation. You can control the degree of fuzziness
from just ignoring tones to forcing matches pinyin syllables that sound similar to Chinese learners,
such as the z/zh initials and the n/ng finals.
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- Derived words helps understand proper word usage.
- Sound alike words helps beginning learners.
- Topical word lists gives you instant access to a list of words in the same topic. For example,
when viewing the entry for "apple", you can easily access the list of fruit names.
- Proficiency test level, according to popular standards such as the HSK.
- Search any character by its structure and components.
- Additional etymological character data.
Lists the characters that contain the current character, either as a phonetic components or as a non-phonetic
component.
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