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Chinese script, Free Chinese fonts, Writing Chinese, Chinese computing, Chinese radio, Chinese newspapers, Chinese dictionaries, Chinese translation, Chinese courses, Chinese names, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese computing, Chinese philosophy, Chinese forums, Miscellaneous
Chinese script
中国文字研究与应用中心 (Center for the Study of Chinese Characters and Their Applications)
http://www.ideograms.org
A history of written Chinese
http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/visible/
Information about and articles on Chinese characters and the Chinese script
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character
http://www.chinaorbit.com/china-culture/chinese-characters.html
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/script.html
Pinyin/Zhuyin Converter - converts Chinese characters to pinyin or zhuyin
http://www.pin1yin1.com
Free Chinese fonts
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/edv/sinopc/chinese_fonts.htm
http://www.indeed.com.tw/download.html
http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/fonts.html
http://www.twinbridge.com
Chinese Translation
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Writing Chinese
Writing Chinese Characters - and how to count the strokes
http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/methods/bihua.htm
Animated Chinese characters - shows you how to write individual characters
http://ocrat.com/ocrat/chargif/
Videos showing you how to write Chinese characters stroke by stroke
http://www.chineselearner.com/writing/symbol/
Online Chinese radio
China Radio International - in Mandarin and many other languages
http://www.cri.com.cn
Beijing Music Radio (北京音乐台) - in Mandarin
http://fm974.tom.com
Radio Shanghai (上海人民广播电台) - in Mandarin
http://www.radioshanghai.com
Radio Taiwan International (中央廣播電台) - in Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, Cantonese and various other languages): http://www.cbs.org.tw
BCC (中國廣播電台) - in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Hakka
http://www.bcc.com.tw
Voice of Taipei (台北之聲) - in Mandarin and Taiwanese
http://www.vot.com.tw
RTHK (香港電台) - in Cantonese
http://www.rthk.org.hk
BBC World Service - in Mandarin and Cantonese
http://www.bbc.co.uk/chinese/
Radio Free Asia - in Mandarin and Cantonese
http://www.rfa.org/english/
Melody Studio - Chinese, Taiwanese and Cantonese music
http://www.melodystudio.com/
Online Chinese newspapers
China
People's Daily (人民日报)
http://www.peopledaily.com.cn
Taiwan
China Times (中時電子報)
http://news.chinatimes.com
Hong Kong
Ming Pao News (明報新聞網)
http://www.mingpaonews.com
Apple Daily (蘋果日報)
http://www.appledaily.com
Singapore
Lianhe Zaobao (联合早报)
http://www.zaobao.com
Online Chinese dictionaries
http://www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/ccdict/
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/sinotibe.html
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html
http://www.pristine.com.tw/resources/lexicon.php
http://zhongwen.com
http://www.tigernt.com/dict.shtml
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/dictionary.html
http://www.chinesedic.com
http://www.chinese-dictionary.org
http://www.kanjinetworks.com
http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-english-dictionary.htm
http://chdw.de
http://app.chinesesavvy.com/services/dictionary/DictionarySearchPO.ot
http://www.ilearnchinesehere.com
Picture-based Chinese character/word dictionary
http://www.vertical-sun.com/hanzi
Speaking Chinese English Dictionaries
http://moosenose.com/speakingpinyin.htm
http://app.chinesesavvy.com/services/dictionary/sentence/DictionarySentencePO.ot
Chinese Electronic talking dictionaries
http://www.ectaco.com
Chinese language resources - information, dictionaries, etc
http://www.chinalanguage.com
http://www.easechinese.com
Online Cantonese dictionary
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/scripts/wordsearch.php
Online Shanghainese/Wu dictionaries
http://dict.zanhe.com
http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/wudict.php
Online Taiwanese dictionary
http://daiwanway.dynip.com/cgi/tdict.acgi
Photo dictionary of rare Chinese characters (with explanations in Japanese)
http://homepage2.nifty.com/Gat_Tin/kanji/kaindex.htm
Online Chinese translation
Online translation from English into Chinese (Simplified & Traditional) of websites and text: http://www.readworld.com/tran
Online Chinese courses/lessons
Cantonese
http://www.khuang.com/chinese/cantonese.asp
http://www.chinawestexchange.com/Cantonese/
Mandarin
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm
http://www.chineseon.net
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm
http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/
http://www.chinese-lessons.com
http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/
http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese
http://www.zapchinese.com
http://www.sinoling.com
http://learnchinese.elanguageschool.net
http://www.clearchinese.com/learn-chinese/
http://www.effectivelanguage.com/mandarin.html
http://www.chinesepod.com
http://www.clearchinese.com
http://www.activechinese.com
http://www.china-8.com/cms/sites/china-8/section.cfm?id=12
http://parlezchinois.free.fr
http://www.loquella.com/learn-chinese
http://www.echineselearning.com
http://www.chinese-course.com
Mandarin phrases (some with audio)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/
http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/
http://www.chinaadviser.com/useful_chinese_phrases.html
http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/
http://www.slanguage.com/fun_chinese_mand.html
Shanghainese
http://www.linguasinica.com/Shanghai/
http://www.zanhe.com
http://www.shanghai.or.jp/zw/shanghai/
Taiwanese
http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/
http://www.tacpa.org/wdcts/mtl/intro.html
http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/taiwanese/
Basic lessons in Mandarin, Taiwanese, Shanghainese and Hakka
http://www.hqpin.com/eindex.html
China Online - inlcudes articles, phrases and information about Chinese languages
http://www.chinaonline.cn.com/chinese_language.html
Online resources for learning Mandarin
http://www.chinesetools.eu
HyperChina - an interactive Mandarin Chinese course on CD-ROM http://www.sinologic.com/HyperChina.html
Chinese Phrases for Travellers (with audio)
http://chinese.travel-way.net
Chinese Writing Master - software that helps you learn how to write Chinese characters
http://www.cchar.com
Early Learning - Chinese: Free printable bilingual (English- Mandarin Chinese) materials and tips for parents, homeschoolers, caregivers, daycare/child-care providers, babysitters, or anyone who works with young children who are learning chinese/english
http://www.earlylearning-chinese.com
Chinese names
Your name in Chinese
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
http://www.qualitylanguage.com/name_translator.htm
http://www.transname.com
http://www.chinese-tools.com/names
http://www.chinesenames.org
http://www.chine-informations.com/mods/prenoms/
http://definingcharacters.com
A guide to the hundred most common Chinese surnames
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3919/hundred.html
An introduction to Chinese names and other interesting facts about Chinese language and culture: http://www.wlu.edu/~hhill/btl.html
Chinese calligraphy, translation and design - get your name in beautiful Chinese calligraphy: http://www.transname.com
Chinese calligraphy
http://www.chinapage.com/callig1.html
http://www.asiawind.com/art/callig/calligal.htm
http://www.tongram.com/gallery/default.asp
http://home.flash.net/~cameron/calligraphy/collection.htm
http://www.rice-paper.com/uses/calligraphy.html
Chinese computing
The Complete Guide to Chinese Computing
http://www.chinesecomputing.com/
An introduction to Chinese Input Methods http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/cjk/input.html#chinese
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Chinese-input-methods-for-computer
The Cangjie Input Method
http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/methods/cangjie.htm
InputKing - a program for inputting Chinese text online
http://www.inputking.com
Guide to reading Chinese on the internet
http://www.cathay.net/help/read-chn.shtml
Beautiful Chinese wallpaper for your computer
http://www.desktopchina.com/desktopchina/
SIMO - enables you to input Chinese through browsers
http://www.simo.us
Chinese philosophy
The Daodejing (Tao-te-ching) by Laozi (Lao-tzu) in Chinese and English
http://www.chinapage.com/laotze.html
Chinese Text Project - texts of ancient Chinese philosophy online
http://chinese.dsturgeon.net
Chinese forums
http://www.chinese-forums.com
http://www.omnitalk.com
http://www.chinesesavvy.com/savvy/
Miscellaneous
Chinese Tools - online tools to learn chinese or build chinese websites. Includes annotation tools, dictionaries, and converters for pinyin, unicode, traditional and simplified chinese: http://www.chinese-tools.com
Chinesesavvy - a variety of resources for students of Chinese, including an online dictionary, articles on Chinese culture and history, forums, etc/
http://www.chinesesavvy.com/savvy/
Interesting Chinese - information about Chinese language, history and culture
http://www.interestingchinese.com
Free Chinese New Year E-cards
http://www.chinesenewyearecards.com
http://www.123greetings.com/events/chinese_new_year/
Convert Chinese characters to Unicode
This tool will convert Chinese characters (and just about everything else, including Japanese hiragana, katakana, and kanji; tonal Hanyu Pinyin; and Cyrillic script) into the decimal (not hex) form of Unicode numerical character references (NCRs). These NCRs can then be used in Web pages, with greater ease than the Chinese characters themselves for those whose operating systems or other software don't handle double-byte text well.
For example, 台北, the characters for "Taipei" (Táiběi), can also be written as 台北. For this to work, the "charset" of the Web page should be set to Unicode:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
It's generally better, however, to use the characters themselves rather than their Unicode NCRs in cases where a Web page has a lot of Chinese text, because Chinese characters take up less file space than their NCRs.
http://www.pinyin.info/tools/converter/chars2uninumbers.html
Convert Chinese Charactor To Pin Yin
http://www.purpleculture.net/pinyin_old.asp
Information about written and spoken Chinese on this site
- The Chinese writing system
- Evolution of characters
- Types of characters
- Chinese numerals
- Simplified characters
- Phonetic transcription of Chinese
- Spoken Chinese: Cantonese, Dungan, Gan, Hakka, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Teochew, Xiang
- Braille for Chinese
Recommended books
Books about Chinese characters and calligraphy
Classical Chinese, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Hokkien, Taiwanese and Cantonese language courses, dictionaries, etc.
