credits
On the shoulders of giants.Below is a list of all sources we used. Please click on the links to find a description of each source and the respective terms of use.
- Unihan Database Character informations
- CC-Cedict Meanings of characters and words
- HanDeDict Meanings of characters and words
- Wiktionary Meanings of characters and words
- Shaunak Kishore's "Make me a hanzi" Animated and un-animated character svgs, decomposition type and hints for memorization
- animcjk Animated and un-animated character svgs
- chise Decompositions
- arphic Character svgs
- babelstone Character svgs
- Jun Da's character frequency lists Rank of characters
- Gábor Ugray's handwriting recognition Drawing board
- audio-cmn Sound files
about
The only reason for this page is to assist its humble developers in their noble goal to learn Mandarin.No plan to be perfect (neither this page nor the developer's Mandarin).
We tested it with several browsers. It looks terrible in MSIE, but fairly ok in other browsers.
It is optimized for speed.
Proudly built without Java, PHP, Ruby, MySQL, Postgres, NoSQL and all the other fancy stuff.
Also only with a minimum of Javascript (for toggling color scheme and pinyin display).
We have no ads, no third party content, no sponsors, no cookies, no user tracking. We do not even log what you are reading.
So please feel free to look up the juiciest, spiciest, dirtiest characters. Nobody will know, nobody will care.
help
Everything that is not black is a link and can be clicked.Top Navigation:
- Link to entry page
- Get a random character from the >9000 most common characters
- Get a random word from more than 180.000 words
- Lists of characters sorted by strokes, radical, pinyin or rank
- Enter one or more characters (e.g. 爱 or 不确定性原理 , number of strokes (e.g. 12), pinyin of one character (e.g. duì or dui) or Unicode (e.g. U+5B50)
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Scribble a hanzi on the drawing board and have it looked up
- Toggle 拼音. This needs javascript.
- Toggle the color scheme. This needs javascript.
Second Navigation:
- Dictionary entries for words and characters
- Decomposition of character into components
- Decomposition of word into characters
- Similar characters, super-characters, phonetic predecessors, phonetic heirs
- Words or phrases containing the current character or word
- Links to other dictionaries
- Characters having the same components as the current character. E.g. 杲 果, 杳
- Characters which are kind of similar to the current character.
E.g. 布 币. We are still experimenting with similarity heuristics.
- Phonetic predecessors. E.g. 蓬 逢 夆 丰
- List of direct phonetic heirs. E.g. 古 估, 咕, 嘏, 固, 居, ...
- Characters that contain the current character (as radical or otherwise). E.g. 告 造, 靠, 浩, ...
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- Words starting. E.g. 国+ : 国家, ...
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- Words ending. E.g. +国 : 中国, 美国, 我国, ...
- +□+
- Words containing. E.g. +国+ : 中国人, ...
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