Chinese Dictionary
Look up any Chinese word by its characters (Simplified or Traditional), by pinyin with or without tones, or by its English meaning. Every word has its own page with pinyin, meanings and stroke order.
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How to use the dictionary
- Type Chinese characters in Simplified or Traditional form to find the word and the longer words that start with it.
- Type pinyin with tone marks (jiā), tone numbers (jia1) or no tones at all (jia). Leave out the spaces between syllables: nihao.
- Type an English word to find Chinese words with that meaning.
Definitions come from CC-CEDICT, an open Chinese-English dictionary. Each entry page shows the stroke order of every character, and you can practise writing it right there.
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).