Comments on: Vocabulary

By: Franz

Franz — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:22:53 +0000

Should take a look at : http://www.cozychinese.com/dictionary

Suggestions are provided as you type. Very nice.

By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Ethnography (not) in Translation

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:11:19 +0000

[...] What to do? It would help if there was a simple way to see which books have been translated. Finding translations is an art of its own, requiring some fancy use of Google’s advanced search features. But more useful might be setting up some kind of translation wiki like what my friend has set up for the China Study Group website. [...]

By: kotaji 거타지 :: Asian History Carnival #9 :: November :: 2006

kotaji 거타지 :: Asian History Carnival #9 :: November :: 2006 — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:46:02 +0000

[...] Anyone who studies East Asian history will have to grapple with Chinese characters at some point or other, so Kerim’s post gathering together some useful online Chinese tools should be handy, even if you aren’t trying to find out how to write Tom Cruise in Chinese. [...]

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:53:14 +0000

Thanks for the useful hints and links!

Here’s another very versatile online dictionary you might want to check out:

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=main

Yet another Chinese-English one:

http://www.tigernt.com/dict.shtml

A very nice tool for in-depth study of Chinese characters plus lots of other things:

http://zhongwen.com/

Also useful:

http://www.chinalanguage.com/

By: tf

tf — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 16:04:56 +0000

This is my favorite inter-language dictionary site:

http://www.wordreference.com/

What I like about it is that it not only provides traditional dictionary translations, it also refers you to its forum discussions, if someone mentioned the word in question.

For instance, look up the word “professor” in the English-French dictionary,

http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/professor

and you get referred to a forum in which someone asked how to address a college professor in France:

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=218226

Unfortunately, the site does not support Chinese.