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A Chinese-English Glossary of Botanical Terms - http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/Glossary/
Compiled by Susan Marie Rossi-Wilcox; searchable by English, Pinyin, or character. (GB, GIF)

A Dictionary of the Pinyin Language - http://www.pinyinology.com/zidian/intro.html
Zhang Juli’s proposal for an alphabetical dictionary of Chinese. Organized by letter but without search, contains some WMA format pronunciation links.

A Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in HKEx - http://www.hkex.com.hk/glossary/glossary.htm
Investment and securities terminology from the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing House. (Big5)

CantoDict - http://www.cantodict.org
Adam Sheik's CCDICT server provides a collaborative online English/Cantonese/Mandarin database, classifying over 13,000 words by usage as oral Cantonese only, written Mandarin Chinese, or both. (UTF-8)

CC-CEDICT Home - http://cc-cedict.org/
A downloadable Chinese-English dictionary with pinyin pronunciation for the Chinese characters. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)

CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary - http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html
Volunteer lexicographic project (inspired by Japanese EDICT) that Paul Denisowski began and Erik Peterson maintains.(Big5, GB, UTF-8)

Chinese Character Database - http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can/
Dictionary server searchable by radical, stroke, Cantonese (in seven romanization systems) initial, final, or tone. Provides English translation, pronunciations, homophones, compound words, and dictionary references.

Chinese Character Stroke Order Animation and Dictionary - http://www.archchinese.com/arch_animation.html
Arch Chinese's character or phrase interface searchable by Pinyin, English, or characters. Additionally provides animated stroke orders, flashcards, and worksheets. (UTF-8)

Chinese Characters Dictionary Web - http://zhongwen.com/zi.htm
Rick Harbaugh’s site hyperlinks across thirteen major online dictionaries at the character-to-character level. Search by radical, character, or English. Also adds definition links to Chinese text. (GB, Big5)

Chinese Computer Terminology - http://ccts.cs.cuhk.edu.hk/
Interface to Hong Kong and PRC dictionary databases, searchable by English or traditional/simplified Chinese keywords, with bitmap or text display, Pinyin and Cantonese pronunciations (WAV). (Big5, GB, GIF)

Chinese Dictionary - http://mandarinspot.com/dict
MandarinSpot's MDBG Chinese-English server with search by traditional or simplified characters, pinyin, or English. (UTF-8)

Chinese Text Project Dictionary - http://chinese.dsturgeon.net/dictionary.pl?if=en
Classical Chinese character dictionary with lookup by character or radical-stroke. Provides Chinese dictionary references; Mandarin, Cantonese, and reconstructed Tang pronunciations; meanings; and example usages linked to searchable database of ancient Chinese texts. (UTF-8)

Chinese Tools - http://www.chinesetools.eu
Site provides Chinese-English tools for words, kinship terms, and personal names; and converters for currency, calendar, character codes, etc. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)

Chinese Words Database - http://www.chinese-word.com
English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary for tattoo and art design. (JPEG)

Chinese-English dictionary - http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-english-dictionary.htm
Clear Chinese's CEDICT interface can be searched by Chinese characters, Pinyin, or English. Chinese pronunciation AIF files are available. (UTF-8)

Chinese-English Dictionary - http://www.earthoffice.net/worddict.php
Ganesa Media Labs’ interface for CEDICT, with search by traditional/simplified Chinese, Pinyin, or English. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)

Chinese-English Dictionary - http://www.ourchinese.org/Dictionary.asp
Our Chinese's server searchable by syllabic index, Pinyin, radical, and stroke count. (UTF-8)

Chinese-English Online Dictionary - http://www.tigernt.com/cedict.shtml
TigerNT’s CEDICT server searchable by character, Pinyin, or English. (GB, Big5, GIF)

Chinese-English-French Dictionary - http://www.chinesedic.com
Search by traditional or simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, or French. Provides AIF pronunciation links.

Chinese-Tools.com - http://www.chinese-tools.com/
Site provides Chinese-English, English-Chinese, and Chinese-French dictionaries; traditional/simplified and Chinese/Unicode converters; and Pinyin dictionary annotation tools. (Big5, GB, UTF-8)

CJKV-English Dictionary - http://www.buddhism-dict.net/dealt/
Charles Muller’s database of CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese) characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political, and intellectual history.(UTF-8)

Database Query to Chinese Characters - http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/query.cgi?flags=eygtnn&basename=%5Cdata%5Cchina%5Cbigchina&recode=yes&hiero=gif
Sergei Starostin's The Tower of Babel Etymological Database Project of Chinese characters, with readings in modern Pinyin, Japanese, Sino-Vietnamese, Middle Chinese, and Old Chinese. It links to Chinese dialectal and Sino-Tibetan information, and gives English translations. (UTF-8)

Dr. Dict: English-Chinese Medical, Biological, and Technical Dictionary - http://www.drdict.com
Specialized online database of scientific terminology with over 420,000 entries. (GB)

English to Chinese Online Dictionary - http://www.online-dictionary.biz/english/chinese/
Online-dictionary.biz’s CEDICT server, English search only, one of seven language dictionaries. (UTF-8)

English-Chinese Glossary of XML and SGML Terms - http://xml.ascc.net/en/utf-8/gloss.html
Translations of standard Markup Language from The Chinese XML Now! Project. (UTF-8)

English/Chinese Dictionary - http://www.pyngo.com/dictionary.php
Pyngo's dictionary is searchable by English or Chinese, with simplified and traditional characters, sound pronunciation files, and allowing user contributions. (UTF-8)

ESAURUS Online English-Chinese Medical Dictionary - http://www.esaurus.org/
Wong Kia Boon’s glossary of Chinese terminology from PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. (GIF)

Frequently Asked Chinese Characters - http://chineseculture.about.com/library/extra/character/bls_characters.htm
About.com’s dictionary of common Chinese characters, English index. (GIF)

Glossaries of Arms Control/Nonproliferation Terms and Names - http://www.nti.org/db/china/glossary.htm
The Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Chinese and English glossaries for nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, missile defense, treaties, and organizations; searchable by English term, acronym, or Pinyin. (GB)

Glossary of Terms for Antique Chinese Porcelain - http://gotheborg.com/glossary/glossaryindex.htm
Jan-Erik Nilsson’s list of specialized vocabulary for East Asian pottery and porcelain.

Hong Kong Department of Justice Glossaries - http://www.legislation.gov.hk/eng/glossary/index.htm
English-Chinese and Chinese-English glossaries of legal and electoral legislative terms, from the Bilingual Laws Information System (BLIS). (Big5)

http://www.cybertearoom.de/chindex/ - http://www.cybertearoom.de/chindex/
Hartmut Bohn’s online index to "A Chinese-English Dictionary" and "Das neue Chinesisch-Deutsche Wörterbuch," indexed by radical, Pinyin, Four Corner and stroke count. (GB, JavaScript)

Lexiconer English Chinese Dictionary - http://www.lexiconer.com
English-Chinese and Chinese-English interfaces using the Linux Chinese/English dictionary database pyDict, written in Python/GTK. (Big5, GB)

Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage - http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/
Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Web edition based upon the1972 dictionary with over 40,000 entries. Indexed by radical, Pinyin, and English, and searchable by full text or head character. (Big5)

Mandarin Chinese Dictionaries - http://www.blabi.com/index.jsp
Blabi’s Unihan-based dictionaries arranged by alphabetical Pinyin, traditional/simplified radicals, semantic fields, and HSK exam level. (UTF-8)

MDBG Chinese-English Dictionary - http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
Provides handwriting recognition and MP3 pronunciations for both Mandarin and Cantonese. Menus support simplified and traditional Chinese. (UTF-8, Big5, GB)

MobileCEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary - http://ktmatu.com/chinese/mobilecedict/
Bilingual English or Pinyin search interface for WAP-enabled cell phones and other devices capable of handling WML pages. (Big5, GB)

nciku Chinese Characters and Pinyin Dictionary - http://www.nciku.com/
Dictionaries searchable by English, Pinyin, Chinese character, radical-stroke, or handwriting recognition. Provides MP3 pronunciations, idioms, and usage examples. (UTF-8)

Net Dictionary - http://www.edict.com.hk/lexiconindex/
SQL server adaptation of the Princeton University WordNet lexical database, with Chinese translations by Han Yang, links to pronunciation files and Web usage examples. (Big5)

Online Chinese English Dictionary - http://dictionary.kaide.net
Indra Kurniawan’s CEDICT and Unihan interface, searchable by English, Pinyin, Japanese, Cantonese, Chinese character, or radical-stroke. (UTF-8)

Online English Chinese Dictionaries - http://www.activeds.com
ActiveDS.com's interface, searchable by English or Chinese, integrates several dictionaries, including The American Heritage Dictionary, and a thesaurus. (UTF-8)

Pinyin Annotator - http://www.longjiang.org/pinyin/
This CEDICT-based application allows users to input a Chinese website or text and automatically annotate with Pinyin above or beside the characters. (UTF-8)

Pristine Lexicon - http://www.pristine.com.tw/lexicon.php?lang=en
This reference has over 150,000 entries, combining public-domain Chinese dictionaries with in-house specialized glossaries. Search by Chinese character, Pinyin romanization, or English. (Big5)

pz English to Chinese Dictionary - http://www.pzlabs.com/chinese/
Primezero’s CEDICT server searchable by English, Pinyin, or character. Links to search engines and other Chinese dictionaries. (Big5, GB)

Unihan Database - http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html
Standardized information about "Unified Han" (CJK: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Ideographs [sic], which are part of Unicode version 4.0. Includes characters, variants, encodings, dictionary citations, radical-stroke, Pinyin, Cantonese, and Tang Chinese pronunciations, Japanese and Korean pronunciations, compounds, etc. (UTF-8)

Xiaoma Cidian - Chinese English dictionary - http://hmarty.free.fr/hanzi/
CEDICT and Unihan server with search by simplified Chinese character, Pinyin, English, radical, stroke, or usage frequency. (UTF-8)

YellowBridge Chinese/English Dictionary - http://www.yellowbridge.com/language/chinese-dictionary.php
CEDICT and Unihan interface allowing word search by English, Chinese character, or Pinyin with tone numbers or marks; and character search by component or radical-stroke. Proprietary software required to hear pronunciation. (UTF-8)

ZhongD Online Chinese Dictionary - http://www.zhongd.org
CEDICT interface searchable by English or Pinyin. (UTF-8)

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