It turns out my Chinese teacher is an accomplished calligrapher.
http://zhaoyizhou.co.uk/
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Chinese-English character dictionary
http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/character-dictionary.php
This is a pretty cool online tool. Bummer, I can't use it in my Chinese classes, because, by some strange twist of academic management, 30Russell Square is deprived of WiFi access to EduRoam.
What I really like is that YellowBridge allows you to draw characters in a Java applet window, much quicker than searching by the radical.
In search results you get
Korean hanja readings are conspicuously missing.
Japanese readings, however, are not very reliable. For example, it claims that the Japanese reading for 团 is shuu. In fact, it is dan, related to the modern Mandarin tuan.
This is a pretty cool online tool. Bummer, I can't use it in my Chinese classes, because, by some strange twist of academic management, 30Russell Square is deprived of WiFi access to EduRoam.
What I really like is that YellowBridge allows you to draw characters in a Java applet window, much quicker than searching by the radical.
In search results you get
- both the Traditional and Simplfied versions,
- Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese pronunciation
- Mandarin audio file
- compound words
- Java animation for the stroke order
- usage examples (Chinese sentences with English translations)
Korean hanja readings are conspicuously missing.
Japanese readings, however, are not very reliable. For example, it claims that the Japanese reading for 团 is shuu. In fact, it is dan, related to the modern Mandarin tuan.
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