- Copy the text into the edit box and confirm.
- After parsing the text - which may take some time - all results will be available in a popup window.
Just to try, you may use the links below to some Chinese news sites.
Translations are based on CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary and HanDeDict Chinese-German dictionary.|
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When convenient, users are invited to submit full paragraphs rather that looking at each single word or sentence.
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Note for DDB users
The utilisation of DDB and Soothill & Hodous has been improved by end April in order to provide a link to full DDB and show DDB and Soothill in one page - and provide when possible various Chinese transcriptions of the same Sanskrit words. It seems that this was not clear enough. The current version tries to make it more direct. Click on the DDB tags for links to full DDB. Any comments are welcome. |
Most Chinese characters consist of a radical (Kangxi key) and a phonetic element. The table here shows the 858 phonetic elements identified by Wieger. Click on any graphic component in the table to find the related characters (traditional variants only).
To find a character from its Kangxi key, go to the 214 Kangxi keys (traditional and simplified).
CHINESE CHARACTERS - Their origin, etymology, history, classification and signification by Dr. L. Wieger, S.J. was first published in 1899 (French) and 1915 (English). It has eversince been republished. It does not include the 20th century discoveries and therefore is technically wrong in many respects. However, based on the 2nd century Shuowen Jiezi, it reflects the Chinese tradition and culture. It is what many Chinese know about their writing.
While reading the book is nice, finding the lesson related to a given character is more tedious: one has to go through several indexes, starting with the traditional variant (there were no simplified characters when the book was written). The site does all this search for you with just a mouse click (please refer to the book for the content of the lessons).
