hbuchtel Posted December 12, 2004 at 05:28 AM Report Posted December 12, 2004 at 05:28 AM Split from here Since many of the postings mentioned how slow looking up characters up in the dictionaries is, I wanted to mention this option- very fast! but requires at least $200 . . . 1. Palm OS PDA (anything from old Palm V and Sony Clie to the new 'smart phones') 2. Chinese dictionary program, I use the Oxford Dict which costs about $50 but is very usable and accurate. (www.pleco.com) With these two you can simply write the character on the screen of your pda and *boom!* you have the definition! Much faster then looking it up by radical, or even pin-yin. Most PDAs can fit in a shirt pocket, I have found this to be even more convenient then carrying around a concise paper dictionary. If you have a palmphone you can write sms in chinese and look up characters directly from the messages! Another note, if you buy a pda in China it should come with a Chinese OS and the ability to handwrite chinese to any program. These two features cost about $70 if bought separately . . .
marcopolo79 Posted December 12, 2004 at 06:08 AM Report Posted December 12, 2004 at 06:08 AM Character recognition software can be a great tool, but only if you are very familiar with stroke order. Edit: Will close this one, as we now have this. Roddy
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