wanted: online dictionary (pinyin)

[heinzel]

Hi,

my name is Dirk. I live already for more than one year in Kunming/China.(Chinese girlfriend!)

But my Chinese is still verry poor.

Who can tell me an online

chinese(pinyin and chinese character)-english

english-chinese(pinyin and chinese character)

dictionary.

(test: ban gong shi)

thanks

Dirk

[skylee]

Try this http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict_welcome.php

The word dictionary can be quite useful.

[johnmck]

Not exactly what you are looking for, but must haves:

http://dltool.sourceforge.net/

http://qq.bur.st/

and the infamous:

www.zhongwen.com

www.mandarintools.com

John.

[zippol]

i have added those websites to my favorites.

then,i can go to those websites easily!

thanks

[horas]

http://www.chinalanguage.com/CCDICT/index.html

http://www.tigernt.com/

http://www.rikai.com/perl/HomePage.pl?Language=Zh

http://www.mandarinteacher.com/dictionary/default.asp

Or you can d/l a free (talking) dictionary to work offline:

http://www.euroasiasoftware.com/english/chinese/dictionary/

[Glenn]

I think http://www.yellowbridge.com/language/worddict.html is pretty good. I'll have to check out some of the others as well. I'm still "shopping" for an online dictionary.

[Ken]

Online dictionaries for English/Pinyin/characters:

http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/welcome.html (other learning tools as well)

http://www.pzlabs.com/

[galitonwu]

www.baidu.com

[laohu489]

I second the recomendation for MDBG free online Chinese-English dictionary. It is constantly evolving for the better with about a hundred new additions every week in just about every catagory imaginable.