Chinese links

Chinese script | Free Chinese fonts | Writing Chinese | Chinese Radio | Chinese Newspapers | Chinese Dictionaries | Chinese Courses | Chinese Names | Chinese Calligraphy | Chinese Computing | Chinese Literature | Chinese Philosophy | Language courses for various languages in Chinese | Miscellaneous

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Chinese script

About written Chinese
http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/visible/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Chinese

Chinese manuscripts - Chinese palaeography and epigraphy
http://shahon.org

Information about the Chinese script
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_bone_script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_bronze_inscriptions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_script
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters

Online Chinese Tools
http://www.pin1yin1.com
http://pinyinjoe.com
https://www.chineseconverter.com/en

The Hanzi Formula - a method for connecting the forms of Chinese hanzi and Japanese kanji with their meanings
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1SmLtbrnFfAwbH3mbkNL1Q/videos

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Free Chinese fonts

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseTraditional.html
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseSimplified.html
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts-east-asian.html
https://cooltext.com/Fonts-Unicode-Chinese

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中文翻譯

Writing Chinese

Animated Chinese characters
http://www.chinesedictionary.org
http://www.strokeorder.info/
https://www.archchinese.com/animated_character_maker.html

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Online Chinese radio

Radio in Mandarin
http://www.cnr.cn
http://china.cnr.cn/
https://tingfm.com/
http://smgradio.cn/
https://www.radiotaiwan.tw

BCC (中國廣播電台) - in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Hakka
http://www.bcc.com.tw

RTHK (香港電台) - in Cantonese
http://www.rthk.org.hk

BBC World Service - in Mandarin and Cantonese
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad

Radio Free Asia - in Mandarin and Cantonese
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese


Online Chinese newspapers

China

http://www.peopledaily.com.cn
https://www.gmw.cn/
http://www.shanghaistar.com.cn/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/

中文翻譯

Taiwan

https://tw.appledaily.com/home/
https://www.ltn.com.tw/
https://udn.com/news/index
https://www.taiwandaily.net/
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang

Hong Kong

http://www.mingpaonews.com
https://www.nextdigital.com.hk/
https://std.stheadline.com/
http://www.takungpao.com/

Singapore

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/
https://www.wanbao.com.sg/
https://www.zaobao.com.sg/
https://www.shinmin.sg/

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Online Chinese dictionaries

Chinese Character dictionaries

https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary
http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html
http://zhongwen.com
http://www.uname.cn/dict/
https://hanzicraft.com/

Mandarin dictionaries

http://ce.linedict.com
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
http://www.chinese-dictionary.org
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/
https://www.moedict.tw
http://www.chine-informations.com/mandarin/dictionnaire/
https://handedict.zydeo.net/
https://app.ninchanese.com/search

MandarinSpot - Chinese-English Dictionary and Annotation tool
http://mandarinspot.com

Chinese language resources - information, dictionaries, etc
http://www.chinalanguage.com

Online Cantonese dictionary
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/
http://cn.voicedic.com
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-can/
https://www.cantoneseclass101.com/cantonese-dictionary/
https://cantonese.org/
https://words.hk/

Online Shanghainese/Wu dictionaries
http://wu-chinese.com/minidict/search.php

Online Taiwanese dictionaries
http://twblg.dict.edu.tw/holodict_new/
http://210.240.194.97/TG/jitian/tgjt.asp
http://210.240.194.97/q/q.asp
http://www.edutech.org.tw/dict/Harnji-gwsuu0.htm
http://taigi.fhl.net/dict/
http://www.taiwanesedictionary.org
https://www.moedict.tw

Online Hakka dictionaries

https://www.moedict.tw


Online Chinese lessons and learning resources

Online Cantonese lessons

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/
http://cantonese.ca
http://popupcantonese.com
http://polymath.org/cantonese.php
http://www.cantoneseclass101.com/

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Information about Cantonese | Phrases | Numbers | Family words | Time expressions | Tower of Babel | Cantonese courses on: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk [affilate links]

Online Mandarin lessons

Learn Chinese Online with Rocket Languages http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/
http://www.chinese-lessons.com/mandarin/
http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/
http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese
http://www.chinese-course.com
http://www.zhongwenred.com
https://dandanchinese.com/
http://www.chineseclass101.com/

Rocket Chinese | Learn Chinese from Movies | Learn Chinese Online with AI Chinese | eChineseLearning - 1-to-1 Chinese Lessons

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Find Chinese Tutors, Teachers and Lesson Help

Games to learn Chinese (Mandarin) vocabulary
http://www.gameslearnchinese.com

Chinese (Mandarin) grammar
http://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Main_Page
http://www.chinese-grammar.com/
https://ninchanese.com/chinese-grammar-lessons/

Mandarin phrases (some with audio)
http://www.linguanaut.com/english_chinese.htm
https://iwillteachyoualanguage.com/learn/chinese/chinese-tips/common-chinese-phrases
https://ltl-beijing.com/basic-mandarin/
https://wikitravel.org/en/Chinese_phrasebook

Thinking Chinese - an insiders' look at modern China
http://thinkingchinese.com

Popup Chinese - lessons, tools and other resources for learners
http://popupchinese.com

Online resources for learning Mandarin
http://www.chinesetools.eu
https://www.nihaocafe.com/

How to Learn Chinese – The FREE Ebook
http://www.livethelanguage.cn/how-to-learn-chinese

Blogs about learning Mandarin Chinese and living in China
http://www.hackingchinese.com/
http://www.sinosplice.com/
http://ilearnmandarin.blogspot.com/
http://www.digmandarin.com/

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Information about Mandarin | Phrases | Numbers | Colours | Family words | Terms of endearment | Time | Weather | Tongue twisters | Tower of Babel | Articles | Links | Learning materials

Online Shanghainese lessons

http://www.fyan8.com/shanghai/
https://www.memrise.com/course/256754/shanghainese-with-audio/
https://mangolanguages.com/available-languages/learn-shanghainese/
https://chinesepod.com/library/courses/shanghainese/13

Information about Shanghainese | Phrases | Numbers | Books about Shanghainese on: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk [affilate links]

Online Taiwanese lessons

http://www.learntaiwanese.org/
http://learntaiwanese.org/Beginner's Guide to Taiwanese.html
http://www.taiwanese-oki.idv.tw/
https://www.youtube.com/user/LearnTaiwanese

Learn Taiwanese (Hokkien) with Glossika

Information about Taiwanese | Phrases | Numbers | Family words | Time expressions | Tower of Babel | Books about Taiwanese on: Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk [affilate links]

Other learning resources

Chinese Writing Master - software that helps you learn how to write Chinese characters
http://www.cchar.com

Chinese Language Resources - web-based tools plus a text and audio library
http://www.clavisinica.com/resources.html

Chinese Tools - online tools to learn chinese or build chinese websites. Includes annotation tools, dictionaries, and converters for pinyin, unicode, traditional and simplified chinese: http://www.chinese-tools.com

Learning Chocolate (巧克力学堂) - free vocabulary games for students to learn Chinese vocabulary online: http://www.learningchocolate.com/?st_lang=zh-hans

Learn Hakka with Glossika

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Chinese names

Your name in Chinese
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
http://www.transname.com
http://www.chinese-tools.com/names
http://www.chine-informations.com/fun/chinois/
http://www.cnx-translation.com/your-name-in-chinese.php

Chinese Seals

Chinese calligraphy, translation and design - get your name in beautiful Chinese calligraphy: http://www.transname.com


中文翻譯

Chinese calligraphy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calligraphy
https://www.invaluable.com/blog/chinese-calligraphy/
https://chinese.gratis/tools/chinesecalligraphy/

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Chinese computing

The Complete Guide to Chinese Computing
http://www.chinesecomputing.com/

Chinese input methods and programs
http://www.inputking.com

Taiwanese and Hakka input methods
http://taigi.fhl.net/TaigiIME/

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Online Chinese literature

中国现代文学馆 (Online museum of contemporary Chinese literature)
http://www.wxg.org.cn


Chinese philosophy

Chinese Text Project - texts of ancient Chinese philosophy online
http://chinese.dsturgeon.net

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Language courses for various languages in Chinese

阿拉伯语课 (Arabic Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/arabic.php

丹麦语文课 (Danish Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/danish.php

荷兰语课 (Dutch Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/dutch.php

英语课 (English Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/english.php

芬兰语课 (Finnish Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/finnish.php

法语课 (French Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/french.php

德语课 (German Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/german.php

希腊语课 (Greek Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/greek.php

意大利语课 (Italian Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/italian.php

挪威语课 (Norwegian Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/norwegian.php

俄语课 (Russian Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/russian.php

西班牙语课 (Spanish Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/spanish.php

泰语课 (Thai Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/thai.php

土耳其语课 (Turkish Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/turkish.php

越南语课 (Vietnamese Lessons)
http://duanyu.org/vietnamese.php

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Miscellaneous

Free Chinese New Year E-cards
http://www.123greetings.com/events/chinese_new_year/

Information about other scripts used in China (in Chinese)
http://yeats1103.pixnet.net/blog/post/22314508
http://big5.huaxia.com/zhwh/wmty/2009/02/1303845.html

Recommended books books

Books about Chinese characters and calligraphy
Language learning materials for: Classical Chinese, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Hokkien, Taiwanese and Cantonese

Sinitic (Chinese) languages

Dungan, Cantonese, Fuzhounese, Gan, Hakka, Jian'ou, Mandarin, Puxian, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, Taiwanese Hakka, Teochew, Weitou, Wenzhounese, Xiang


Chinese pages

Written Chinese: Oracle Bone Script, Simplified characters, Bopomofo, Types of characters, Structure of written Chinese, Evolution of characters, How the Chinese script works, Xiao'erjing, General Chinese

Spoken Chinese: Mandarin, Dungan, Wu, Shanghainese, Wenzhounese, Yue, Cantonese, Weitou, Min, Jian'ou, Taiwanese, Teochew, Fuzhounese, Puxian, Hakka, Xiang, Gan, How many people speak Chinese?

Other Chinese pages: Chinese numbers (數碼) | Chinese classifiers (量詞) | Electronic dictionaries | Chinese links | Books: Chinese characters and calligraphy | Cantonese | Mandarin, Shanghainese, Hokkien and Taiwanese

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Links pages

Names | Translation | Dictionaries | Language courses | Phrases | Language and linguistics | Language learning advice | Language learning resources | Language exchange | Endangered and minority languages | Writing systems | Sign languages | Fonts | News | Radio | Podcasts | Language jobs | Calligraphy | Bilingual and multilingual resources | Constructed languages | Suggest a link

Links for individual languages

Ancient Egyptian | Arabic | Breton | Celtic languages | Chinese | Cornish | Dutch | English | French | German | Greek | Hebrew | Hindi | Irish | Italian | Japanese | Korean | Latin | Manx | Portuguese | Russian | Scottish Gaelic | Spanish | Welsh | Tolkien's languages

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