San Bei Ji

Online Chinese Dictionary

MDBG free online chinese english dictionary

Further to my last post on the Taiwanese online dictionary and learning Taiwanese - this whole thing started basically because I had been recently using a pretty cool online Chinese dictionary based on CEDICT for my mandarin studies, and I wondered if there were a similar sorts of things for Taiwanese. It looks like something had started on SourceForge a while ago, but hasn’t been updated lately. If anyone is interested in starting a project adding Taiwanese pronunciation and characters to CEDICT, I’d be interested in contributing.

Anyway, I digress…

The MDBG free online chinese english dictionary has been quite useful to me. I suppose that the thing I like best about it is that it uses a nice Mac OS X user interface theme. What can I say? I’m a Mac user. In addition to that, it has a decent user interface and allows text searches on Pinyin and has shortcut links to break down word searches into searches onto the individual characters. The convenience of it has helped me in mid-stream during several conversations with my mother-in-law recently, and the lookup speed is so much faster than the manual searches using the dozen or so books I have that offer as many different ways to look up words.