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to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language.
From the novice Chinese language student to the advanced programmer, I
hope there is something here for everyone. Rather than being a
Chinese language course, it provides tools to people who are already
studying and using Chinese. Please check out the <A
HREf="dimsum.html">DimSum Chinese Reading Assistant</A>, <A
HREF="flashcards.html">Character Flashcards</A>, the <A
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<LI> <A HREF="flashcard.html" target="ctools">Chinese Flashcards</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1><A HREF="flashcards.html" target="ctools">New, Improved Flashcards</A><BR>
Study Chinese characters with Java flashcards</FONT>
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<LI> <A HREF="addpyfile.html" target="ctools">Add Pinyin to Files</A><BR>
<small>Add pinyin to any Chinese text file on your computer</small>
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<LI><A HREF="pyconverter.html" target="ctools">Romanization Converter</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Pinyin, Yale, Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Wade Giles, BoPoMoFo</FONT>
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<LI><A HREF="annotate.html" target="ctools">Chinese Text Annotator</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Break a text into words and add links to dictionary entries.</FONT>
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<LI> <A HREF="addpyweb.html" target="ctools">Add Pinyin to Web Pages</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Add pinyin to any Chinese web page!</FONT>
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<LI> <A HREF="shufa.html" target="ctools">Learn to Draw Chinese Characters</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Links to character writing resources on the Web</FONT>
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<TH VALIGN=MIDDLE COLSPAN=3><A NAME="use"><FONT SIZE="+2" COLOR=GOLD>Tools for Using Chinese</FONT></TH>
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<LI><A HREF="chardict.html" target="ctools">Character Dictionary</A><BR>
<A HREF="chardict_u8.html" target="ctools"><FONT SIZE=-1>Faster Unicode Version</FONT></A><BR>
<A HREF="zidian.html" target="ctools"><FONT SIZE=-1>Beta Java Version</FONT></A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Look up Chinese characters by English, pinyin, radical/stroke, and
Cantonese.</FONT>
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<A HREF="hangif.html" target="ctools">Create Chinese GIFs On-line</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1><A HREF="cimage.html" target="ctools">New Java Version</A><BR>
Type in Big5, GB, or UTF-8 text and get back an equivalent GIF graphics
file</FONT>
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<LI><A HREF="zhcode.html" target="ctools">Chinese Encoding Converter</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>A Java applet that converts files between GB, GBK, Big5, UTF-8, UCS2, and CNS.</FONT>
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<A HREF="worddict.html" target="ctools">Chinese/English Dictionary</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Look up words in Chinese by pinyin or English</FONT>
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<A HREF="email.html" TARGET="ctools">Repair Corrupted Chinese E-mails</A><BR>
<small> Many e-mail programs corrupt Chinese text. Use this program to restore the orignal.<small>
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<FONT SIZE=-1>Find people names, place names, dates, times, money amounts and more in a
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<LI> <A HREF="codeguess.html" target="ctools">Guess Chinese Encoding</A><BR>
<small><a href="sinodetect.html">New Java Version</a></small><br>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Determine the most likely Chinese encoding (GB, HZ, Big5, UTF-8, or other) for
a file.</FONT>
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<LI><A HREF="fileampconv.html" target="ctools">Convert HTML Escapes to Bytes</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Convert a Chinese file saved with
HTML ampersand escape sequences back into the original encoding.</FONT>
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<A HREF="zhcodeweb.html" TARGET="ctools">Convert Web Documents between GB, Big5, Unicode, etc.</A><BR>
<small> Type in the web address of a page in any Chinese encoding (traditional or simplified characters) and
have it come up in any other encoding.<small>
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<LI><A HREF="calendar.html">Western-Chinese Calendar Converter</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Convert between Solar and Lunar Calendars</FONT>
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<LI><A HREF="chinesename.html">Get a Chinese Name</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Get a Chinese name inspired by your English name</FONT>
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<LI><A HREF="family.html">Chinese Family Relationships</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Found out how to say "father's older brother's wife" in Chinese</FONT>
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<A HREF="measures.html">Chinese Measurements</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Compare Chinese measurements with Metric and Imperial.</FONT>
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<A HREF="numbers.html">Chinese Numbers</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Description of Chinese number system and a converter from English numbers
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<A HREF="abacus.html">On-line Abacus</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Learn how to use the abacus.</FONT>
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<A HREF="currency.html">East Asian Currency Converter</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Convert between US Dollar amounts and 6 East Asian currencies</FONT><P>
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<LI> <A HREF="dimsum.html">DimSum: Chinese Tools for All</A><BR>
<Font SIZE=-1>The project to produce a stand-alone version of this web site's tools.</FONT>
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<LI><A HREF="download/codelib.zip">Chinese Encoding Detector</A><BR>
<A HREF="download/SinoDetect.java">Java Version</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Perl5 code to determine the most likely Chinese encoding for
a given text string.</FONT>
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<LI><A HREF="download/amp2char.zip">HTML Escapes to Byte Converter</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Convert the ampersand escape sequences that many HTML editors save GB and
Big5 as back into GB or Big5 (or any other eight-bit encoding).</FONT>
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<LI><A HREF="wordinput.html">Word97 Chinese Input Macro</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>A free macro to input Chinese into Word97 documents without a separate
Chinese sytem.</FONT>
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<LI><A HREF="segmenter.html">Chinese Segmenter</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>Breaks a Chinese text file into words.</FONT>
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<LI><A HREF="download/ccount.zip">Chinese Digit Counter</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>A perl script that I wrote to create the counter below.</FONT>
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<A HREF="pyzymacro.html">Zhuyin Macro</A><BR>
<FONT SIZE=-1>A Word97 Macro that converts pinyin next to a character into
Zhuyin (i.e. BoPoMoFo) or moves the pinyin underneath the character.
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<LI> <A HREF="javaconverter.html">Java GB/Big5/Unicode Converter</A><BR>
<Font SIZE=-1>Stand-alone program to convert text documents between GB, HZ, Big5,
Unicode, EUC-TW, etc. Needs Java.</FONT>
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<LI> <A HREF="download/unigif.tgz">Chinese GIF Collection</A><BR>
<Font SIZE=-1>Archive of 15,000 character GIFs indexed by their Unicode value.</FONT>
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<LI> <A HREF="cedict.html">CEDICT Chinese/English Dictionary</A><BR>
<Font SIZE=-1>Freely available Chinese to English dictionary.</FONT>
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<STRONG>Have suggestions</STRONG> for a tool you'd like to see here? Found
a bug that needs fixing? You can reach me through my
<A HREF="contact.html">contact page</A>. In your
message, please include the type of operating system you are running
(Windows 95, Macintosh, Unix, etc.), the browser you are using
(Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, etc.), and the browser
version (2, 3, 4 or 5).
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For <STRONG>general Chinese resources</STRONG>, including information about
reading and writing Chinese on computers, please visit my
<A HREF="chinese.html">Chinese Links</A> page or the <A HREF="faq.html">
frequently asked questions</A> page.
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<H3>Other Chinese/Java and Chinese Tools Links</H3>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat" target="_top">Ochlocrat's
Learn Mandarin</A> page: Several useful applets and applications for
making Chinese GIF files, painting Chinese in applications, etc. Also
a section using Voice of America Chinese broadcasts to study Mandarin.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.abstractfactory.org/hanziquiz/">Hanzi Quiz</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://sonicnovel.com/kanji.html">Cool Flash Animation for learning characters</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://chinesecomp.no-ip.com">Chinese Composition Tool</A>: A web that allows you to compose Chinese without installing any input methods.
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<A NAME="credits">
<H3>Credits and Sources</H3>
This page has drawn upon quite a few different public-domain Chinese
resources and would not have been possible without them.
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<LI><A HREF="ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/Unihan.zip" target="_top">UNIHAN.TXT</A>: A marvelous collection of Han character information
available at the <A HREF="http://www.unicode.org" target="_top">
Unicode Consortium</A>. <A HREF="http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html">Search UniHan</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat/reaj/gif.html" target="_top">Create Chinese GIF's </A> program from Ocrat.com. Used by the flashcard and character dictionary.
<LI>Data files from <A HREF="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/ccic/software/" target="_top">
IFCSS</A>'s software data directory.
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<LI><A HREF="cedict.html" TARGET="_top">CEDICT</A>: A public-domain Chinese-English dictionary.
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