Chinese computing, Chinese dictionaries and Chinese
language and culture websites.
For General interest web sites and technologies and their Chinese
counterparts see:
Chinese
Encoding Standards Information
Surrogate pairs to UTF32 conversion table.
Internationalization and localization
Character View Tests - Can you see all the characters you could be
seeing?
Character view test Big5 - chineseetymology
Character view test GB2312-80 - chineseetymology
Character view test Alphabets of the World - chineseetymology
Character view test CJK_Unified_Ideographs_(U+4E00_U+9FFF)
- chineseetymology Everyday Chinese
Character view test CJK_Extension_A_(U+4E00_U+9FFF)
- chineseetymology Not so often Chinese
Character view test CJK_Extension_B_(U+20000_U+2A6DF)
- chineseetymology Rare Chinese
Character view test CJK_Ideographs_Extension_C_(U+2A700_U+2B73F)
- chineseetymology Very Rare Chinese
Character view test CJK_Ideographs_Extension_D_(U+2B740_U+2B81F)
- chineseetymology Extremely rare Chinese
Character view test Hangul_Syllables_UTF8_(U+AC00_U+D7AF)
- chineseetymology
Characters you should be seeing -
Unicode4.0CodeChartsGraphical.pdf - chineseetymology
Characters you should be seeing -
Unicode5.2CodeChartsGraphical-MulticolHan.pdf - chineseetymology
Unicode
6.0 Character Code Charts (for all languages) - unicode.org
Unicode
CJK Unified Ideographs (Basic Chinese, Japanese, Korean) - unicode.org
Letter names for world alphabets, no Chinese Characters
gb18030/GBK to Unicode spread sheet
Various online word and character dictionaries
English Use Wikipedia or
Google or Baidu to search for detailed information on
English or Chinese words
Chinese Use Wikipedia or
Google or Baidu to search for detailed information on
English or Chinese words
English Online Etymology Dictionary
English - Oxford English Dictionary (need to subscribe)
English Merriam Webster (no etymology)
Chinese to English - MDGB Color coded
tone, Conversion
Character
Animation and Input (Nciku)
Character Animation and Input (Yellowbridge)
Character Animation and Input (Chinese-tools)
Chinese Etymology - Zdic (In
Chinese)
Cantonese Dictionary (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Cantonese Supplementary Characters (Hong Kong Government)
Taiwanese1 (Taiwanese - in Chinese)
Chinese dialect phonetics development
Animation how to draw Chinese characters
Sino-Tibetan etymological dictionary and thesaurus
Chinse-English dictionary - archchinese
Character animation - archchinese
Automatic Translation and encoding conversion
Convert
from Simplified to Traditional - translate.google
Convert from Traditional to Simplified - translate.google
Translate from Chinese characters to English and other
languages - translate.google
Translate from English or other languages to Traditional or
Simplified Chinese - translate.google
Voice - From Chinese characters to Mandarin speech - translate.google
Convert from Chinese characters to pinyin with tone parks translate.google
Alternate translations - translate.google
Automatic web page translation - Google Chrome automatic web
page translation bar
Chinese Text Annotation Tool - chinesetools
Converts Chinese text to show
"per word" pronunciation and English translation.
Chinese Calligraphy Editor - chinesetools
Makes Chinese look like it used
to.
Convert Unicode Chinese to Unicode &#(decimal); - chineesetools
Gives decimal representation for
use in HTML, VB and C# programs
Convert Unicode &#(decimal); to Unicode Chinese - chinesetools
Lets you see characters
represented by decimal representation
Convert Mandarin pinyin(number) to pinyin(tone) and
&#(decimal) for the pinyin - chineesetools
Shows you the tone marks for
regular text and decimal notation for in line programming
Convert
Big5-GB2312 (Study character equivalents)
Convert Files
GB-2312, GBK, GB18030, HZ, Big5, CNS11643, UTF-8, UTF-8 (Trad)
- mandarintools.
Click Chinese Encoding Converter.
This is a Java Applet, You must load the Java plug-in and allow the applet to
run.
Click
Romanization Converter. This is a Java Applet, You must load the Java plugin and allow the applet to run.
Encoding Code Page Identifiers, .NET name, etc.
Encoding Surrogates and Supplementary Characters
Convert between ISO8859-1, Macintosh garbled text to GB, Big5
or UTF8, with various HTML options
Convert Chinese Unicode to hexadecimal or decimal
Chinese character encoding and conversion programming information
Unicode
conversions by programming language
shows language code, LCID setting, decimal, hexadecimal
and Codepage
shows code page identifier .NET name and other
information on code pages and character sets - i18nguy
All about spelling in Chinese - pinyin.info
Chinese
Romanization, other spellings and spelling conversion
All
the usual Romanization systems and non Romanization spellings
All you will ever need to know about Chinese pinyin diacritical marks
in Unicode
list in hanyu pinyin order of zhuyin fuhao equivalents
list in zhuyin fuhao order of hanyu pinyin
equivalents
convert hanyu pinyin to zhuyin fuhao
Globalization Step by Step - msdn
Chinese etymology
Enable
XP for Maximum Chinese - chineseetymology
Chinese Encoding Conversion http://www.chineseetymology.org/ComputerCharacterResources.htm
Input Chinese characters or other language
characters
Character Input - Google Pinyin IME 谷歌拼音输入法
Instructions for installing the Japanese IME (Which will
handle Extension B Chinese)
Ciangjie IME (This is supposed to include Unicode
extension B, Input is based on the structure of the character)
Character lookup Windows (Worst case you can use the character
map to lookup, cut and paste the character,
but only for characters in the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
Character lookup Unicode Worst case for characters not in the
BMP, you can look up the Unicode indexes in the Unicode PDF files and input the
addresses as hexidecimal
Online wobi 86 五笔 (five stroke input) http://kdd.cc/fl/ime/wb86/
Online wobi 98 五笔 (five stroke input) http://kdd.cc/fl/ime/wb98/
Pointers to lots of Chinese Language and Computing
sites http://kdd.cc/
Must know FREE Software downloads
Application
Server - Apache (web server)
Programming Language - Java (Free
programming language)
Development Environment - Eclips (Java
development environment)
Operating System - Ubuntu (server
and client) (Lynux OS)
MySQL Server (Database management system client and server)
Media
player VideoLAN VLC (plays most
YouTube files)
Sound editor Audacity source forge
Mozilla Thunderbird (manage all your email in one place and keep all your
email on YOUR computer)
Moz Backup (backs up your email)
Mozilla Firefox browser (There are some things you can do with Firefox that
you can not do with Chrom)
FireFTP (An FTP addon for Firefox
that will transfer UTF8 File names)
Microsoft Silver Light
RAR extractor.
Information on computer programming
HTML,
JavaScript, CSS - w3schools
Visual Studio and .NET Framework Glossary
Tutorial SQL Server Management Studio
ASP.NET Introduction - w3schools
.NET Framework 4.0 class library - msdn
ASP.NET Overview and API Reference -msdn
Visual Basic language reference - msdn
Find my
upstream and downstream connection speed
Confuscious institute
online - Chinese teaching and other stuff
Chinese
Wenlin - Chinese learning software
Chinese texts
Most important Chinese holidays
Tomb
Sweeping Day清明節 Qīngmíngji
Dragon
boat festival端午節 Duānwǔ Jié
Mid Autumn Festival - Moon Festival 中秋節Zhōngqiūjié
Most important Classical Chinese books
I interpreted for a bunch of fifth and seventh graders
a while back,
If I did not know the story lines and main characters
for the first three stories,
I would have been totally lost.
紅樓夢 Hóng Lóu
Mèng (Dream of Red Mansions, Story of the Stone) -
wiki
紅樓夢 Hóng Lóu Mèng (Dream of Red Mansions,
Story of the Stone) - cliffnotes
三國演義 sān guó
yǎn yì (Romance of the
Three Kingdoms) - wiki
西遊記 Xī Yóu Jì
(Journey to the West) - wiki
聊齋誌異 Liáozhāi zhìyì (Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio) - wiki
唐詩三百首 Tángshī sānbái shǒu (The Three
Hundred Tang Poems) - wiki
四書五經 Sìshū Wŭjīng
(The Four Books and Five Classics) - wiki
莊子 Zhuāng Zǐ (Chuang Tzŭ) - wiki
道德經 Dao De Jing (The Tao Te Ching)
- wiki
封神演義 fēngshén yǎnyì (The Investiture of the Gods or The Creation of
the Gods) - wiki
Chinese Games
Chinese
Game (1) Mahjong - wiki
Chinese
Game (2) Chinese Chess - wiki
Girl or Boy?
Chinese name gender gusser - chinesetools
Study Chinese
The Confucius Institute
(孔子学院）(Government sponsored worldwide language and culture program)
The Confucius Institute
parent organization
Chinese Forums for learning Chinese
Study English
http://mandarinportal.com/index.php
快典网 ｋｄｄ是英文 “knowledge
discovery in database 中文为 快点点 (Chinese computing and Culture)
Input methods, dictionaries, history,
literature, etc.
The home page
Calligraphy Dictionary 书法字典
- kdd
Single
character display in various calligraphy styles including super cursive.
Inline
coding representations and conversions of Chinese characters - kdd
Conversion to and from various inline
coding representations
Chinese means character display representation
of Unicode like -中文
HTML means decimal representation
of Unicode like - 中文
UTF-8 means hexadecimal
representation of Unicode like - 中文
JS Encryption 加码 means
hexadecimal representation like - <script>document.write(unescape('%u4E2D%u6587%0A'));</script>
HTML to JavaScript,
HTML to UBB (Ultimate Bulletin
Board)
HTML to ASP (Active Server Pages)
HTML to PHP (PHP Hypertext
Processor)
HTML to JSP (Java Server Pages)
HTML to Perl
HTML to SWS (Simple Web Site)
HTML to VB.NET (Visual Basic
.NET)
HTML to Javascript
HTML transfer
ASCII to Unicode
JavaScript to HTML
UBB to HTML
Unicode to ASCII
JS Encryption 加码 -
like <script>document.write(unescape('%u4E2D%u6587%0A'));</script>
JS Decryption 解码 -
to character display
Chinese to UTF-8
UTF-8 to Chinese
Copyright (c) 2003,
2008, 2011 Richard Sears