These are materials I have compiled for students and scholars to learn to read Buddhist texts in Chinese. This is very much a work in progress; suggestions for improvement are welcome.
Alex Amies has prepared a web-based version for volumes 1 and 2. Unlike the version below, which is a simple PDF for download, this version allows you to hover over characters to see their definitions from the glossary. (The latest version of Volume 1 is the PDF version; I need to update the following):
http://www.primerbuddhism.org/
Are you studying Chinese? Thanks to the Hanyu Chinese School podcasts, you can practice your Chinese by listening to dialogues and reviewing grammatical and cultural aspects of the Mandarin language.
Chinese Boost is a Chinese learning website with free resources on how to learn Chinese, and materials you can use to do that. All content here is free and open for everyone to use, and always will be. We want to help all Chinese learners improve their Chinese with useful resources.
Calligrapher generates printer and tablet-friendly PDF worksheets to aid writing Chinese characters much like the worksheets that I used in elementary school. However, instead of having only traceable characters, Calligrapher gives customizable lexical context.
With Calligrapher, your worksheets are labelled with pronunciations, radicals, stroke orders, as well as individual character translations. There are also different fonts to choose from, providing advanced Chinese learners with a template to improve cursive Chinese calligraphy.
The development is still under way, but I wanted to give all Chinese language learners a sneak peak of this nifty tool.
More features are currently in the making. To accomodate the spaced repetition learning technique, flashcards with animated stroke orders and voice pronunciations as well as quizzes based on past user text input will soon be available.
Chinese Characters Worksheet Creator is a web-tool which you can create your own chinese character worksheet to practiced writing. It supports the creation of Chinese characters stroke order worksheet.
Chinese culture is known as one of the oldest and most traditional cultures in the world. It was born more than 5000 years ago and till now it is one of the most beautiful of all cultures. The sophisticated traditions of calligraphy, language, and art is respected by many Western and Eastern cultures. Moreover, Chinese is more used in a business world. Therefore, more and more people from Europe and America admire Chinese traditions and want to learn Mandarin. Chinesetools.eu is an answer to everyone who is interested in Chinese culture, history, and traditions. It is also a perfect tool for learning mandarin and great entertainment!
If you want to learn Chinese and get information regarding this beautiful culture or simply just use some fun tools, Chinesetools.eu is the website for you. We assure you with all the information you will find on our website are reliable and true. Prepared by native Chinese speakers for all enthusiasts of the Chinese language and culture.
The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.
Useful Chinese learning tools, can be used to convert text into Pinyin/Zhuyin, Trad./Simp. version, or generate a vocabulary list.
Tools provided in this extension includes:
- Chinese to Pinyin/Zhuyin conversion
- Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion
- Vocabulary list generator
- Dictionary lookup
- Translate to English
- Chinese text to speech
Welcome to the Chinese Zero to Hero on YouTube! We are dedicated to helping those who want to learn and improve their Chinese language skills at all levels. Through our video tutorials, you will have the opportunity to learn the most practical spoken and written Chinese skills, deepen your understanding of Chinese culture, and use Chinese fluently in daily life. Let's start from Zero together, brave the heights of Chinese learning, and become a true Chinese hero!
Chinese Grammar Platform is a transnational initiative to enhance the quality and accessibility of Chinese language education across Europe. Co-funded by the European Union Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Program (ID 2023-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000157248), ChinGram is developing a digital, multilingual platform that supports both learners and educators of Chinese through:
- Comprehensive grammatical descriptions of about 100 grammatical points.
- Interactive exercises.
- Practical teaching resources.
- Possibility to choose among 5 EU languages (German, Danish, Czech, Italian and Polish).
- Insights grounded in linguistic diversity and applied pedagogy.
By integrating research and classroom experience, the platform responds to the growing need for accessible digital learning materials for Chinese as a foreign language.
Yitizi Zidian (异体字字典, Variants of Chinese Characters Dictionary), an introduction:
Chinese characters have a long and profound history. Beyond the internal evolution of their structures, the processes of copying, woodblock engraving, printing, and interpretive adaptation throughout history have inevitably led to complex and diverse textual variations. To facilitate the teaching of Chinese characters, written communication, and information development, the Chinese Ministry of Education has consolidated these complexities by establishing "standard characters" to set a unified benchmark for usage. Following this, and in order to preserve textual history, the Ministry undertook the task of organizing character forms from historical dictionaries and literature dating from ancient times to the present. By linking other variant forms that share the same pronunciation and meaning to their respective standard characters, they compiled a comprehensive compendium of Chinese glyphs: the Variants of Chinese Characters Dictionary.
Learn a new language … in just 5 minutes a day. Effortless, visual character learning. Word by word, Drops helps you learn new vocabulary through fun, fast-paced games with simple mnemonic images. From the world’s most popular languages to widely spoken dialects, Drops has you covered. Drench yourself in a new language. Learning a new language is like swimming a marathon. Build the endurance you need to reach the shores of fluency. Drop by drop.
E·Chinese Plus is an open-access platform for learning the Chinese language, where you will find activities from CEFR levels A1-B2 to practice various skills. For ease of use, you can filter activities by level, linguistic competence, and also by topic, whenever relevant.
This platform was created by Chinese language teachers from the Department of Translation and Interpreting and East Asian Studies at the UAB. Many of them are also part of the team behind the sister database e·ChineseTools, which compiles digital resources for Chinese learning and teaching. The team consists of Marta Andía, Helena Casas-Tost, Lourdes Gay, Guo Xiaoyan, Nie Lingzhi, Antonio Paoliello, Sara Rovira-Esteva, and Mireia Vargas-Urpí.
This website is dedicated to unveiling the mysteries of learning a language in general and about learning Chinese in particular. If you don’t take responsibility and think for yourself, it will take ages to reach a decent level, but if you become aware of how to learn and study efficiently, fluency is within reach.
The "Hanyu Guoxue Wang" Chinese Dictionary contains over 94,000 Chinese characters of all types, making it one of the most professional, comprehensive, and feature-rich free online character lookup websites with the largest collection of characters in China. It covers all the characters from the Xinhua Dictionary and includes writing animations as well as stroke order and stroke count standards for over 9,000 characters. You can look up characters by entering the full character, Pinyin, Wubi code, Cangjie code, Zhengma code, stroke order, Four-Corner Method, Unicode, and more, to find information regarding the character's Pinyin, pronunciation, meaning, explanations, citations, input methods, writing animations, stroke count and order, various encoding systems, entries from the Kangxi Dictionary and Shuowen Jiezi, translations, and much more.
HanziCraft is a web application that takes you into the depths of Chinese characters. It aims to provide information on Chinese characters in a easy clean format with awesome useful information.
Subscribe if you want to receive a weekly email with direct links to new resources. This message will only be sent if there are new entries in our database. If you wish to unsubscribe, you can do so at any time by using the designated link in the emails we send you.
Cookies disclaimer
I agree
Our site saves small pieces of text information (cookies) on your device in order to deliver better content and for statistical purposes. You can disable the usage of cookies by changing the settings of your browser. By browsing our website without changing the browser settings you grant us permission to store that information on your device.