http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/character-dictionary.php
This is a pretty cool online tool. Bummer, I can’t use it in my Chinese classes, because, by some strange twist of academic management, 30Russell Square is deprived of WiFi access to EduRoam.
What I really like is that YellowBridge allows you to draw characters in a Java applet window, much quicker than searching by the radical.
In search results you get
- both the Traditional and Simplfied versions,
- Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese pronunciation
- Mandarin audio file
- compound words
- Java animation for the stroke order
- usage examples (Chinese sentences with English translations)
Korean hanja readings are conspicuously missing.
Japanese readings, however, are not very reliable. For example, it claims that the Japanese reading for 团 is shuu. In fact, it is dan, related to the modern Mandarin tuan.
