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Right-click and suddenly you're searching Baidu for real life examples, news stories, images, videos and music. With MDBG Chinese Reader as your personal guide, do it all without the need to type Chinese. That's the power of augmented learning.

  Lookup

Find related Chinese words from the dictionary

  Breakdown

See the components of a compound word or phrase

  WebTranslate

Auto-translate using Google Translate and Microsoft Bing

  Search

Find examples of selected words used in sentences, images and videos in popular Chinese sites (Baidu, Sina, Line Dictionary, Google) and more.

  Pronounce

Hear the selected word(s) read aloud in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese)

  Copy+

Copy and format selected word(s), definitions and phonetics (Pinyin) to create a study sheet

  Copy from...

Selectively copy just the Chinese (simplified, traditional), phonetics (Pinyin), etc. to be pasted into your documents, emails and IM. Hint: this is much faster than manually writing (stroking) Chinese characters with an input method editor or writing pad

  Add to Favorites

Tags the word for future reference; same as clicking on the Favorites star

  Word*

Create new definitions and usage notes for your personal dictionary

  Export*

Saves the selected words into a file. This can be shared with another application (flashcard, etc.)

*Some features are supported only in Standard, Professional and Ultimate Editions.