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From the Lookup tab, type (or paste) any combination of English, Pinyin (with/without numbers), Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese.
- English: shanghai airport
- Pinyin and English: qian2 money
- Chinese and Pinyin: 遊 you1
Find matching words, names and phrases from your Chinese Reader translation dictionaries. Save time looking up words much, much faster than traditional printed dictionaries. Unlike web-based dictionary sites, Chinese Reader dictionaries are installed on your computer. They're always available--even when the Internet connection is slow or unavailable.
Tips
For performance reasons, Chinese Reader displays the first 900+ entries for any request. When your lookup request returns too many entries, add more terms or wildcard operators to refine and reduce the number of entries.
1. Refine results by adding English
- Chinese: 金融
Find 27 entries for jin rong (banking) - Chinese and English: 金融 crisis
Find only 3 entries for banking or financial crisis
2. Refine results with Pinyin tone numbers
- Pinyin: cong ming
Find 22 entries
- Pinyin with tone numbers: cong1 ming5
Find only 10 entries related to smart or clever
3. Study idioms
- English: idiom happy
Find 13 entries
4. Wildcards
- English: shanghai airport
Find only entries containing both "shanghai" AND "airport"
- English: bun -hair
Find entries containing "bun" but NOT "hair"
- English: "hair*"
Find entries starting with "hair" (hairpin, hairy, hairdressing)
- English: "bun OR pork"
Find entries containing "bun" OR "pork"
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