Online Dictionary: nciku: more than a dictionary

Free Online Dictionary: "nciku: more than a dictionary"

http://www.nciku.com/

An online dictionary that is still in Beta version.


What does nciku mean?
“n” stands for network
“ci” stands for the sound of the Chinese character “词”, which means word in English.
“ku” stands for the sound of the Chinese character “酷”, which means cool in English.
“ciku” stands for the sound of the Chinese word “词库”, which means treasure house of words.


What is nciku?

http://www.nciku.com/blog/en/?page_id=339

To learn all about nciku, visit the FAQ page above. Here are some main points:

• nciku is an English-Chinese/Chinese-English online dictionary. However, it includes more functions than a traditional paper dictionary.
• You can also search or upload expressions used in different situations of your everyday life.
• With the Study Note function you can save the words you want to memorize.

What I like best?

Handwriting Recognition Tool
Even without knowing the exact pronunciation of a word, you can still draw the Chinese character on our Handwriting Recognition Tool.

Just by using your mouse, you will be able to draw the character and find out what it means in Chinese, plus how to say the word in Pinyin.


An example of the search results on 何 [hé] Pinyin:

http://www.nciku.com/EntryDetailView.php?entry_id=15470&dictype=2

pronoun what; which; how; why
何人 : who
何时 : what time; when
何处 : what place; where
何往 : whither
从何而来? : Where from?
何济于事? : Of what avail is it?
有何不可? : Why not?
何故哭泣？
何事动怒？
你来自何方？
你住在何地？
你往何处去？
要做到清心寡欲，谈何容易？
何必钻牛角尖呢？退一步海阔天空。

Special features:

You can click the audio icon to listen to the pronunciation (human voice)!

You can also mouse over the example and read the mouse-over-text with Pinyin line by line!
e.g.,

Yào zuòdào qīngxīn guǎyù，tán hé róngyì？
要做到清心寡欲，谈何容易？

For more details, read the FAQ at
http://www.nciku.com/blog/en/?page_id=339