We are in the habit of collecting the best, preferably free, resources for learning and using Chinese on computers. Below is an ever-growing collection of resources that we have profiled:
Chinese script and fonts:
- Windows Chinese IME: type Chinese in Windows
- Ubuntu Linux Chinese IME: type Chinese in Ubuntu
- Google Chinese IME for Windows: type Chinese in Windows
- Type in Pinyin (cross-platform)
- Chinese fonts
- Mojikyo: find obscure characters
- Oracle bone 甲骨文, bronze 金文, and seal script 篆文 characters
- Names for radicals
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Dictionaries:
- NCIKU: bi-directional dictionary
- Kingsoft: Pop-up dictionary for Windows
- DimSum: Chinese Reading Assistant and Dictionary
- PlecoDict: dictionary for Palm and Windows Mobile devices
- Chengyu 成語 idiom dictionary
- Handian 漢典 online dictionary
- Cojack: multi-use language reference tool
- Kangxi 康熙 radical chart
- Unihan Variant Dictionary: find variant characters (Mac only)
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Miscellaneous Chinese language tools:
- Antconc: concordance software
- MLCT: cross-platform concordance software
- ChinesePod: podcast with feature-rich, free, option
- China Reel: BBC podcast in Chinese
- Voice of America bilingual news summaries
- Chinese-Western calendar converter
- Online Conversion of Chinese Measurement
- Chinese Mac: everything you need to know and then some
Electric Sinophile ⓔ華狂 
Maybe you will be interested by this site :
http://www.smarthanzi.net
(www.smartkanji.net = companion site for Japanese)
Best regards,
Jean
By: Jean SOULAT on June 22, 2008
at 12:06 am
And for German-speaking people:
Free Chinese-German Dictionary HanDeDict
http://chdw.de
dictionary (>127000 entries June 23, 2008) and learning materials (printable flash cards etc)
we provide Chinese-German data for a variety of other webpages and applications (e.g. for smarthanzi.net see message above)
for a list of the applications using our data, see
http://www.chinaboard.de/viewtopic.php?t=6471
By: Michael ENGEL on June 22, 2008
at 3:56 pm