MDBG Chinese-English dictionary - Chinese Dictionary for Windows

Reading and understanding emails, chat conversations, websites and office documents written in Chinese can be a challenge for many people. Now with MDBG Chinese Reader, just glide your mouse over the Chinese text and a pop-up window shows English translations and Mandarin pronunciations.

Learn Chinese while using it!

Using language course books allows you to study Chinese in a structured manner. These books however never seem to teach you exactly those words which you run into while browsing through websites, chatting with friends online or reading an email. The MDBG Chinese Reader can assist you in Learning Chinese while using it, learning the words which you want to learn!

Translations appear automatically when gliding your mouse over Chinese texts in any application. The offline dictionary allows you to lookup words anytime you want. Don't waste any more time going back and forth between your dictionary and your document, email or chat. Learn Chinese instantly, while using it!

Features

Editions

MDBG Chinese Reader is available in two editions: professional and standard edition. The professional edition allows you to customize the dictionary with your own words, phrases, definitions, examples and usage notes. Define new words that are specific to your industry and company. Synchronize definitions with text books and other learning references and share these definitions with other Pro users. The professional edition also adds the ability to import/share definitions with ZDT flashcards and other learning tools.

Download it now

Try MDBG Chinese Reader free for 15 days with complete features and no restrictions.

Student / academic discount

MDBG offers discount for students of public, private and home schools. Please contact us through the contact form using your school email account for more information on this discount.

For schools that do not offer a school email account, send us a copy of your student ID or equivalent legal authorization (contact us through the contact form first and we'll get back to you by email).

Professors, teachers, tutors and staff of accredited schools and universities are also eligible to receive discounts on MDBG software. Please check out the educators page for more information.

Bulk or Site-licenses

Purchase 5 or more licenses at the same time and receive extra discount. Please contact us through the contact form for more information.

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Do you like this product? Tell your friends, tell your teacher, tell your classmates. Do you own a blog? Write a blog post about it. The more people buy the product, the more we can improve it! And by buying the MDBG Chinese Reader you also support the MDBG Chinese-English dictionary website, thanks!

Testimonials

"I have tried your software and find it absolutely amazing. It is so helpful when you are reading articles, newspapers, assignments, and even menus in Chinese."
-- Columbia University (Student)

"I recently downloaded your Chinese Reader software and within five minutes I decided that this product is a 'must-have'! No other software does what this software can do."
-- Hawaii University (Student)

"I just tried MDBG and am absolutely blown away. It’s absolutely amazing how you don’t even need to select what you want to get info on, just point."
-- Curt Carpenter (Microsoft)

"The MDBG Chinese reader is the best tool I have for learning Chinese. I have scoured the internet and purchased many types of software, books, and other media. Looking up words before MDBG Reader was laborious and daunting. Now I have a contextual dictionary that has allowed me to begin exploring websites and texts in chinese that were inaccessible to me. This is a brilliant tool. Thank you."
-- Anonymous

"Chinese Reader is one of the best language software I've ever seen. Really love it. All the features are really wonderful."
-- MIT (student)

"I love your product so much. It is by far the most useful program for helping to learn Mandarin."
-- Phillip

"I must share with you that MDBG's Chinese dictionary has been an almost-daily help to me for some time now, so I'm grateful in every way to be able to buy the product."
-- Peter

"Thank you this is great software, someday I will remember all Chinese characters, but for now I will use this diligently."
-- Paul