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Welcome to the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary, the no. 1 Chinese study aid! This website offers more than just a Chinese to English and English to Chinese dictionary, it offers various tools such as: flashcards, quizzes, text annotation, Chinese text input, written Chinese and more. The MDBG dictionary is used in many schools and universities all over the world, discover why! Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!

Chinese dictionary for Windows 10

MDBG Chinese Reader is the perfect dictionary application for Microsoft Windows. Translate Chinese text and Lookup Mandarin pinyin for Chinese words easily. Just glide your mouse over the Chinese text and a pop-up window shows English translations and Mandarin pronunciations. Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!

Improvements to the MDBG dictionary website

May 5, 2011

Tip: if you prefer the pinyin to be shown next to the 汉字 instead of below the 汉字, click the "Display Settings" link just above the search result and choose "Show pronunciation: right of 汉字".

New layout for search results

The MDBG dictionary website started about 10 years ago. Over the years many features have been added, resulting in more and more buttons and columns. In the new design we put the focus back on the content. Some of the new features are:

New display settings

The display settings allow you to change the way the search results are displayed. To open the display settings, click the "Display Settings" link just above the search result. If you prefer the pinyin to be shown next to the 汉字 instead of below the 汉字, choose "Show pronunciation: right of 汉字". For those who want an even cleaner result page, it is now also possible to hide HSK levels, Cantonese pronunciation, Cangjie and Four corner codes. The display settings also allow you to choose between Yale and Jyutping Cantonese.

Tone colors

The pinyin tone colors are not a new feature, the only change is that they are enabled by default now. See this page for more information about the tone colors. The pinyin tone colors can be disabled through the display settings.

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Flashcard dictionary

Another new feature added to the display settings is to hide the pronunciation until you hover the mouse cursor over an entry. This adds a kind of flashcard effect to the search results, stimulating memory recall.

Sound player support for iPads

Previously Adobe Flash was used to play the pronunciation examples. Devices such as iPads do not support Adobe Flash and were unable to play the pronunciation examples. The new sound player adds iPad support through the usage of HTML5. Android devices will need to have Adobe Flash installed to play the pronunciation examples.

Translation page

Previously, the translation page only offered a word-by-word dictionary look up in addition to the translation. It is now also possible to choose a vocabulary list or mouse-over pop up annotation instead.

Browser support

Internet Explorer 6 is no longer supported. The MDBG dictionary website is best viewed in Firefox 3+, Safari 5+, Chrome 11+ or Internet Explorer 9+. Updating to any of these browsers is free.
The mobile version of the dictionary website now automatically scales to the screen size of your device.


Tip: The character dictionary gives detailed information about separate Chinese characters; the word dictionary contains words consisting of 1 or more Chinese characters.
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