Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT

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!


handwriting
Auto complete input: off | on

56 results on this page.

Usage Tips
Simplified
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Traditional
HSK
boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival
HSK 7-9
slippers / sandals / flip-flops / CL: 雙|双, 隻|只
HSK 6
(coll.) stepfather
Pfizer, American pharmaceutical company
a selfless, helpful person, like the model citizen Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋 (often used to refer to sb in a joking or teasing way)
useful / helpful / Taiwan pr. [zhong4 yong4]
helpful friend / wise companion
helpful
to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing) / cookout
HSK 7-9
ready-made phrase / unhelpful comment
prefrontal cortex (PFC)
unhelpful / useless
deep-fried fish cake popular in Taiwan (loanword from Japanese "tempura")
Thai ginger / lesser galangale (Kaempferia galanga)
helpful / beneficial / to help / conducive to
to become a cadre (e.g. a promotion from shopfloor)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *噗* | 噗* | *噗
(onom.) pop / plop / pfff / putt-putt of a motor
General Tso's chicken, a deep-fried chicken dish
Kaempferia galanga, one of four plants known as galangal
deep-fried noodle cake
deep-fried doughcake / oilcake (animal fodder)
(baseball) fastball / (fig.) (coll.) direct; frank; upfront; blunt
Robert Mugabe (1924-2019), Zimbabwean ZANU-PF politician, president of Zimbabwe 1987-2017
breakthrough / going beyond / leap-forward / unusual new development
flip-flops
(coll.) youtiao (deep-fried breadstick)
sheep-fat white jade, a type of jade
(Tw) deep-fried food
karaoke / (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
(dialect) pastry / (dialect) youtiao; deep-fried cruller
campfire
flip-flops (abbr. for 人字拖鞋)
deep-fried fish
Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP, aka CAPF)
flip-flops
youtiao (deep-fried breadstick) / CL: 根 / slick and sly person
stepfather
HSK 7-9
rolling door; roll-up shutter (of a shopfront, garage, warehouse etc)
to sauté / bubbles that appear in the oil when deep-frying
deep-fried cake
stepfamily / (old) stepmother / to marry
(neologism c. 2012) (slang) to become a stepfather when one's partner turns out to be pregnant with a child she conceived with another lover
crisp-fried
fried dough twist (crisp snack food made by deep-frying plaited dough) / worn out or worn smooth (of clothes)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蓬* | 蓬* | *蓬
fleabane (family Asteraceae) / disheveled / classifier for luxuriant plants, smoke, ashes, campfires: clump, puff
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *餲* | 餲* | *餲
deep-fried noodle cake, also known as 饊子|馓子
pfennig (monetary unit) (loanword)
flip-flops / flip-flop sandals / thongs / see also 人字拖
(technology) deepfake
Platypleura kaempferi, a kind of cicada
stepfather
good teacher and helpful friend (idiom); mentor
flip-flop (electronics)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *氽* | 氽* | *氽
to float / to deep-fry
crispy, deep-fried (variant of 卡拉)
crispy, deep-fried (variant of 卡拉)


Tip: The character dictionary has hand writing instructions for many Chinese characters, a brush icon is shown in front of the character when these instructions are available, try clicking it.
© 2026 MDBG Made in Holland Made in Europe
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies