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

100 results on this page.

Usage Tips
Traditional
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Simplified
HSK
to work / (of a machine) to operate / job / work / task / CL: 個|个, , 項|项
HSK 1
to call / to be called
HSK 2
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个) / to act; to move
HSK 1
to write / to compose / writing / written works
HSK 3
to make; to manufacture
HSK 3
to create; to produce; to write / a creative work; a creation
HSK 3
to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL:
HSK 4
first author (of an academic paper) (abbr. for 第一作者)
to work / to operate / to manipulate
HSK 4
to operate / operations / workings / activities (usu. of an organization) / thread (computing)
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *作* | 作* | *作
to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works
HSK 6
to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
HSK 3
to hype / to promote (in the media)
HSK 6
to treat as / to regard as
HSK 6
cooperation / coordination
HSK 7-9
to be called; to be known as
HSK 7-9
noncooperation
routine
to use for the purpose of / to serve as
multithreading
to join forces / to give full cooperation
to look upon as / to regard as
HSK 6
to change into / to turn into / to become
representative work (of an author or artist)
to bestir oneself / to pull oneself together / to cheer up / to uplift / to stimulate
HSK 7-9
also written as
can be used for
seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
normal operation / proper functioning
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
HSK 7-9
masterpiece / fine piece of writing
to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc) / a masterpiece
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)
to flare up; to break out
HSK 7-9
covert activities (election rigging etc) / under-the-table manipulations / black operations
painting; picture
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *作* | 作* | *作
(bound form) worker / (bound form) workshop / (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
my unworthy manuscript (humble expr.) / my humble writing
intensive farming
heart attack; to have a heart attack
social work
reflex action
pretension / affectation / putting on artificial airs
to make preparations
to pretend / to feign / to act a part
to telecommute; to work remotely
deep plowing and careful cultivation
work / manual labor
to serve as / to be a substitute for
to have sth made to order
to do one's work / to work on sb / to try to persuade sb
bad habit (e.g. nose-picking) / petty maneuver / dirty trick / gamesmanship
to change into / to turn into / to become
to liken to / to compare to
to regard as / to treat as
masterpiece / famous work
first publication; maiden work
panic attack
fake move or pass (sports) / feint
contemptible / disgusting
coroner (old)
masonry workshop
farming
masterpiece
improvisation
to attempt / test run
original works / original text / original author
to be abbreviated to / (followed by a verb) slightly
employment as sex worker / prostitution
affected / artificial
part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon
posthumous work
the final work in the career of a composer, film director or architect etc
rice cultivation
your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly
to regard as / to view / to consider sth as / to treat as
cooperative education (Tw)
signature move
a work in a classic style / a pastiche
unaffected (i.e. behaving naturally)
(writing, drawing, calligraphy etc) to apply oneself to producing practice pieces / a practice piece; an exercise
to consider erroneously / incorrectly attributed to sb
affected / artificial / to make / to manufacture
to feign / to pretend
(slang) masterpiece
to set aside for; to keep as
to write in the style of some author / to write as if from the mouth of sb / a pastiche
epileptic seizure
to cut a long story short / a brief treatment of a complicated subject / fig. to treat an important question as a minor matter
sequel
farming / crops
(cinema) slow motion
to pretend / to feign
rotation of crops (to preserve fertility of soil)
(Tw) full-time work
all the trades / people of all trades and professions
to compose / to write words to a tune
interplanting

More results available:



Tip: The character dictionary gives detailed information about separate Chinese characters; the word dictionary contains words consisting of 1 or more Chinese characters.
© 2025 MDBG Made in Holland Made in Europe
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies