This tool allows you to translate from English, from pinyin, or from Chinese characters.

As an example, type in Cat and then either hit enter or click the Go button. You’ll see the Chinese character and the pinyin. Click on the character in the first column and you’ll get a pop up. If you click on the little cartoon bubble on the pop up then you’ll hear the word being said.

To go the other way, if you choose the pinyin-to-characters choice on the dropdown box and then type in mao then you’ll see all of the characters for mao. Click on the character for the one you want and it will bring up a pop up box again so you can see what that character means (and hear it pronounced).

And finally, if you have the character and want to know what it means, then copy and paste the character in (the dropbox should fix itself when you paste a character in).

The software is pretty good at figuring out what you type in, but if it gives a wonky answer then make sure the dropbox is where it should be and try again.

I’ve put this into the Links section in the right hand column.

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