Converting Chinese characters to Pinyin (Mandarin or Cantonese).

Input (copy-and-paste) any Chinese text and obtain the transliterated pronunciation of each Chinese character. This site is maintained by Ocrat.

Wenlin Institute, Inc. Home Page

An integrated solution, Wenlin combines a high-speed expandable Chinese dictionary, a full-featured text editor, and unique "flashcard" system all in one intuitive environment. Wenlin is a comprehensive tool for begining students, life-long speakers, andscholars alike.

Chinese Tools Page

Maintained by Erik Peterson, this site contains many extremely useful tools for learning and using chinese characters. It has character conversion to Pinyin, a romanization converter (to change Pinyin to Wade Giles, etc.), and on-line converter between Big5 and GB, and more.

Information about reading Chinese in other platforms

This site is maintained by Carlos McEvilly.

TianWei Xie's pages

For learning Chinese online, hosted at California State University at Long Beach.

Links to many pages for information on Chinese software that's free and on the market.

 

Ken Lunde's page on encoding schemes

Includes related topics on CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean; in this case, mostly Japanese).

Image Maps for the Unicode 2.0 Chinese Character Set

Maintained by John Jenkins

Fontworks' stroke-based fonts information

An article about new fonts being developed for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean desktop publishing. The site mostly talks about Japanese.

Reading Chinese on the Mac

Some background information about using Chinese on the web and within programs on a Mac.

NJStar

The latest version 2.0 of NJ Communicator can be used on both Windows NT and Windows 9X, with a very nice Chinese input module.

Some supplementary information about NJStar

 

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