Have an iPhone or iTouch? Our free Chinese Writer app comes with an interactive twenty-five character tutorial that teaches the basic rules of how to write Chinese characters. There's also an expert practice mode for advanced speakers that includes support for several hundred more characters. If you're interested in taking the HSK, you should also check out our free iPhone HSK test app.
Our Firefox Chinese-English dictionary plugin puts a read/write popup dictionary at your fingertips. Get instant definitions and Google translations. Highlight unrecognized words to add them to our collaborative dictionary and push forward the state-of-the-art in Chinese-English machine translation. [install]
Do you program? Adso is a Chinese-English translation, hanzi-to-pinyin conversion and text analysis and segmentation engine. Powered by our collaborative Chinese-English dictionary, Adso is coded in object oriented C++ and serves the open source community. We are working to give the world a free Chinese translation engine. [downloads]
Our Tone and Color plugin adds a new option to your right-click menu. Select it to colorize hanzi on any page according to the standard tonal color palate developed by Nathan Dummitt in his "brilliant, innovative, and imaginative" book Chinese Through Tone & Color. Designed particularly for visual learners. [install] or [download]