ChineseSkill

Chinese language has and does deserve its notoriety for heartbreaking difficulty. If that wasn’t bad enough, most of the resources available for learning Mandarin Chinese are expensive, and time-consuming.

Free Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

Lion (LEO dictionary)

Lion allows you to send a query to the German-English, -French, -Spanish and -Italian LEO dictionaries (Chinese is currently not supported) with a click of your mouse from almost all MS Windows applications.

Free Personal Windows Android iPhone Blackberry Windows Phone HP webOS S60

wenlin

Wenlin software makes learning Chinese easier and more interesting, for begining students, life-long speakers, and scholars alike. It combines a comprehensive Chinese dictionary, a Unicode text editor, and flashcards.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows

DimSum

DimSum: a program designed to help you learn and use Chinese. Many people have requested versions of the tools on this website that can be run locally. DimSum is the answer to these requests.

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

Syng

Syng is a free, open source, cross platform, Chinese to English dictionary app and study toolset.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Pleco

Pleco is the ultimate Chinese learning companion - an integrated dictionary / document reader / flashcard system.

Freemium Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

Hanping Chinese Dictionary

Hanping is Android's most user-friendly offline dictionary for learning Chinese. Includes handwriting recognition, native speaker audio, stroke animations, AnkiDroid...

Freemium

Nciku

English Chinese dictionary, help learning Chinese language, Chinese character, and Chinese pinyin. Dictionary with Chinese handwriting recognition, pinyin translation...

Free Web

YiXue Chinese Dictionary

YiXue Chinese Dictionary is a comprehensive Chinese dictionary and learning assistant for Windows Phone. Built for students and passionate language learners, it...

Freemium Windows Phone

Advanced English Dictionary

Advanced English Dictionary is better than other dictionaries, not just because it contains far more words than a conventional paper dictionary, but because it uses a...

Commercial iPhone Blackberry Java Mobile S60

Youdao Dictionary

Youdao is a search engine released by Chinese internet leviathan, NetEase in 2007. It is the featured search engine of its parent company's web portal, 163.com, and...

Free Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Web

Pingrid

Pingrid, a clever and effective game to train your Chinese vocabulary.

Free Windows

ZDT

The ZDT (Zhongwen Development Tool) is an easy to use, open-source Mandarin Chinese flashcard application that can help you learn Chinese. It is written in Java using...

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

Chinese Tutor Dictionary

A fast & simple dictionary for looking up the pinyin of Chinese characters and words.

Free Web

Perfect Dictionary

Search multiple dictionaries from huge database in over 50 languages. FEATURES: - Automatic word suggestions from enable dictionaries while typing. - Ability to...

Freemium Windows Phone

YellowBridge

Free online dictionary with suggestions of words that start / end with searched character. Requires that you turn ad blockers off.

Freemium Web