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Hanzim - Visual, interactive Chinese character and word dictionary

Hanzim ("Hanzi Master") is an interactive visual dictionary for learning and seeing relationships between Chinese radicals, characters, and compounds. All the characters with a given radical, phonetic component, or pronunciation can be displayed, as well as all words containing a character, with English meanings. Either simplified or traditional characters can be used.

The main character is displayed in a box near the center. Compounds employing it in the initial position are listed to its right; those employing it in the final position are listed to its left. Characters with the same radical are listed in the lower left, those with the same remaining component (character sans radical) in the middle, and those with the same pronunciation are on the right. Clicking on any character on the screen makes it the new main character.

The text box just above the main character contains the pinyin representation of that character. You can click in there, type in a new pinyin string, and hit return to pull up the first character in the program's dictionary with that pronunciation.

Hanzim can also be used as a dictionary (zidian and cidian). You can look up Chinese characters and compounds by radical or pinyin. It's faster and easier to look up characters and compounds with this program than with a conventional dictionary (either by stroke or pronunciation) or a pocket electronic translator. You can also look up compounds by typing English words in the definition area.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://zakros.ucsd.edu/~arobert/hanzim.html
Source tarballhttp://zakros.ucsd.edu/~arobert/Files/Chinese/hanzim-1.3.tgz
Version 1.3 (stable) released on 2002-03-21
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<arobert@cogsci.ucsd.edu>
Developer List<arobert@cogsci.ucsd.edu>
Bug List<arobert@cogsci.ucsd.edu>

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Related information

InterfacesX Window System
Source languagesC, Tcl
Use requirementsTCL/Tk 8.1 or later, Chinese fonts (GB2312 and BIG-5)
Build prerequisitesTCL/Tk 8.1 or later

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-11
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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