Look up words in a Chinese dictionary with pinyin

The thousand most common words each have a page in the Chinese dictionary with pinyin (词典) on Chinese Boost. You can see all the readings of a word together, with meanings grouped under each reading.

For example, the dictionary entry for 长 gives “long” under cháng and “to grow” under zhǎng. 的 has three readings, each with its own meanings.

The dictionary page for 长, showing the readings cháng and zhǎng and links labelled “cháng long” and “zhǎng grow”.

The 长 entry shows cháng meaning “long” and zhǎng meaning “grow”.

Entries also link to related material where it is available. 长 has a separate page of example sentences (例句) and grammar articles.

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