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Chinese Language Tools

This is a wiki for Chinese related tools to help the translators on their various projects. Feel free to add your own materials on the first page. :slight_smile:

A Primer in Chinese Buddhist Writings

John Kieschnick’s seminal work for students of Chinese Buddhist Writings.

A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms

An excellent dictionary for Buddhist terms in Chinese, by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous.

Charles Muller’s Chinese Dictionaries

One for Buddhist, one for general East Asian religions & philosophies, two great resources for any serious scholar.

Buddhist Chinese - Sanskrit Dictionary

Hirakawa’s fantastic dictionary for all the chinese terms that were used for Sanskrit translations.

CC-CEDICT Chinese Dictionary

The word dictionary project started by Paul Denisowski with the aim to provide a complete downloadable Chinese to English dictionary with pronunciation in pinyin for the Chinese characters. An amazing tool for offline scripts.

Mandarin Spot Annotations

A great little wrapping around CC-CEDICT that provides easy to read annotations for a body of text, also giving a printable glossary. Has a simple API for your websites to use.

Yomitan Pop-up Dictionary Plug-in for Chrome

A browser plug-in for dictionaries for various languages, notably for Chinese & Japanese.

Other Resources

Dharma Pearls Substack

A collection of essays on Agamas by @cdpatton.

Chengshilun Hanzi Learning Tool

A simple app for learning Satyasiddhishastra (Chengshilun) by Harivarman, made by @Pj_Harivarmanian.

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Very useful for my ongoing EBT Agamas translation (to Sanskrit) project, thanks.

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Back to the mother language, eh? :grin:

I’m glad they’re useful! Especially Hirakawa’s work should be of some help.

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Chuck Muller’s Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJKV-English Dictionaries should be go-to resources.

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Oh right. I always forget about that since it requires membership. I guess it’s a must for any serious translator though. :sweat_smile:

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He used to allow twenty searches a day by logging in as “guest” and no password. But yeah, the idea was for it to be a collection of notes by scholars, so he required submissions to get a login for unfettered access.

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I’ve been using https://dictionary.buddhistdoor.net

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Added this little Annotation tool:

Mandarin Spot Annotations

"Here you can add Mandarin pronunciation to any Chinese text as either Hanyu Pinyin, often called simply Pinyin, Zhuyin Fuhao also known as Bopomofo or other, less known Chinese phonetic systems. Here you can use both Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters as long as you don’t mix them inside one word.

Right now there are a Chinese-English/English-Chinese Dictionary and an Annotation tool for clips of Chinese text and whole Web sites. There is also a Bookmarklet that can be used to annotate any web page. If you are a webmaster interested in adding pop-up annotations to your own website, free public API is also available."

Might be useful for Dharma Pearls or @Pj_Harivarmanian’s works.

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