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monolingual dictionary

murrayjames   February 15th, 2010 5:22p.m.

Can anyone recommend a Chinese monolingual dictionary online? Does anyone here use them regularly?

I'm trying to ween myself off of Chinese-English dictionaries, which I tend to use as a crutch :-)

ximeng   February 15th, 2010 5:51p.m.

One of the three dictionaries used on nciku.com is Chinese-Chinese. The one at the bottom. It often gives more detailed information than the English-Chinese ones.

shinyspoons   February 15th, 2010 11:54p.m.

Here you go, these have no English at all -

http://xh.5156edu.com

http://www.ourdict.cn/

This one does have English, but its only at the bottom -

http://zdic.net/

ximeng   February 20th, 2010 8:13a.m.

http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E4%B8%8D%E7%94%9A%E4%BA%86%E4%BA%86/3188

An example where the monolingual dictionary is more useful - it explains the meaning of 了了 in the entry for 不甚了了.

murrayjames   February 20th, 2010 12:59p.m.

Very helpful, thanks!

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