I want to slowly change all of my definitions to Chinese. My plan right now is to change about 30 word definitions a week, starting with basic ones.

Are there any online Chinese-Chinese dictionaries that you recommend? Up until now, I've only used Chinese-English dictionaries, so I don't know of any resources.

If you're looking at Traditional Chinese, this one from Taiwan's Ministry of Education is the one I rely on all the time:

http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/

When I first switched over, I started with this dictionary (also ChineseChinese and also by Taiwan's MoE):

http://dict.concised.moe.edu.tw/main/cover/main.htm

Some of the entries have pictures in there. But, as it is a simpler dictionary, entries are missing that the first one I listed may have.

I've always found Baidu's online dictionary to be a most dependable resource

dict.baidu.com

If you do this, you should definitely switch your account to Chinese-Chinese and submit those definitions as corrections. Then your submitted definitions will be usable by all others on the site. However, we currently don't have anyone to manage our Chinese-Chinese dictionary, so any corrections you make will not be managed until later.

If someone is interested and proficient enough in Chinese, let me know and I can set you up with a free account for as long as you handle Chinese-Chinese dictionary submissions and corrections.

Scott:

I'd love to help with managing the Chinese-Chinese submissions, mainly because I'd really love to have Chinese only definitions available, but would love to do them for everyone and not just myself. Let me know what is involved and what kind of proof of proficiency you'd like or anything else.

I'd also like to help but first we have to figure out how to get skritter working on my main machine without having to log out and using the icky windows boot.

Nick discovered that I hadn't been properly set up to compile the workaround he built for linux acting poorly. Try this page again:

http://beta.skritter.cn/study/all

And see if it works better for you on Linux. I tested it on my copy of fedora 15 which doesn't work on the normal site either, but that url works for it.