SmartHanzi is a free yet professional grade tool for students and anyone wishing to read real Chinese texts (web, PDF) even with a limited level in Chinese. Parse and lookup SmartHanzi provides immediate access to unknown words. Although it is not a learning tool, it shows links to related words (also in, contained) and character details: stroke order, character series (Kangxi, etymology). With this perspective beyond immediate usage, one gets naturally familiar with words and characters. Besides recognizing the correspondence between simplified and traditional variants, SmartHanzi also recognizes multiple traditional variants. For instance, searching 真 (or finding 真 in a text) will show both 真 and 眞, according to what is present in selected dictionaries. Or it will recognize equally well 為 / 爲 or 眾 / 衆. Tests Some versions include tests based on HSK levels as a way to check one’s progress. Progress is shown on 12 months. Tests are short and errors reviewed first. One can choose longer tests, or to review unsure words or check supposedly known words. Etymology Etymology is not only for scholars or experts. Along centuries, Chinese writing has developed a number of reference points, reasonable or simply traditional, well known by most Chinese. Se non è vero, è ben trovato. Trying to “learn” Chinese writing without leveraging this invaluable assistance would be an unreasonable challenge. Etymological indications and character series emphasize these reference points. Dictionaries As a free application, SmartHanzi offers a smaller choice than major commercial applications, but remains globally best in class for the intended usage. A first demo (PoC = Proof of Concept) of “Dictionnaire Couvreur” (Chinese-French, classical Chinese) is for those more interested in Chinese culture, since modern language still largely employ elements of ancient Chinese. User Interface SmartHanzi is available for PC, Mac and mobile: - Windows and Mac versions are most effective and comfortable for professional use. - Smartphones offer fast and flexible reading. - Tablet landscape mode (horizontal) can be used either in full screen (split window like on laptop) or multiple applications: the application on one half with original reader on the other half. Download - Windows: download from www.smarthanzi.net is recommended. A Microsoft Store version is also available but at the moment it is not at the same level. - Mac: same version on www.smarthanzi.net and Mac App store. Download from www.smarthanzi.net is recommended for frequent users. - Android: Play Store (or Amazon). - iPhone, iPad: App Store DDB Access DDB Access is similar to SmartHanzi for collaborative projects DDB (Digital Dictionary of Buddhism) and CJKV-E (Classical Chinese). Full dictionary entries for DDB and CJKV-E are much more detailed in DDB Access than short definitions in SmartHanzi. Anyone can access 20 full entries per day.

STEDT is a long-term linguistics research project at the University of California at Berkeley. It is directed by Professor James A. MATISOFF of Berkeley's Linguistics Department. Our goal is the publication of an etymological dictionary of Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST), the ancestor language of the large Sino-Tibetan language family. This family includes Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, and over 200 other languages spoken in South and Southeast Asia. The project was founded in 1987 and has enjoyed the support of the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first major dissemination of STEDT research came in the form of A Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction, an introduction to the reconstructed phonology and lexicon of Proto-Tibeto-Burman and the philosophical underpinnings on which the STEDT project rests. This volume (HPTB) included over 1500 reconstructed Proto-Tibeto-Burman roots. In the next phase of the project, additional STEDT etymologies and data will be published systematically, by semantic field, in electronic form.

The Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resource (ITLR) is a collaborative lexical project built around Sanskrit Headwords which are ordered under the rubrics (1) Word/Term/Phrase, (2) Place Name, (3) Personal name, or (4) Title of Scripture/Treatise. It aims to provide occurrences of these lexical items in Indic sources, attested Tibetan translations of them, modern renderings, and references to them in discussions in academic works. The ITLR involves a number of scholars from around the world in various capacities, including editors, advisors, contributors, and visiting fellows, and it cooperates with several institutions.

Das Wörterbuch der tibetischen Schriftsprache ist das erste wissenschaftliche Referenzwerk, das die historische Entwicklung des tibetischen Wortschatzes anhand von Textbelegen sichtbar macht. Es präsentiert Zitate aus Originalquellen in Umschrift mit deutscher Übersetzung. Das Textkorpus umfasst repräsentative Texte von den Anfängen der tibetischen Literatur bis zum 19. Jahrhundert und schließt Werke verschiedenster Gattungen ein: alttibetische Inschriften, historische Dokumente, einheimische Geschichtswerke und Biographien, die schöne Literatur, religiöse Texte und wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Neben buddhistischen Quellen, die aus indischen Sprachen ins Tibetische übersetzt sind, werden auch solche der Bon-Religion berücksichtigt. Zur Zeit sind 51 Lieferungen des Wörterbuchs erschienen, die zusammen sechs Bände ergeben. Damit ist das tibetische Alphabet bis einschließlich des Buchstabens p abgeschlossen. Die gedruckte Ausgabe kann beim Verlag C.H.Beck, München, bestellt werden (kundenservice@beck.de). Das Online-Portal des Wörterbuchs der tibetischen Schriftsprache befindet sich in einer Testphase. Aus diesem Grund können vorerst nur Lemmata mit dem Basisbuchstaben d angezeigt werden.

10.000 english tibetan entries in the dictionary. Examples of use included. Wylie transliteration too.

Ve slovníku tibetština - čeština najdete fráze s překlady, příklady, výslovností a obrázky. Tibetan-Czech Dictionary with examples

It is the aim of this database to shed light on the plurality of these translations. The database is regularly updated as the data expands. Due to the local biodiversity of certain regions, Tibetan materia medica have a variety of biological identifications. In the case of Tibetan anatomical terms, the situation is equally ambiguous: it is not always clear which anatomical structure is actually meant by a Tibetan anatomical term and, conversely, biomedical anatomical structures are named differently in different contemporary publications in Tibetan language. The database is populated by Tibetan materia medica and their available colloquial English and German correlates (the so-called "trivial names") as well as the more precise Latin biomedical or scientific names according to the sources considered. The database was initiated and continued as part of my previous projects, which identified the medical denotations of the “unfolded tree” metaphors depicted on the medical college at Labrang Monastery (P22965-G21) and on Tibetan anatomical terms (P26129-G21), both funded by the Austrian Science Fund.

The Visual Dictionary of Tibetan Verb Valency is a proof of concept corpus-driven lexical resource to explore the argument structure of Tibetan verbs diachronically, through data visualisation. This resource is best viewed on wider screens and is not designed for mobile devices. The Visual Dictionary of Tibetan Verb Valency is part of the UKRI-funded project Lexicography in Motion: A History of the Tibetan Verb (AH/P004644/1). The dictionary data are available on Zenodo.

Manchu gisuni buleku bithe. Online dicitonary of Manchu

Online dictionaries of Sanskrit and Tamil

Yet another full index of CJKV Ideographs

古今文字集成,集古今文字释義、字形更革、音韻演變之大全

Multi-function Chinese Character Database with archaic script forms, componential trees, etymologies, full-text search, idioms collection, English-Chinese Lookup, & word-formations.

Founded in 1994 by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Nitartha International uses modern technologies, pedagogies, and museum practices to preserve the timeless wisdom of Asia. Our specialty is in the teachings of the Nyingma and Kagyu schools of Tibet. Our vision and sincere mission since 1994 has been to preserve these texts, teachings, and cultural works, and make them available to as wide an audience as possible so that countless people may benefit from their wisdom. Nitartha International is the umbrella organization for a variety of activities under the Nitartha name. - Nitartha software development provides Tibetan language software. Our store is available here as well. - Nitartha Dictionary Tools provides an online Tibetan-English translation dictionary. - Nitartha Institute provides advanced Buddhist studies curriculum in English and other languages. -Nitartha Translation Network makes available Tibetan texts in translation into English and other languages. -Nitartha international publications provides both Tibetan-language publications for use in modern-day shedras, and advanced translations for the modern minds in other countries. - Nitartha Digital Library is an extensive collection of Tibetan-language texts and provides digital publications and search of the Nitartha collection.

38 North is a program of the Stimson Center dedicated to providing the best possible analysis of events in and around North Korea.

Our team of expert journalists at NK News produces leading analysis on all major developments in North Korea.

A collection of online resources for the study of Chinese Buddhism. This list is intended to supplement the guides and collections of bookmarks currently available online. The linked resources are not maintained by me; I've only collected those which are potentially useful to scholars and researchers studying Buddhist religious traditions in China. Includes: 1. Language and Fonts 2. Texts 3. Dictionaries 4. Groups and Associations 5. Specific Topics 6. Collected Links, Bibliographies, and Guides

Resources hosted on the Charles Muller's academic website including a Dictionary of Buddhism, bibliographies, e-texts, indexes etc.

The Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) provides digital materials for reference and research (dictionaries, gazetteers, photographs, prints, drawings, maps, statistics, bibliographies, indexes, books, and journals) on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This program builds upon a two-year pilot project funded by the Association of Research Libraries' Global Resources Program with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Participants in the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S. universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia. The original Web design for the Digital South Asia Library and the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia was by Rebecca Moore.

Online version of Sailendra Biswas's 'Samsad Bengali-English dictionary.' from the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia

Buddhist Information and Education Network: Buddhist Studies, World Buddhist Directory, BuddhaZine - Online Magazine. Insight Meditation Online, eBooks on Buddhism.

국립민속박물관에서 한국민속을 집대성한 한국민속대백과사전입니다.

Academy of Korean studies Encyclopedia of Korean Culture

One of the leading electronic dictionaries of Sanskrit.

Online Dictionary for English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu.

Welcome to the Sanskrit lexicons prepared since 1994 by the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Cologne University. The 38 dictionaries are organized primarily by the secondary language (English, German, etc.), and then by date of publication (1832 till 1993). Each dictionary has several types of display (B L A M), as well as PDF scan and XML (in SLP1) files for download (D). All dictionaries are also available for offline usage in android phones via this application. It presumes that some form of stardict viewer is installed on your phone. You may try to install stardict viewer by searching for EBdic, colordict, goldendict or stardict.

チベット牧畜文化辞典のWeb版です。

The Digital Dictionaries of South Asia Project is a collaborative effort to widen access to South Asian Language Dictionaries. Established dictionaries for each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia will be mounted on the web for free and open access.

Online version of R.L. Turner's 'A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language: With indexes of all words quoted from other Indo-Aryan languages' from the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia.

Although called a 'vocabulary,' this might qualify as a small dictionary since there are more than 20,000 entries. For comparison, the Zhang Yisun (et al.) dictionary has about 30,000, but a numeric comparison would not be a fair one, since what you have before you is not strictly speaking a dictionary as it does not attempt full coverage, sometimes ignoring the better known words with well-known meanings... and includes compound words and an occasional phrase, even. It does contain materials that would be useful in making a future dictionary, this being the main reason for making it available in its current sorry state. I started it in April 1987, and will continue for as long as I can. This is meant to be a word-index (or what I would like to call a trouble-shooting word list) more than a dictionary. What this means is that technical, idiosyncratic, and obsolete usages and meanings are given priority over more common ones readily found in the available dictionaries. Even when it doesn't have definitions to offer, it tries to accumulate materials, and especially instances of usage, that may lead to eventual understanding. To some degree, the content reflects my own research focus on 11th- and especially 12th-century texts. There is a certain emphasis on medicine and materia medica, and on things, material objects, substances, mineralogy, zoology, botany, architecture and cultural institutions. At the same time there are a fair number of specialized meditation terms, Bon vocabulary, Buddhalogical concepts, foreign loanwords, etc. There is some but not much coverage of philosophical terms (i.e., technical jargon used in siddhānta and logical works: grub-mtha', tshad-ma etc.). There should be no proper names (even if there are a few in fact, mainly single-syllable clan names that can be a source of confusion) or book titles, but there are many official titles, with a few names & epithets of deities, etc. There are some strange etymologies proposed herein, which I hope will be thought stimulating even when given without much conviction or not entirely convincing. This work supplements, and does not have any idea of standing in place of, the existing dictionaries. This is an important point that I cannot emphasize enough. One of the main motives of making this vocabulary list was to better understand 12th-century Tibetan works (which means that a special effort was made to locate and record terms of obscure or unknown meaning; many of these are quoted in their original context, at times without suggesting any definition at all). Meanwhile, a very valuable dictionary of unusual words (based on a considerable range of previous glossaries, but not dictionaries) has been published: Btsan-lha Ngag-dbang-tshul-khrims, Brda-dkrol Gser-gyi Me-long, Mi-rigs Dpe-skrun-khang, 1997 (herein abbreviated as Btsan-lha). The main-entry content of Btsan-lha has been completely entered here, although the complete contents of the entries have not been (in effect, this work includes a word-index to Btsan-lha's main entries). It will be necessary to have the Btsan-lha as well as all the standard dictionaries (Yisun and Das in particular) in order to make full use of the lexicon in front of you.