LibGuides: Chinese Research Guide: Language

Alphabet and Script Guides

Chinese Writing and Calligraphy by Wendan Li
ISBN: 9781441671356
Publication Date: 2009

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Coverage ranges from early childhood to higher education, with specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Indexes and abstracts over 3,500 journals, as well as providing full text for numerous journals, books, and conference papers.
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts over 1.4 million records, links to over 337,000 full-text documents of educational literature and resources.

LINE Dict
Formerly known as "nciku", a useful Eng-CHN (or vice versa) dictionary that comes with the ability to draw unknown characters if you don't know the words for them by clicking on the brush icon at the right of the search box.
MDBG Dictionary
Excellent Chinese-English dictionary that has character conversion from different formats and a character specific dictionary. Also includes links to language study tools such as flash cards, quizzes, etc.
WordReference in Chinese
Online Chinese-English dictionary

Talking Chinese Dictionary and Instant Translator
Call Number: PL 1455 O94 2003
ISBN: 9780195964592
Publication Date: 2004-11-18
Print resource; available in the reference section