Edward Cherlin wrote:
>
> I use Cangjie to access my character database, since it is usually much
> faster than radical and stroke count, and I usually don't know the Chinese
> pronunciation of characters I need to look up. The database gives me
> Radical number, Stroke count, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean pronunciations,
> and the numbers for the character entries in the Nelson and Mathews
> dictionaries. I would like to have a professional-quality electronic Han
> dictionary that included all of these lookup techniques and more.
You should check out http://www.wenlin.com/
A lot of people on this list know and love Wenlin and can recommend it.
It's the smartest thing out there for Chinese. The current release (demo
on the website) has very flexible look-up methods, including look-up by
component and pinyin. The current alpha version has full Ext A and B
support. Look for a new release soon.
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