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Pyx
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23 March 2010 at 12:08am | IP Logged

zhongwen.com
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23 March 2010 at 4:58am | IP Logged

hvorki_ne wrote:

Komodo wrote:

I use the book 'Cracking the Chinese Puzzles' along with the mdbg.net website. In fact you can even use only the mdgb.net website, but the book 'Cracking the Chinese Puzzles' gives you some etymological information on each character, and I think these informations ease the process of memorization of the characters.

Can you give me a direct link to that website? I'm coming up with a 'site not found' error. And I think that the etymology does help. My friend learned Japanese, and the more complicated symbols, knowing all the symbols that makes it up helps, so I imagine it's the same in chinese.

Sure.

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

I like it better than the nciku.com website because it's lighter and it shows the characters written in plain style. Fancy calligraphy is nice to look at but I believe it can confuse the regular student.
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Pyx
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23 March 2010 at 5:06am | IP Logged

Komodo wrote:

Sure.
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

I like it better than the nciku.com website because it's lighter and it shows the characters written in plain style. Fancy calligraphy is nice to look at but I believe it can confuse the regular student.

I suppose you're just talking about the stroke order feature? Because nciku has a lot of great feature which make it the best online dictionary IMO. You've got A LOT of dictionaries, EN->CN, and good example sentences, for instance.
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Komodo
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23 March 2010 at 5:47am | IP Logged

Pyx wrote:

Komodo wrote:

Sure.
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php

I like it better than the nciku.com website because it's lighter and it shows the characters written in plain style. Fancy calligraphy is nice to look at but I believe it can confuse the regular student.

Both are amazing websites, they're in fact very similar when it comes to features, but I'm a long time Internet user, so I tend to like cleanly designed websites, and mdbg.net is better at that.

About the characters, it has nothing to do with their stroke order. On nciku they only provide a highly stylized version of each character and how they're drawn, on mdbg.net you can see the character being written using the plain style, but if you like they also provide some fancier calligraphy styles. I like this feature a lot and that's why I prefer mdbg.net, but nciku is a great website too, as long as you don't mind the fact that they don't provide characters written in plain style.
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23 March 2010 at 7:07am | IP Logged

When you say fancier calligraphy v plainer- do you mean traditional v simplified chinese, or something else?
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Pyx
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23 March 2010 at 7:12am | IP Logged

hvorki_ne wrote:

When you say fancier calligraphy v plainer- do you mean traditional v simplified chinese, or something else?

No, calligraphy:
===
calligraphy |kəˈligrəfē|
noun
decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering.
• the art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush.
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Greek kalligraphia, from kalligraphos ‘person who writes beautifully,’ from kallos ‘beauty’ + graphein ‘write.’
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23 March 2010 at 7:40am | IP Logged

hvorki_ne wrote:

When you say fancier calligraphy v plainer- do you mean traditional v simplified chinese, or something else?

'fancy' calligraphy style

'Plain' calligraphy style

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Pyx
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23 March 2010 at 7:53am | IP Logged

Haha, THAT is fancy for you? :D What would you call cursive writing then? :D

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