I'm currently upgrading my site and many links have been broken recently because of this. My apologies to everyone who has wanted to use my tools but have been unable. Soon all of the www.erols.com/eepeter addresses will be invalid; please link directly to http://www.mandarintools.com. I'm also porting the CGI based tools to Java and creating an off-line version of my tool set. Look for more things to come!

Tools for Learning Chinese
Chinese Flashcards Study Chinese characters with Java flashcards	Add Pinyin to a File Add pinyin to any Chinese file on your computer	Romanization Converter Pinyin, Wade Giles, BoPoMoFo
Chinese Text Annotator Break a text into words and add links to dictionary entries.
Tools for Using Chinese
Character Dictionary Faster Unicode Version Look up Chinese characters by English, pinyin, radical/stroke, and Cantonese.	Create Chinese GIFs On-line Type in Big5, GB, or UTF-8 text and get back an equivalent GIF graphics file	Big5 <-> GB Converter A Java applet where you can input text of one encoding into one window and have the converted text appear in a different window.
Chinese/English Dictionary Look up words in Chinese by pinyin or English	Convert Files between GB, Big5, and UTF-8 Convert a whole file at once on your computer.	Guess Chinese Encoding Determine the most likely Chinese encoding (GB, HZ, Big5, UTF-8, or other) for a file.
Convert HTML Escapes to Bytes Convert a Chinese file saved with HTML ampersand escape sequences back into the original encoding.
China Reference Tools
Western-Chinese Calendar Converter Convert between Solar and Lunar Calendars	Get a Chinese Name Get a Chinese name inspired by your English name	Chinese Family Relationships Found out how to say "father's older brother's wife" in Chinese
Computer Tools
Chinese Digit Counter A perl script that I wrote to create the counter below.	Chinese Encoding Guesser Perl5 code to determine the most likely Chinese encoding for a given text string.	HTML Escapes to Byte Converter Convert the ampersand escape sequences that many HTML editors save GB and Big5 as back into GB or Big5 (or any other eight-bit encoding).
Word97 Chinese Input Macro A free macro to input Chinese into Word97 documents without a separate Chinese sytem.	Chinese Segmenter Breaks a Chinese text file into words.	Chinese Input Methods for NT-Emacs Precompiled LEIM distribution for Windows Emacs. Unzip in "emacs-20.3.1/lisp/international"

Have suggestions for a tool you'd like to see here? Found a bug that needs fixing? You can reach me through my contact page. In your message, please include the type of operating system you are running (Windows 95, Macintosh, Unix, etc.), the browser you are using (Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, etc.), and the browser version (2, 3 or 4).

For general Chinese resources, including information about reading and writing Chinese on computers, please visit my Chinese Links page.

Other Chinese/Java and Chinese Tools Links

• Ochlocrat's Learn Mandarin page: Several useful applets and applications for making Chinese GIF files, painting Chinese in applications, etc. Also a section using Voice of America Chinese broadcasts to study Mandarin.
• Yu Mingjian's Homepage Various useful on-line and off-line programs relating to Chinese.

• Ochlocrat's Create Chinese GIF's program. Used by the flashcard and character dictionary.
• UNIHAN.TXT: A marvelous collection of Han character information available at the Unicode Consortium.
• Data files from IFCSS's software data directory.
• Frequency of Usage and Number of Strokes of Chinese Characters
• CEDICT: A fast growing public-domain Chinese-English dictionary.

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