Hanzim Features

Features

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• Display characters with same radical, phonetic component, and pronunciation
• Display compounds a character participates in in first and second position
• Look-up by pinyin
• Look-up by radical
• Look-up by English meaning
• Look-up-by-paste, and copy to clipboard functions
• Large Chinese-English dictionary
• Narrow focus to most common characters
• "Live" look-up from Chinese text

This first image shows the main window for the progam. The character displayed by itself in a box near the center is the main character being focused on. Compounds employing it in the initial position are listed to its right, while those employing it in the final position are listed to its left. Characters with the same radical are listed in the lower left, those with the same remaining component (character sans radical) are in the middle, those with the same pronunciation are on the right. You can click on any character on the screen to make it the new main character.

The text box just above the main character contains the pinyin representation of that character. You can click in there, type in a new pinyin string, and hit return to pull up the first character in the program's dictionary with that pronunciation.

Selecting a radical from the stroke-count menus instantly brings up the full list of characters using that radical on the lower left, ordered by pinyin.

In "Ying-Han" mode, entering an English word looks up characters and compounds with that meaning.

Hanzim integrates with the rest of your desktop. "Paste" a character from another application to look it up. "Copy" from Hanzim to put the current character on the clipboard for insertion elsewhere.

The slider here sets the minimum relative frequency in common usage for displayed characters. Dragging it to the left restricts Hanzim to the most common characters and compounds. Dragging it to the right allows it to display more or all of its 6,200 character zidian and 18,000 word cidian. The "Random" button selects a random character out of the available set as a testing or study aid. The radio buttons let you switch instantly between simplified and traditional to see which characters differ.

Paste Chinese text into the Hanzim Reader window and mouse over characters / words you don't know to see their definitions. A click brings you straight to the corresponding entries in Hanzim's main window.