佛说阿弥陀经 The Amitabha Sutra

我因为看佛经想要学习古文。最近我读了佛说阿弥陀经。佛说阿弥陀经是大乘佛教重点经典之一。这个网页

chinesenotes.com/buddhism_amituo_jing.php

有佛说阿弥陀经的中文和英文文本而且鼠标悬停可以看词的英语和拼音；点击中文词可以看词的详细中文和英文数据。

I have been studying Classical Chinese with the goal of reading Buddhist sutras. Recently, I read the Amitabha Sutra. The Amitabha Sutra is one of the most important texts in Mahayana Buddhism. This web page

chinesenotes.com/buddhism_amituo_jing.php

contains both Chinese and English text of the Amitabha Sutra. Mouse over to see English and pinyin for a Chinese word. Click the word to see full details in Chinese and English.

中文偏旁部首名称 Names of Radicals and Character Parts

学习好多年中文之中经常发生这个情况：跟中国朋友聊天这个朋友要描写一个汉字，没有笔和纸的话他要用偏旁名称描写这个字。但是，除了几个简单的偏旁名称，比如三点水，我没学过偏旁名称。终于我现在学了偏旁名称并且创建了一个关于偏旁名称的网页。

chinesenotes.com/ref_pianpang.php

While learning Chinese over many years I often found myself in the situation of talking with a Chinese friend who was trying to describe a particular character to me and a pen and piece of paper was not handy. Invariably, that person would describe the character to me in terms of the different parts of the character. The problem with this was that I did not know the names of the different parts of Chinese characters (pianpang), except for a few obvious ones like san dian shui. Finally, I got around to learning the names of all the common pianpang. I made a list of these at

chinesenotes.com/ref_pianpang.php