The chinesenotes.com dictionary can help you look up individual words or all the words in a phrase. Because Chinese words do not have spaces between them in sentences it can help to look up all the words in a phrase. Especially if you are a beginner or trying to make the jump from study to using Chinese in real life it can often be hard to figure out the boundaries between the words. This is where the 'phrase' option in the dictionary is used.
To look up all the words in a phrase (1) select the 'phrase' radio button. The text input field will change to a larger text area. Then (2) cut-and-paste Chinese text into the text area. Click the Search button to process the text. The results (3) will show the different words in the phrase. The Hanyu Pinyin (4) will be shown below that. Finally, the Chinese text will be shown again but in a form that allows you to put your mouse over the characters with information displayed in a mouse-over bubble (5). This is shown in the figure below.
In the example shown in the screenshot the classical Chinese text 佛告閻羅天子 and this is broken down by the dictionary into three words: 佛 (the Buddha), 告 (told), 閻羅天子 (Yama).
To look up all the words in a phrase (1) select the 'phrase' radio button. The text input field will change to a larger text area. Then (2) cut-and-paste Chinese text into the text area. Click the Search button to process the text. The results (3) will show the different words in the phrase. The Hanyu Pinyin (4) will be shown below that. Finally, the Chinese text will be shown again but in a form that allows you to put your mouse over the characters with information displayed in a mouse-over bubble (5). This is shown in the figure below.
In the example shown in the screenshot the classical Chinese text 佛告閻羅天子 and this is broken down by the dictionary into three words: 佛 (the Buddha), 告 (told), 閻羅天子 (Yama).
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