ChinaScribe Features
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What is ChinaScribe?
ChinaScribe is a versatile Chinese dictionary program that can be used to create or edit Microsoft Word documents.
Creating and editing documents that contain Chinese characters and romanization (e.g. Pinyin) has previously been difficult for non-native speakers. ChinaScribe makes this much easier.
A Comprehensive Dictionary
The ChinaScribe dictionary contains over 190,000 Chinese words. Many words in the dictionary have English and German definitions.
You can add and amend dictionary entries. It is also possible to create dictionary definitions in other languages (e.g. French, Spanish etc).
You are able to import dictionary entries from other ChinaScribe users or from other dictionaries downloaded from the Internet, such as CC-CEDICT (Chinese-English) or HanDeDict (Chinese-German). It is also easy to export your dictionary entries to a file to share with others.
A Versatile Chinese Document Editor
ChinaScribe can be used to insert Chinese words into Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org documents. Chinese characters or Pinyin can be inserted on their own. Alternatively, the Pinyin and/or definition can be included above the Chinese characters (as shown to the left).
ChinaScribe can also be used to ‘Pinyinize’ Microsoft Word documents containing only Chinese characters. This is especially useful if you are learning Chinese, and are not yet familiar with many Chinese characters. Chinese characters pasted into Microsoft Word from the Internet (or some other source) can have the Pinyin and/or definitions automatically added by ChinaScribe.
Other ChinaScribe features include:
- A customizable toolbar
- A ‘Watch Clipboard’ function that automatically looks up Chinese words copied to the clipboard from another application
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Support for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Download ChinaScribe now and try it out for yourself.