Wenlin 3.4.1

Wenlin - A useful software for learning Chinese.

A useful software for learning Chinese.

Wenlin tackles the most frustrating obstacles for students, scholars, and speakers of Chinese with its versatile and easy-to-use interface. It is like having a seasoned scholar on your desktop!

An integrated solution, Wenlin combines a high-speed expandable Chinese dictionary, a full-featured text editor, and unique "flashcard" system all in one intuitive environment. Wenlin is a comprehensive tool for beginning students, life-long speakers, and scholars alike.

Wenlin will certainly help you learn, practice and improve your Chinese language skills!

Wenlin features :

Dictionary Interface:
- High speed customizable and expandable Chinese dictionary
- Over ten thousand characters, over 200,000 words and phrases
- Instant "point to" vocabulary look-up
- Click access to all words that contain a character, including definitions, ordered by frequency of usage
- Character look-up by component, including groups that share components
- Fast automatic search access to huge selection of literature, for finding examples in context
- Character lists arranged by stroke-count and pronunciation
- Automatically updated listing

Text Editor:
- Reads, writes, edits, and prints Chinese documents
- Supports Unicode format, the most widely recognized world standard, as well as GB, Big5, UTF-8 and HZ
- Built-in selection of Chinese literature, current new media included
- Characters and words entered using phonetic conversion or handwriting recognition
- Instant dictionary integrated with text editor
- Combines simple and full form Chinese characters, pinyin, and English in one document
- Compatible with other Chinese language applications, pen/tablet tools


Requirements:

- 550 megabytes on hard drive (for complete installation, including sound files), OR
- 210 megabytes on hard drive (for partial installation, excluding sound files)
- 100 megabytes RAM (in addition to RAM needed by the operating system)

Limitations:

- The Demo has only a miniature dictionary, with a few dozen vocabulary items. The complete Wenlin dictionary has over 10,000 characters and about 200,000 words and phrases.
- The Demo doesn't include any sound files. The complete Wenlin has Audio CD-quality studio recordings of all the syllables of Mandarin Chinese, in both a man's voice and a woman's voice.
- The Demo includes only one sample Chinese text. The complete Wenlin includes a collection of Chinese literature.
- The complete Wenlin enables you to edit the dictionary, to add new vocabulary and modify definitions.

Wenlin 3.4.1 is licensed as Demo for the Windows operating system / platform. Wenlin is provided as a free to try download for all software users (Demo).