Stop struggling with your Chinese reading! Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese is like having a seasoned Chinese scholar on your desktop. Used by all of the Yale-China Teaching Fellows, Wenlin is an indispensable reference tool for beginning students, life-long speakers, and scholars of Chinese alike with its versatile and easy-to-use interface.

Wenlin is CD-ROM software for the Macintosh and MS-Windows operating systems. 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 alike. Wenlin 3 includes an expanded and improved version of the already huge ABC Chinese-English Dictionary edited by John DeFrancis, giving it a total of over 10,000 characters and approximately 200,000 words and phrases.

Wenlin's unique interface provides instant "point to" vocabulary look-up and "click" access to detailed vocabulary information. Wenlin's extensive character descriptions and cross-referencing include pictures of characters in ancient and modern forms, simple and full form, and pinyin. Wenlin reads, writes, edits, and prints Chinese documents of any size and includes built-in selection of Chinese literature and current media. You can copy and paste Chinese text between Wenlin and other applications. Unicode, GB, Big5, and UTF-8 Encodings are supported. Automated drill and review includes scoring, tracking, interactive testing, multiple-choice and composed-answer. Other powerful features include animated stroke-by-stroke display, handwriting recognition, and audio-CD quality studio recordings of all Mandarin syllables. Multi-user packs are available.

Complete List of Features:

• High speed customizable and expandable Chinese dictionary
• Over ten thousand characters, seventy-four thousand words and
• phrases
• Instant "point to" vocabulary look-up
• Click access to essential vocabulary info
• Extensive character descriptions and cross-referencing
• Pictures of ancient and modern forms of Chinese characters
• Desktop access to important Chinese scholarship and literature
• 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
• Word-wrap, undo, cut, copy, paste, search, and replace
• Unlimited document size
• 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
• "Flashcards" System
• Automated drill and review
• Interactive testing, multiple-choice and composed-answer
• Scoring and tracking
• Dictionary access while memorizing vocabulary
• Simultaneous display of documents, definitions, lists, and flashcards
• Learning
• Animated Stroke-By-Stroke Display
• Instant Handwriting Recognition
• Audio-CD quality studio recordings of all Mandarin syllables