Our CJKI English to Simplified Chinese Dictionary covers 80,000 headwords, expandable to 100,000, of general vocabulary and important proper names. Optimized for the convenience of users of electronic dictionaries and online translation tools, it has just the right amount of detail: enough equivalents to give an in-depth understanding, yet short enough not to clutter up the screen.

This dictionary is being used in such well-known, revolutionary translation tools like Babylon and Quicktionary, as well as on various mobile platforms around the world including TangoTown in Japan and Australia. A Traditional Chinese edition is also available.

Please see the sister edition, the CJKI Simplified Chinese to English Dictionary, which contains over 700,000 entries.

The Simplified Chinese (SC) used in this dictionary is not merely a code-conversion equivalent of the Traditional Chinese (TC) edition. It has been carefully proofread to ensure accuracy both on the orthographic and the lexemic levels. The former is similar to American 'color' vs. British 'colour', whereas the latter corresponds to American 'gas' vs. British 'petrol'. For example, 'laser' is translated to 激光 in SC but to 雷射 in TC.

For details, see Jack Halpern's paper The Pitfalls and Complexities of Chinese to Chinese Conversion, presented at several international conferences.

1. ENGLISH: English headword
2. POS: Part-of-speech (click here for details).
3. CHINESE: Simplified Chinese equivalent