Language Tech: PowerWord Lite

While 'Grabber' is a wonderful tool that makes navigation of Chinese sites possible for me, it has a major weakness that the offered English words are given in alphabetical order. This means that obscure, and often archaic, words come before commonly used words, which I suspect is the reason for some of the bizarre translations from Chinese into English we see. I appreciate that marking words with a popularity index would be an enormous task!
By the way, Thank you to Ben Caesar for this site, and this series of pages; installation has been so much easier when you don't have to guess what all the Chinese means!

Thank you thank you! I can't believe my luck in finding your article! I speak Mandarin with no problems, but reading has always been a HUGE problem for me. Your article really explained step by step what I need to do and how to use this piece of software. Thanks a lot for doing this!

Best Christmas and New Year wishes to you,

Greg

i need to type any chinese character to know the meening and pinying.if i can type han zi than it will be better.

i want to find the meening by writting the chinese character by mouse.

i hope i can read all chinese character,without pinying.

Subhashc - I suggest you look into an excellent Chinese study application called 'Pleco'. You can buy it for Apple's iPhone, iPad or for a PDA (Windows Mobile or Palm-based). The application allows you to write on the screen and look up characters and words very easily. It also has an excellent range of dictionaries, a reader, flashcard system and speech. If you have a device it runs on, you can try out a demo and see if it works for you. Alternatively, I would suggest it's even worth investing in a compatible device. Go to http://www.pleco.com to find out more about it. I'm yet to see any software as sophisticated as a Chinese reference and for Chinese character and general Chinese language study.