Wenlin Opens the Gate to Chinese

Welcome to Wenlin!

Wenlin is CD-ROM software for the Macintosh and MS-Windows operating systems. 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 begining students, life-long speakers, and scholars 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.

The Power of Wenlin

Dictionary Interface

• 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
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We also have free Wenlin Demos to download:

Download the MS-Windows (XP/Me/2000/98/95/NT4) version. 

It's in an installer program named wenlindemo337.exe (3 Mb). (After downloading the installer, double-click to run.)

Download the MacOS X version. 

It's in a disk-image file named wenlindemo337.dmg (4 Mb) 

(After downloading the disk-image file, mount it by double-clicking to obtain a volume named Wenlin3Demo Volume.)

Download the Macintosh Classic version. 

It's in a Bin-Hex file named wenlindemo337.hqx (5 Mb). (It contains Wenlin Demo 3.3.7.sea, which contains a folder Wenlin3Demo. If extraction doesn't occur automatically, try double-clicking, or drag the wenlindemo337.hqx file onto Stuffit Expander.)

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