Groundbreaking new learners' Chinese character
dictionary for Pleco, a revolutionary online course that teaches you how to master characters, and more!
Master Chinese
Characters
Revealing the logic behind Chinese characters
We created our dictionary to focus on understanding — by showing how Chinese characters work as a system, rather than as a bunch of disconnected single characters to be individually mastered.
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"Every so often a really good resource comes along. It's The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters."
-Prof. Victor Mair
University of Pennsylvania
"I feel like I have a virtual 1-on-1 Chinese teacher, giving me a better sense of how the writing system functions."
-Dr. David Moser
Yenching Institute, Peking University
"They have put a lot of thought into how foreigners learn Chinese, and they’ve come up with a better way to learn characters."
-John Pasden
AllSet Learning & Mandarin Companion