Sunday, May 01, 2011

The RTE (Mand.) Web Lookup Page Now Also Supports Searching by Pinyin

The Referenced Theo. Expressions (Chinese + Pinyin + English) Web Lookup page now supports searching by pinyin in addition to supporting searching by English or by Chinese characters.


Here are some comments by the one who produces the RTE:

RTE web lookup now supports pinyin entry (without tones or with tone numbers), but the results are still sorted by English for now.

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I've now hacked it so that an "English" query will also check pinyin, but AFTER the English. So "women" will find "luxury-loving women" first and then all the wo3men words after. The links to other dictionaries still query their "search by English" interfaces though.

A RTE (Mand.) Web Lookup link can be found in the Links sidebar on the right of this page. A similar link can be found on the Links page at tiandi.info.