Wenlin is a comprehensive piece of software that helps us to learn the Chinese language. This program can be used by anyone interested in learning/improving his or her command of Chinese, from complete beginners to advanced students, including native Chinese speakers.
This learning program provides a huge Chinese-English dictionary with more than 10000 words and 300000 compound words and phrases, including pieces of Chinese literature. Wenlin also features a text editor, audio flashcards with native human voices (with Mandarin pronunciation), etc. We can search a word by writing it with the brush tool (handwriting recognition), or by writing its pinyin pronunciation.
It is possible to change the pinyin fonts and Hanzi fonts and sizes, edit (cut/copy/paste) the dictionary and add our own words to it, print the documents, view the English or the Chinese word list, and make some other customizations. If we decide to purchase this product, we will receive it on a CD. This program runs under Windows and Mac platforms. We can get a good approach at what this program has to offer by trying the free downloadable demo version.
v4.1 [Jan 25, 2013]
- Added flexibility in the location of required files (the “Tushuguan” folder).
- Updated Zìdian (Chinese character) dictionary.
- Updated Cídian (Chinese word) dictionary.
- Updated Yīng-Hàn (English-Chinese) dictionary.
- Updated Shuōwén Jiězì (Ancient Chinese character) dictionary.
- When the Simplified Characters option is turned off, full form characters are now shown in all English-Chinese entries and in all example sentences in Chinese-English entries.
- The Stroking Box can now run without stopping, in parallel with any work you are doing in other Wenlin windows.
- A command in the Help menu: Check For Updates, for conveniently making sure you have the most recent version of Wenlin.
- Added several Advanced Options.
- Complete Unicode 6.2 CJK character set support, including approximately 85,000 CDL descriptions.
- Corrections for various defects in version 4.0.
