Passion for Chinese culture.
A dictionary for exploring Chinese characters, words and their connections, with source attribution at the centre of every data layer.
The next-generation Chinese dictionary
Most dictionaries answer one lookup at a time. zimai connects every answer to the next, shows where each fact comes from, and adapts to the Chinese you actually read.
Connected, not listed
Characters, their parts, the words they form and the Classical passages that use them sit in one map. Follow 月 into 明 and 明月, or through 朋 and 有 straight into the Analects, instead of starting every lookup again.
8,243 characters and 125,400 words in one graph
Sourced, never guessed
Every reading, meaning and quotation names its edition and licence. zimai combines open sources into something more useful than each alone, and leaves a gap visible rather than filling it with an invented reading or a made-up frequency.
CC-CEDICT · CC-Canto · HanDeDict · Unihan · pinned Classical editions
Your Chinese, your language
Mandarin and Cantonese are equals; Traditional or Simplified and English or German meanings are choices of their own, and a session never mixes languages. Write 香, then 港: candidates update with every stroke, and zimai knows the two form a word. Recognition runs on your device.
Mandarin and Cantonese · English and German · handwriting stays on your device
Operator
c/o Oliver Simon
5F, 1-2-10 Take, Kagoshima City
Kagoshima 890-0045, Japan
Sources & contributors
Dictionary entries, character data and Classical texts retain their own source credits and licences. Operator attribution does not replace the authorship of those materials.