Hanzi Pinyin Meaning

Using the dictionary in two steps:

  1. Type some text in Chinese in the text field above
  2. Press ENTER or click the arrow button to see the translation

Examples of text to translate:

Simple sentence

我每天早上上课

Complex sentence

1月4日下午,市委书记孙政才走访市人大、市政协机关,看望慰问机关干部。 他强调,要把深入学习贯彻党的十八大精神作为首要政治任务,充分发挥人大、 政协的职能作用,群策群力,团结协作,求真务实,真抓实干,为在西部地区 率先实现全面建成小康社会目标作出新的贡献。

Shenmeci is an open-source project developed by Rodolfo Carvalho. The code is hosted at GitHub.

The development began as a final project for the Language and Information Processing class at Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学).

Under the hood, the project is about constructing a simple, fast and enough accurate Chinese text sementation engine. Simple means it is easy to use and understand the implementation. Fast means that the user should have a feeling of instantaneous results. Enough accurate means that the correctness of the segmentation is enough to provide useful Chinese-English translations.

For providing translations it uses the Creative Commons licensed Chinese-English dictionary CC-CEDICT.