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Nciku Chinese Dictionary
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Nciku Mobile (m.nciku.com) is an English/Chinese, Chinese/English online mobile dictionary. It's a simple but effective tool providing translations of English words into Chinese and vice/versa. Nciku supports entry and display of simplified and traditional Chinese characters and Pinyin, the familiar representation ( Beijing and Ni hao, for example) of Chinese in the Roman alphabet.

In addition to literal translations to and from Pinyin and Chinese characters, Nciku provides phonetic pronunciation of English words and examples using the translated words in sentences. Nciku has an English user interface, however the site displays Chinese characters using double-byte characters rather than images so they don't appear on most Western handsets. To make the most of Nciku you really need a phone with a Chinese language pack so that you can see (and enter, if your know how) Chinese characters.