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• alphabetized by pinyin romanization
• includes both simplified and traditional character sets
• database can be downloaded (in .zip format) and used off-line

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“Features

• Animates every Chinese Character.
• Handles Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
• Shows Radical, Pinyin, Zhuyin, Jyutping and English meanings and stroke count.
• Produce Stroke Sequences onto files and/or onto the Clipboard.
• Produce Animated Gif.
• Can add Pinyin, Zhuyin or Jyutping as Captions to Sequence and Animated GIF.
• Create Worksheet for writing practices.
• Radical can be copied to documents.
• Can highlight individual strokes. Ideal for illustrating the basic strokes.
• Shows associated frequently used phrases.
• Animates in 2D and 3D.
• Chinese/English Dictionary (CEDICT & CCDICT).
• Chinese/German Dictionary (HANDEDICT).
• Text Annotation Feature(Chinese to English or Chinese to German).
• Traditional/Simplified Translation.
• Mulilingual User Interface.
• Fully Resizable, enables you to create high quality sequences and animated gifs at variable sizes without the need for resizing.
• Multi-rows and Multi-columns animation.
• Colors, Plan and Grid are fully customizable.
• Can use image as background.
• Shows accepted Stroke Order in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.
• Pronounce Stroke names.
• Recitation synchronized to cursor display and text highlighting.
• Animation and Worksheet can be loaded from and save to files. If you want to create many sequences without having to type in one character at a time, you can create an animation file with all the Chinese characters and use the Sequence->Save to File to save the mulitple sequences to files.”