Hi Product Hunt, I'm Hema.

Mandarin is my first language. ChineseDict started when I tried to help friends who were learning Chinese and saw how many lookups ended at a one-line definition. They still didn't know how the word sounds in a sentence, how to write it, or whether it was worth learning yet.

So every entry on ChineseDict has:

- tone-coloured pinyin with a female and a male voice

- example sentences you can play one by one

- stroke order you can watch, then trace yourself

- the HSK 3.0 level

The text analyzer takes a whole paragraph, adds pinyin to every word, shows each word's HSK level, and converts between simplified and traditional. The browser extension does lookups on any page: hold Shift and point at a word.

I'd most like to hear from people learning Chinese right now: what do you still look up somewhere else after using ChineseDict?