Wenlin 3.3.6

Wenlin is CD-ROM software for the Macintosh and MS-Windows operating systems. Wenlin tackles the most frustrating obstacles for students, scholars, and speakers of Chinese with its versatile and easy-to-use interface. It is like having a seasoned scholar on your desktop!
An integrated solution, Wenlin combines a high-speed expandable Chinese dictionary, a full-featured text editor, and unique "flashcard" system all in one intuitive environment.
Wenlin is a comprehensive tool for begining students, life-long speakers, and scholars alike. Wenlin 3 includes an expanded and improved version of the already huge ABC Chinese-English Dictionary edited by John DeFrancis, giving it a total of over 10,000 characters and approximately 200,000 words and phrases.
Main features:
Dictionary Interface
- High speed customizable and expandable Chinese dictionary
- Over ten thousand characters, seventy-four thousand words and phrases
- Instant "point to" vocabulary look-up
- Click access to essential vocabulary info
- Extensive character descriptions and cross-referencing
- Pictures of ancient and modern forms of Chinese characters
- Desktop access to important Chinese scholarship and literature
- Click access to all words that contain a character, including definitions, ordered by frequency of usage
- Character look-up by component, including groups that share components
- Fast automatic search access to huge selection of literature, for finding examples in context
- Character lists arranged by stroke-count and pronunciation
- Automatically updated listing
Text Editor
- Reads, writes, edits, and prints Chinese documents
- Supports Unicode format, the most widely recognized world standard, as well as GB, Big5, UTF-8 and HZ
- Built-in selection of Chinese literature, current new media included
- Word-wrap, undo, cut, copy, paste, search, and replace
- Unlimited document size
- Characters and words entered using phonetic conversion or handwriting recognition
- Instant dictionary integrated with text editor
- Combines simple and full form Chinese characters, pinyin, and English in one document
- Compatible with other Chinese language applications, pen/tablet tools
"Flashcards" System
- Automated drill and review
- Interactive testing, multiple-choice and composed-answer
- Scoring and tracking
- Dictionary access while memorizing vocabulary
- Simultaneous display of documents, definitions, lists, and flashcards
Learning
- Animated Stroke-By-Stroke Display
- Instant Handwriting Recognition
- Audio-CD quality studio recordings of all Mandarin syllables.
Version restrictions:
- The Demo has only a miniature dictionary, with a few dozen vocabulary items. The complete Wenlin dictionary has over 10,000 characters and about 200,000 words and phrases.
- The Demo doesnt include any sound files. The complete Wenlin has Audio CD-quality studio recordings of all the syllables of Mandarin Chinese, in both a mans voice and a womans voice.
- The Demo includes only one sample Chinese text. The complete Wenlin includes a collection of Chinese literature.
- The complete Wenlin comes on a CD-ROM, with a 248-page Users Guide. The same CD-ROM runs on Macintosh and MS-Windows.
- The complete Wenlin enables you to edit the dictionary, to add new vocabulary and modify definitions.
Enhancements:
- New Dictionary
- Dictionary Menu
- Font Menu
- Handwriting Recognition
- MacOS X. Native compatibility with Apples latest operating system
- Unicode and GB Support
- Radical Look-up Method
- Printing
- List Numbers
- Options Menu.