web-based Chinese character dictionaries
World Wide Web Chinese-Japanese-Korean to English Dictionary. Detailed definitions of over 8,000 characters. www.acmuller.gol.com
Unicode’s Unihan database. Short definitions for over 20,000 characters with page references to major CJK printed dictionaries and pronunciations for Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean. charts.unicode.org/unihan.html
WWW JDIC (Japanese-English character dictionary). Still growing grandfather of East Asian web dictionaries. www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdicinf.html
Taiwan MOE’s Guoyu Cidian (Chinese-Chinese). New edition of a standard dictionary, now including 160,000 words. Will eventually be released in printed form. www.edu.tw/clc/dict