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Product Features
 Dictionaries,
Books, and Lessons
- Main Dictionary (contains over 8,000 Chinese words)
- Elementary Chinese Readers (books 1 - 4)
- Practical Chinese Readers (books 1 and 2)
- Create your own dictionaries
- Sentences (add-on package)
Select a dictionary, book # and lesson # from the toolbar:
Chinese Characters
- Over 6,300 Chinese characters and their traditional form
- View both simplified and traditional characters at the same
time
- Includes all characters listed in the paper "A Study
of the One Thousand Most Frequently Used Chinese Characters" (published in the
October 1988 issue of the Journal for Chinese Language Teachers Association - JCLTA)
- Retrieve all words in a dictionary containing a specific
Chinese character. This is useful when you want to see how and when a
specific character is used in related words.
- Find a specific Chinese character (syllable)
- Up to 10 Chinese characters per word or phrase
- Specify number of strokes (or a range) when searching for
Chinese characters. For example, view characters with 5 strokes (and starts with Pinyin
"d" ... and tone #2)
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Simplified and Traditional Characters
Chinese characters can be viewed in both
simplified and traditional forms. Whenever a character has a gray, horizontal bar beneath it, you know that both forms (simplified and traditional) exist. Clicking on the bar displays the other form for this character. Click this bar again to hide the alternative form.
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Viewing simplified Chinese characters |
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Viewing traditional Chinese characters |
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Viewing the simplified and traditional
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View Character Stroke Order
You can view the stroke order for more than 1,700 Chinese
characters.
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Audio
- Audio is included for all vocabulary words found in the Practical
Chinese Reader Book #1 (564 words)
- All audio is a female voice by a native Chinese speaker. She
has been trained and worked as a TV and radio announcer in Beijing, China.
- Auto-Play the audio while auto-advancing through a group of words
- An optional Audio Pack is
available for CCT6
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Testing Facility
- 19 different testing methods
- Test with or without a timer
- View a hint (which freezes the timer, if used)
- Option to repeat words during the testing cycle
- For multiple choice, you can specify the incorrect entries
to randomly come from the currently tested group or from the currently selected dictionary
- Option to automatically remove words that are answered
correctly on the first attempt. This allows one to test again only the words that were
answered incorrectly, skipped, or timed-out (if the timer was used)
- Auto-Play audio for each new word being tested
- Preview the correct answer
- Display the total elapsed testing time
- Display the average time per word during elapsed time
- Select a word that has been tested and view its Chinese
characters and Pinyin with tones
- Learn more about testing your knowledge
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Finding and Retrieving Words
- Find a specific word given English or Pinyin. Use wildcard
characters (? and *) in your search patterns.
- Options in the Find Word dialog (exact match, any part of
field)
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Grouping Words
Retrieve and view the words in a dictionary that meet the criteria you specify (for example, a range of lesson numbers, specific parts of speech, etc.)
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Display Features
- Auto-display feature ... display words in the current group
automatically by advancing to the next word after a user-defined number of seconds. Can
also specify continuously looping through the group of words.
- Delay feature ... delays the display of the Pinyin and
English fields after the Chinese character(s) have been displayed. Similarly, delay the
display of the Chinese characters after the Pinyin and English fields have been displayed.
The length of delay is user-defined. Can be used with the auto-display feature.
- Change the background picture. Three pictures are supplied
or add your own background picture.
- View current group in a table/grid
- Sort words by English or Pinyin
- Save application defaults (utilized the next time the
program is run) such as screen coordinates, view options, testing options, etc.
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Compatible with Chinese Font Systems
By default, Chinese characters in CCT6 are displayed as
bitmap pictures. These bitmap pictures (over 6,300 plus their traditional forms) are
installed with CCT6. You can alternatively view Chinese characters as a font. This
requires that you are simultaneously running a Chinese font system such as Chinese Star,
RichWin, Chinese Partner by TwinBridge, Chinese Windows by Microsoft, etc. When viewing
Chinese characters as a font, you can select any Chinese font installed on your system and
set the font size.
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Annotations
Add your own comment, definition or sample sentence (up
to 32,000 characters) for each word in
every dictionary.
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Add your own dictionary entry
You can add a new entry to any dictionary. You build a
new Chinese word by first finding a Chinese character and then dragging & dropping it
on one of the 10 blank cells comprising a Chinese word/phrase/sentence. To find a Chinese
character, click the "Find a Chinese Character..." button or search/browse any
of the other dictionaries. Once a Chinese character is in one of the cells, you can move
it to another cell location via drag & drop. Continue to define the new word and
specify other attributes such as parts of speech and then click the "Add New
Word" button to save the new entry to the dictionary.
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Edit any dictionary entry
Follow the same procedures above to edit or redefine any
dictionary entry. It's easy!
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Move Words
You can move a word from one dictionary to another
dictionary (or within the same dictionary). Simply select the destination dictionary name
and lesson number within that dictionary.
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Copy Words
You can copy a word from one dictionary to another
dictionary (or within the same dictionary). Simply select the destination dictionary name
and lesson number within that dictionary.
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Create your own dictionary
You can add your own custom dictionary to CCT6! Then you
can move or copy words from other dictionaries to this new dictionary ... or build your
own words using the Add New Word feature.
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Radicals
Locate Chinese characters by using radicals. Radicals are
the root elements or sub-components of Chinese characters. In CCT6, view radicals and
retrieve all characters with a specific radical. You can also find the radical for any
(simplified) Chinese character on the screen.
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Access the radical of a Chinese character and retrieve all characters with a specific radical! |
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Chinese History Timeline
View a timeline of Chinese dynasties in this separate
program supplied with CCT6. Click on a dynasty to the events that took place during that
period below.
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| Chinese Language Primer Program |
This additional program includes information on:
- Basic Stroke Types
- Stroke Order Rules
- Character Architecture
- Pinyin Pronunciation
- Pinyin Tone Chart
| 96 Page User Manual |
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