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Educational software for operating systems including Mac OS and Windows (and Linux, by special arrangement). A comprehensive tool for beginning students, life-long speakers, and scholars alike. It puts the power of the ABC Dictionary at your fingertips, along with a comprehensive character dictionary, with over 73,000 characters and 200,000 Chinese words and phrases. Instant access to expandable Chinese dictionaries, a full-featured text editor, and unique “flashcard” system, all in one intuitive environment.

• Wenlin opens the gate to Chinese (Introduction and list of features)
• The Wenlin User's Guide (guide.wenlininstitute.org)
  • What is new in version 4.3
  • System requirements
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
• Feedback and reviews

“Wenlin is ‘software for learning Chinese’ in the broadest sense of ‘learning Chinese’: a lifelong engagement with this language and its subtleties. It is an invaluable tool not just for those in the early stages of this process, but also for those conducting advanced research. I believe that the incorporated DeFrancis dictionary is the most complete and accurate Chinese-English dictionary for modern Chinese in any format. It also serves as an index to other valuable reference works and to the Unicode and GB18030 encodings. I use it every day.” — Bill Baxter, Professor of Linguistics and Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan