Chinese
Build music prompts for SkyMusic, Haimian and Suno
Find your 喜用神 / 忌神 from your Four Pillars
The pop-culture personality profile for each blood type
Weigh your fate by the 袁天罡 bone-weight method
Cangjie5 code for any character, with radical glyphs
Convert between Mandarin and written Cantonese (嘅、咗、喺、佢) — basic dictionary version.
Estimate mainland China IIT (个人所得税) on salary
Estimate 五险一金 employee + employer monthly contributions
Build an AI agent system prompt — role, tools, workflow, limits
Add (term:weight) emphasis syntax to Chinese AI-image prompts
A searchable bilingual glossary of 40+ AI and LLM terms
Compare Seedream, Qwen-Image, Wan, HunyuanImage, ERNIE-Image, Kling Image and more
Build text-to-image prompts for Jimeng, Wan, Hunyuan and more
Quick-reference prices for Chinese chat, image and video models
Build structured Chinese prompts for DeepSeek, Qwen, Doubao, Kimi and more
Compare Seedance, Kling, Hailuo, Vidu — duration, resolution, access
Build text-to-video prompts for Seedance, Kling, Hailuo, Vidu
Stack guofeng and Chinese-art styles into one AI-image prompt
每日 12 時辰 (two-hour blocks) 宜 / 忌 and 吉凶
Build a step-by-step reasoning prompt in Chinese
A for-fun reading from a single Chinese character
Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-16, Big5, GBK and GB18030 for any character
Guess the character — a collection of classic 字謎
Convert Chinese between Simplified, Traditional, Taiwan and Hong Kong variants — all 8 OpenCC modes.
Live countdown to Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn and more
Format input/output example pairs into a few-shot prompt
Auspicious greetings for New Year, weddings, birthdays and more
Build prompts that generate honest Chinese headlines for any platform
Play 成語接龍 against the tool — chain idioms by their last character
Compare Chinese chat models — price, context, type
Estimate tokens and per-model API cost for DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi and more
Find the Gregorian dates of your Chinese lunar birthday
What's your Chinese name? A meaningful 谐音, by sound or meaning
Hanyu Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Tongyong and Cantonese romanization
Build AI-art negative prompts in Chinese + English
Browse any month with lunar dates, 节气 & 宜忌
Search 唐詩三百首 + 千家詩 for a famous line, poet or title
All readings of a 多音字, with example words
Normalize Chinese prompts — full-width punctuation, spacing, quotes
Common Chinese proverbs and sayings, with meanings
Build a grounded, cited RAG / knowledge-base prompt in Chinese
Convert a Chinese reign date such as 光緒二十三年五月初五 to a Western date, or find every era in use on a Western date
Build prompts to write or polish a Chinese resume / cover letter
Build a Chinese roleplay character card for chat models
Common 近義詞 and 反義詞 for a word — a curated reference
Build a Chinese system prompt / persona — role, rules, boundaries
The four-digit telegraph code (中文電碼) for any Chinese name, in both codebooks — or codes back to characters
Famous 繞口令 with pinyin and the tricky sounds
Type a passage and measure your CPM and accuracy
Flag common Chinese 别字 against a curated reference
Semantic, simplified, traditional and look-alike variants
Common words that contain a given character, with pinyin
Build a Coze (扣子) bot persona prompt
Today’s 宜 / 忌, 沖煞, 建除 and more from the Chinese almanac
Your sun sign and a for-fun horoscope for today
Build structured prompts for DeepSeek V3 (chat) and R1 (reasoning)
Build conversational and persona prompts for Doubao (豆包)
Build short-video script prompts for Douyin (抖音) — hook, structure, CTA
Build product-copy prompts for Taobao/Tmall/JD/PDD
Find an English name by gender, letter and style
Build Chinese writing and office prompts for ERNIE (文心)
The four-corner code (四角號碼) of any Chinese character, what each digit means — or every character with a code
Build agent and tool-calling prompts for Zhipu GLM (智谱)
Draw or look up one of the 100 Guandi oracle lots
The 100 Guanyin lots, with poem, reading and story
Emit MiniMax Hailuo's own camera commands, not a free textarea
Convert romanized Hokkien between Pe̍h-ōe-jī (POJ) and Tâi-lô, with tone marks or tone numbers
Estimate mandatory MPF contributions — 5% each, capped
Ad valorem stamp duty (AVD) on a Hong Kong property purchase
Estimate HK salaries tax with allowances, MPF, progressive vs standard rate
Build text-to-image prompts tuned for Tencent Hunyuan (混元)
Build image-to-video (图生视频) motion prompts
Build text-to-image prompts tuned for ByteDance Jimeng (即梦)
Build long-document prompts for Kimi — summarize, extract, Q&A
Build text-to-video prompts tuned for Kuaishou Kling (可灵)
Reduce your birth date to your life path number
Convert between Mainland Mandarin (普通话), Malaysian Mandarin (马来西亚华语) and Singaporean Mandarin (Singdarin) — with loanwords, particles, and Cantonese-influenced word order.
Turn text into playful 火星文 and back
Look up the traditional 清宮表 — folklore, not medical
The first + last Cangjie radical for any character
Build structured Chinese prompts for Alibaba Qwen (通义千问)
Pinyin, Zhuyin, Cantonese and stroke count for rare characters
Build text-to-video prompts tuned for ByteDance Seedance (即梦)
Check your Tai Sui relationship for the year by Chinese zodiac
Estimate Taiwan individual income tax (綜所稅) — 114 tax year, 2025 income
Estimate 勞保 / 健保 / 勞退 employee monthly deductions
Build text-to-image prompts tuned for Alibaba Wan (通义万相)
Build text-to-video prompts tuned for Shengshu Vidu
Build long-form prompts for WeChat (公众号) articles — angle, structure, tone
Draw or look up one of the 100 Wong Tai Sin oracle lots
Wubi86 code for any character, simple and full
Build prompts for Xiaohongshu (小红书) notes — hook, selling points, tags
Two-part allegorical sayings — setup, punchline and meaning
Draw or look up one of the 100 Yuelao love lots
Build answer prompts for Zhihu (知乎) — stance, evidence, structure
Search 950+ traditional Chinese dream interpretations
Turn su3cl3 back into 你好 — text typed on a Zhuyin keyboard with the input method off
Cast your 紫微斗數 12-palace natal chart
Match two sun signs for a for-fun compatibility score
九个类型的完整排序画像 — 不编侧翼分数,本机计分
九個類型的完整排序剖繪 — 不編側翼分數,本機計分
20 道题测五大人格维度 — 本机计分,答案不上传
20 道題測五大人格向度 — 本機計分,答案不上傳
三字母何倫碼 + 六類興趣分數 — 本機計分,答案不上傳
两条依恋维度的真实分数 — 类型只是把手,本机计分
兩條依戀維度的真實分數 — 類型只是把手,本機計分
四字母类型 + 维度真实分数与边界提示,本机计分
四字母類型 + 維度真實分數與邊界提示,本機計分
See your Chinese in the script of the Qin — and see plainly where no seal form was ever recorded.
四項真實情緒技能的排序剖繪 — 不編造EQ總分,本機計分
四项真实情绪技能的排序画像 — 不编造EQ总分,本机计分
五種被欣賞方式的排序剖繪 — 不發單一標籤,本機計分
五种被欣赏方式的排序画像 — 不发单一标签,本机计分
三字母职业代码 + 六类兴趣分数 — 本机计分,答案不上传
Zhipu AI's free coding plugin, now overshadowed by its GLM Coding Plan
Hangzhou lab shipping MIT-licensed V4 models and a very cheap API
ByteDance's China-first AI assistant, free for daily use with paid power tiers
Moonshot AI's assistant and open-weight K3 model with a 1M-token context
Kuaishou's AI video generator, with native audio, 4K output and an API
A general-purpose agent that returns finished work, now on Manus 2.0
Ad-free Chinese AI search with cited answers and an academic mode
Alibaba Cloud's LLM family, open weights through to the Qwen3.8-Max flagship
Kubernetes cloud that deploys apps from a repo instead of YAML
Free Copilot-style coding assistant from SenseTime's Raccoon family
Chat-based spreadsheet analysis and slide generation from SenseTime
Notion-style Chinese workspace, owned by DingTalk since 2023
01.AI's open bilingual models, frozen since 2024; the paid API closed in 2026
Zhipu's GLM model family, open weights and a Singapore-run API
Mainland and Taiwan telegraph codebooks nearly always give a Hong Kong ID card character the same code below 8000
The four-digit groups under a Chinese name on a Hong Kong identity card are telegraph codes, which the Immigra...
EV
15 Oct
The 3,500 commonest Chinese characters mostly have an exact Mandarin homophone
By Unicode's Unihan 17.0 readings, 89% of the 3,500 first-level characters on mainland China's 2013 standard l...
EV
8 Oct
Neither Chinese punctuation standard requires full-width marks
Mainland China's punctuation standard and Taiwan's handbook measure marks in character cells and never require...
MA
3 Oct
A Simplified-first pinyin library trips over Taiwan's Zhuyin readings
Run the text of Taiwan's primary-school dictionary through pinyin-pro, a widely used pinyin library, and it di...
EV
3 Oct
Mandarin rhymes share a Pingshui rhyme group about half the time
Two level-tone characters that rhyme exactly in Putonghua share a 平水韵 group only about half the time, by ou...
EV
3 Oct
South Korea's limit on hanja in names is an exact sum of three lists
South Korea's schools have a list of 1,800 basic hanja, and its name rules allow 9,389 entries (인명용 한자),...
AM
3 Oct
Xiehouyu are mostly metaphors, and many Mandarin puns miss in Cantonese
外甥打燈籠──照舅 is a pun in Mandarin and not in Cantonese. Taiwan's Ministry of Education dictionary lists 30...
EV
3 Oct
Classical Chinese particles, counted in the Analects and Mencius
About a quarter of the Analects and Mencius is 23 small grammatical words. How often 之, 也, 矣, 焉 and 乎 app...
EV
3 Oct
How to tell the upper line of a Spring Festival couplet from the lower
How to tell the upper line of a spring couplet (春联, 春聯) from the lower, which side each goes on, why the M...
EV
1 Oct
Writing a xiangqi move in Chinese, WXF and ICCS notation
How Chinese chess (象棋) moves such as 炮二平五 are written, why Red and Black number the files differently, w...
EV
1 Oct
How Chinese internet slang is made, and what the annual word lists keep
How Chinese internet slang is built, from yyds and 520 to 内卷 and 躺平, and what China's three annual 网络流...
KE
30 Sep
Chinese measure words ranked by how often they are actually used
How often 个 really fills the measure-word slot in Chinese text, which two dozen classifiers (量词) cover nine...
NA
30 Sep
HSK 3.0 word counts by level, and how far old HSK words carry over
The syllabus the new HSK is tested on lists 11,000 words: 300 for level 1 up to 5,400 by level 6, with levels...
NA
30 Sep
What to call your relatives in Chinese, and why one in five has more than one answer
Of 1,195,740 family relationships up to six steps, about 53% have one standard Chinese term, 20% could be seve...
EV
30 Sep
How many poems are in 300 Tang Poems, and how many Tang poems survive
The Three Hundred Tang Poems holds 320 poems in the editions we counted, and its preface only ever promised "t...
EV
29 Sep
Chinese typing speed in WPM, and why dividing by five gets it wrong
Hong Kong's civil service asks for 15 Chinese characters a minute, which looks tiny beside English speeds only...
KE
29 Sep
The most common Chinese typos are homophones
Most Chinese typos are the right sound and the wrong character, picked from a pinyin keyboard's row of candida...
KE
27 Sep
Who wrote the Zhou Gong dream book, and why copies disagree
No dream book can be traced to the Duke of Zhou. His name most likely came to the genre through a line of Conf...
EV
27 Sep
Do DeepSeek and Qwen need different prompts from ChatGPT
"Avoid adding a system prompt" is the most-repeated rule about prompting Chinese models, and DeepSeek's own cu...
MA
27 Sep
Chinese character riddles, and how to solve them
一口咬掉牛尾巴 — one mouth bites off the ox's tail. Bite the tail off 牛, put 口 underneath, and you have writ...
EV
25 Sep
How many tokens is a Chinese character, and what Chinese AI companies call things
Four Chinese model vendors publish the same ratio in their own documentation: a Chinese character is about 0.6...
MA
25 Sep
What a seal script converter can and cannot do
Seal script got its own Unicode block on 16 September 2026 — 11,328 characters — and a converter will still le...
KE
25 Sep
How to write the amount on a Hong Kong cheque in words
English or Chinese are both accepted, and whichever you write, the words beat the figures. Write HK$10,001 in...
SA
25 Sep
When yi (一) and bu (不) change tone, and why pinyin usually doesn't show it
一 is said yí before a fourth tone and yì before the others; 不 becomes bú only before a fourth tone; and a th...
NA
23 Sep