Handian is an education and information website with rich and useful content for a wide audience. Founded in 2004, Chinese Dictionary is a free online dictionary with a huge capacity of characters, words, phrases, idioms and other Chinese language forms. The purpose of Han Dian is to introduce Chinese culture, history and language, to provide explanations and services for those who are interested in Chinese learning and research, and to explore the norms and standards for the use of Chinese language and characters.

This is an online version of the Xinhua Dictionary, a major reference of Mandarin Chinese. Users are able to search through Pinyin (the phonetic romanization) or the capitals for the character. Note that at the bottom of the pages, more online tools are available, such as antonym, synonym, idiom, Chinese-Pinyin converter, and Simplified Chinese-Traditional Chinese converter.

Scroll down to 4+ screens of content to see the full collection! Starts in PL1455 call number range.

This website allows users to look for words, kanji and sentences in Japanese and English.

An English-Korean dictionary from NIKL, the group that is in charge of developing the Korean language.

Defines Buddhist terms from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Pali, Sanskrit, and Tibetan. Definitions are in English. Also has indexes, which cover radicals, total strokes, East Asian Romanized readings, terms, texts, persons, temples, schools, places, and names (of gods, demons, bodhisattvas, etc). Contains external links to other resources.

A dictionary-database of research in East Asian pre-modern texts, from Zhou dynasty materials to nineteenth-century writings in China, Korea and Japan, including information on Chinese terminology derived from Confucianism, Daoism, secular literature, poetry, and historical works. Requires an account for full access.

Includes dictionaries, colonial maps, gazetteers, images, Statistical Abstracts, and gramophone recordings (and more) dating back to the 19th century.