Pleco Chinese Dictionary

Pleco has become a must-have for students of Chinese. It's a Chinese dictionary plus. You can instantly make flashcards from any words that you look up. It will import and make dictionary-readable any online text. And it includes an optical character reader . Point it at any character and up pops the definition and pronunciation. The free version is great. The very reasonably-priced full version (includes OCR and flashcard-test generator and other features) even better. It's a premier tool for every student of the Chinese language.