Common words

保靖 Bǎojìng See 保靖县 BǎojìngXiàn (Baojing, a county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州 XiāngxīTǔjiāzúMiáozúZìzhìzhōu, Hunan)
南靖 Nánjìng See 南靖县 NánjìngXiàn (Nanjing, a county in Zhangzhou City 漳州市 ZhāngzhōuShì, Fujian)
平靖 píngjìng to suppress rebellion and quell unrest; to bring calm and order to
曲靖 Qǔjìng See 曲靖市 QǔjìngShì (Qujing, prefecture-level city in Yunnan Province 云南省 YúnnánShěng)
李靖 LǐJìng Li Jing (570-649 AD), Tang Dynasty general and purported author of "Duke Li of Wei Answering Emperor Taizong of Tang" 唐太宗李卫公问对 TángTàizōngLǐWèiGōngWènduì, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武经七书 WǔjīngQīshū
永靖 Yǒngjìng See 永靖县 YǒngjìngXiàn (Yongjing, a county in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 临夏回族自治州 LínxiàHuízúZìzhìzhōu, Gansu)
靖乱 jìngluàn to put down a rebellion
靖宇 Jìngyǔ See 靖宇县 JìngyǔXiàn (Jingyu, a county in Baishan City 白山市 BáishānShì, Jilin)
靖安 Jìngān See 靖安县 JìngānXiàn (Jing'an, a county in Yichun City 宜春市 YíchūnShì, Jiangxi)
靖州 Jìngzhōu See 靖州苗族侗族自治县 JìngzhōuMiáozúDòngzúZìzhìxiàn (Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County, in Huaihua City 怀化市 HuáihuàShì, Hunan)

About MyCidian

MyCidian is a free, web-based Chinese-English dictionary designed for native English speakers.

MyCidian is heavily inspired by Jisho.org, my favorite Japanese dictionary website. One of my biggest priorities when designing MyCidian was convenience. I wanted looking up a word to be quick, simple, and actually useful for someone who is learning Chinese.

This project is still ongoing and will only get better. It's free and staying that way. Web only, with no app planned. Ad-free for now; if that ever changes, signing in will remove them.

Some decisions

Recent lookups and your Study List stay in this browser.: MyCidian never receives which words you save, only an anonymous count of star clicks. Your list won't follow you to another device. Clearing site data deletes it, and some browsers, like Safari, may delete it if you don't visit for a while. Export your Study List to keep a copy.
Every alternate form, not a guess: One simplified character can stand for several traditional ones — 发 is both 發 (to send) and 髮 (hair). Picking one to display would look cleaner and lose the distinction.

Where the data comes from

CC-CEDICT: The core dictionary.
Make Me a Hanzi: Stroke order, radicals and character composition.
HSK 3.0 word lists: Proficiency-level browsing, by HSK 3.0 level. A word the 3.0 lists leave out keeps its HSK 2.0 level.
Example sentences: Over 70,000 checked sentences. About 51,000 were written by Qwen3.8-27B running locally; the rest (about 20,000) are older Claude Haiku examples. They were checked by Claude Sonnet, with a native-speaker spot check (94% natural in a 50-sentence sample). A few hundred older, unchecked Haiku examples are still shown where no checked sentence exists.
Claude Haiku: An enrichment pass grouping senses, plus a separate one tagging archaic and literary usage.

Built by Zeb Barrett

Credits

MyCidian is built on several openly licensed datasets. Every one currently in use is credited below, by name, with the licence it ships under.

CC-CEDICT: The core dictionary — headwords, pinyin and English definitions. Source, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Make Me a Hanzi — dictionary data: Character definitions, derived from Unihan and CJKlib. Source, licensed LGPL 3.0.
Make Me a Hanzi — stroke-order graphics: Stroke order animation, radicals and character decomposition, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and PL UKai fonts. Source, licensed under the Arphic Public License.
hanziDB.csv: Character frequency ranking. Source, licensed MIT.
HSK 3.0 word lists: Proficiency-level browsing, compiled from the public HSK 3.0 standard by two open-source projects: complete-hsk-vocabulary and hsk30, both licensed MIT.
wordfreq: Word frequency ranking, used to put the commoner word first when several entries share a meaning. Compiled by Robyn Speer at Luminoso (version 3.1.1). Source, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. MyCidian has changed the data: the frequencies are converted to a rank and matched to CC-CEDICT headwords.
The sources behind wordfreq's Chinese list: Wikipedia; OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018, from the OpenSubtitles project; SUBTLEX-CH, freely available data created by Marc Brysbaert et al. (Cai & Brysbaert, 2010); NewsCrawl 2014 and GlobalVoices news text; Google Books Ngrams 2012; web text from OSCAR; Twitter; and the word list distributed with the Jieba word segmenter.