Chinese zodiac animal: convert your birthday to Chinese lunar calendar birthday and also get your Chinese zodiac animal.
	Chinese English Dictionary: input Chinese in characters or in pin-ying and English and return the other mening in the language
	Animated Chinese characters: to see the order to write strokes of Chinese characters
	Your name in Chinese: Input your given name and get its Chinese translation.
	Chinese character flashcards: cool tool to view how to write Chinese characters at different levels. Need Java plugin on your computer
	Live Chat with friends and penpals: A text chat tool

Chinese, Zhongwén or Hànyu , or Huáwén in pin-ying, is a language (or language family) that forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family of language. According to Guinness World Records 2006, Chinese, with 915 million speakers in the Mandarin dialect alone, is the most commonly spoken language in the world, outnumbering English speakers by 561 million. China is the most populous nation in the world, and about one-fifth of the people in the world speak some form of Chinese as their native language. In general, all varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic.

While Chinese characters are often thought of as overly complex, in fact they are all derived from a couple hundred simple pictographs and ideographs in ways that are usually quite logical and easy to remember. These wen (or zigen) are the true radicals of Chinese as identified by Xu Shen in his classic Shuowen Jiezi nearly 2000 years ago. Xu Shen also devised the bushou, meaning "section headings", to help organize his dictionary into more manageable parts. With minor changes this bushou system has been the foundation of almost all subsequent Chinese dictionaries. Often mistranslated as "radicals", not all of the bushou are true radicals in that some of them can be further broken down into their component wen. Moreover, many of the true radicals are not included in the list of bushou.

The standardized form of spoken Chinese is based on the Beijing dialect, a member of the Mandarin group; it is described in the article Standard Mandarin. Standard Mandarin is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, as well as one of four official languages of Singapore (together with English, Malay, and Tamil). Chinese¡ªde facto, Standard Mandarin¡ªis one of the six official languages of the United Nations (alongside English, Arabic, French, Russian, and Spanish). Spoken in the form of Standard Cantonese, Chinese is one of the official languages of Hong Kong (together with English) and of Macau (together with Portuguese).

Vernacular Chinese, which is most closely based on the Mandarin group, is the standardized written language used by speakers of all Chinese spoken variants. Some other variants, including Cantonese and Minnan, have also developed written forms that correspond more closely to the spoken form of those variants, though these are used predominantly in informal contexts.