East Asian Studies
This guide provides a general introduction to library and information resources for all those studying, teaching and researching on topics relating to China, Japan, Korea and other East Asian regions.
Translation tools
This list is copied from https://www.refseek.com/directory/translation.html
Bing Translator
Free online language translation service powered by Microsoft Machine Translation.Google Translator
Google's free online language translation service. Translates text and web pages.Reverso
Sophisticated translation and word conjugation with audio pronunciations.Systran
Provider of language translation software products and solutions.Free Grammar Checker
Fix misplaced commas, misused words, grammar goofs, and more.
Transliteration tools
What is transliteration and how it differs from translation?
See: https://www.translitteration.com/what-is-transliteration/en
Chinese
- Lexilogos Multilingual Keyboard -- Pinyin conversion with tone marks Type or paste a text in pinyin with numbers and convert them into pinyin with tone marks
- Library of Congress Romantization Tables - Chinese The transliteration talbe is followed by many libraries for cataloguing Chinese items. Containing "Correspondence of Wade-Giles to Pinyin".
Japanese
- Library of Congress Romanization Tables - Japanese This talbe is followed by many libraries for cataloguing Japanese items.
- miwo - App for AI Kuzushiji Recognition The "miwo" app is an app that helps read cursive Japanese script in images. Take a picture of the material with a camera, press a button, and AI will convert the jumbled characters into modern characters.
Korean
- Library of Congress Romanization Tables - Korean This table is followed by many libraries for cataloguing Korean items.
Generic
- CJK code to Unicode Conversion Tool to convert the following CJK codes to Unicode, and vice versa: Chinese GBK, Chinese Big5, Japanese SJIS, Korean KSC and UTF8
- Lexilogos A wide variety of dictionaries as well as useful information about various countries
- ScriptSource ScriptSource is a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world, with detailed information on scripts, characters, languages - and the remaining needs for supporting them in the computing realm. It is sponsored, developed and maintained by SIL International.
- Unicode character charts A convenient online reference for scripts of all languages, including CJK scripts. If you come across strange CJK characters which are not available with standard language input, you can copy and paste from this character database.