Chinese Toolbox FREE

Chinese Toolbox FREE is software to help you learn Chinese through reading. It is a Chinese reading assistant with a Chinese reader, an editable character dictionary, and a section for keeping track of your understanding of the characters you’re studying. The more advanced product is Chinese Toolbox READER.

Chinese Toolbox FREE is designed for those with at least some basic knowledge of Chinese characters. For example, you should understand either the pinyin or the zhuyin systems of pronunciation and you should be able to correctly pronounce a character given only its written pronunciation.

Click on any of the links to the left to go to the corresponding section of this guide. Note that you can click on most of the images (screen shots) in this web site to display the full-size images.

This guide was originally written for Chinese Toolbox FREE. Since Chinese Toolbox READER builds on the foundation of CT Free and merely adds additional features, almost everything in this guide applies just as well to Chinese Toolbox READER.

Some sections of this guide were written for an earlier version of Chinese Toolbox FREE. The images (screen shots) may be somewhat different from the current version, but the concepts are the same. When there are differences, a note is made at the beginning of the section.