萌典

[amhoanna]

Kadri, ta̍kgê --

Ǔ cù'ì tio̍h cit ê -bô?

https://www.moedict.tw/#!%E5%A7%A6%E6%92%9F

I ǔ cit káng "Tionghôa bînkok hiàn", m̌ kò kàibīn siatkè liáu putcí'á cán.

[Abun]

Hey amhoanna,

thanks for sharing, you beat me there I found that one a short while ago, too, and I think I mentioned it to Ah-bin, but due to my thesis I didn't find the time to write a post.

Anyways, although this dictionary is not a new compilation but rather a combination of existing dictionaries (the ones from Taiwan's MoE, except for the european language glosses in the Mandarin part) I think it's really handy for a quick search, especially because there is a smartphone version (at least for Android and iOS).

[Pier]

Hey amhoanna,

thanks for sharing, you beat me there I found that one a short while ago, too, and I think I mentioned it to Ah-bin, but due to my thesis I didn't find the time to write a post.

Anyways, although this dictionary is not a new compilation but rather a combination of existing dictionaries (the ones from Taiwan's MoE, except for the european language glosses in the Mandarin part) I think it's really handy for a quick search, especially because there is a smartphone version (at least for Android and iOS).

May i know the Apps name for iOS smartphone version.
I would like to buy the apps and use it.
Kam-sia

Do you know of any online dictionary or Apps that we can convert Chinese characters or pinyin to POJ ?

[Abun]

May i know the Apps name for iOS smartphone version.
I would like to buy the apps and use it.
Kam-sia

I don't have an iPhone so I can't check right now but a friend of mine found it using the appstore a few days ago. The app's name is 盟典 as well. And at least on Android, it's free.

Do you know of any online dictionary or Apps that we can convert Chinese characters or pinyin to POJ ?

Yep, that's the biggest weak point of the app in my eyes: It can't process searches in any transcription I know. But it's updated pretty often, so I'm hoping that that feature will be added in the future.

As for your question, for Adroid there is a keyboard you can download called TaigiIME, but I only use it because I haven't found anything better yet. You have to write in 注音 (and not even the correct one, though it's still pretty intuitive. For example, you would spell 暗 as a-m3(ㄚㄇ3) instead of the correct am3(ㆰ3), because the extended 注音 letter ㆰ is missing) and then you can choose characters, which you can then convert to Tailo (not POJ, sadly). Also, more often than not I would come across a character (or more often two or three characters combined to a word) not being recognized at all (including such common words as ē-tàng and ē-hiáu), I'm not quite sure if that's because I spelled it wrong (I can only think of spelling ē-hiáu as ㄝㄏㄧㄠ, but due to the weird 注音 system they use, that could mean eh-iau as well (ignoring the tones because you only enter them for single syllables there)) or because the word is missing altogether.
All in all, I would not really recommend this software, but it's kind of the only one I found, so my choice is quite limited.

[Abun]

sry, mispost because I clicked on quote instead of edit ignore please (or tell me how I can delete it if it happens again xD)