All searches must be performed using browser's search tool
(Edit -> Find in Page...
(Ctrl+F) in Netscape
Communicator, and
Search -> Find in This Page...
(Ctrl+F) in Mozilla). There
are, however, some tricks to do better searches:
-
Go to the top of the page
(usually Ctrl+Home)
and click the upper part of the page with a mouse to make it
sure that the search starts from the top of the page.
- Chinese (Pinyin) to English
| Find the meaning of Chinese word
míng
exactly |
[ming2] |
| Find Chinese words that start with
míng |
[ming2 |
| Find Chinese words that end with
míng |
ming2] |
| Find Chinese words that contain
míng |
ming2 |
| Find the meaning of Chinese word míngzi
exactly |
[ming2 zi5] |
- English to Chinese
| Find the meaning of English word
paper exactly |
/paper/ |
| Find English words that start with
paper |
/paper |
| Find English words that end with
paper |
paper/ |
| Find English words that contain
paper |
paper |
- Find the meaning of Chinese characters
- Mark chinese characters in one browser window and copy
it into clipboard (usually
Ctrl+c).
- Open the dictionary in an another browser window, launch
the page search tool and paste (usually
Ctrl+v)
the copied text into search box.
(Some browsers like Netscape Navigator 4.7x
doesn't show the pasted text correctly even though the
the search works just fine.)
-
In all cases hit the "Find Next" button several times to find all
possible occurrences of the word.
