Great for learner's of Chinese (either Chinese kids or foreign language students). It provides short explanations, and when possible compounds and examples. These are all accompanied by pinyin (for the compounds and examples) and zhuyin and traditional for the character (字) itself.

The translations are very useful to either native or fluent English level speakers. But please, do not use it as a Chinese-English (汉英)-dictionary as this is not a word-dictionary.

The bilingual version is slightly dated; This version is based on the 1998 release of the Xinhua Zidian (新华字典), while the Chinese only version is currently available as 11th edition, published in 2011.