Jinleyu’s online Chinese dictionary is a free reference website designed to help users look up and learn about Chinese characters. It contains more than 94,000 characters and brings together information associated with major reference works, including the Xinhua Dictionary, Kangxi Dictionary, and Shuowen Jiezi. Users can search by character, pinyin, component, radical, stroke count, or a range of input and reference codes, such as Wubi, Cangjie, Zhengma, Unicode, and four-corner codes.

Entries may provide pronunciation, meanings, explanations, examples, usage, citations, translations, stroke order, writing animations, and historical dictionary references. The site also organizes characters into practical browsing collections, including common and less common characters, polyphonic characters, duplicates, standalone characters, simplified and traditional forms, and characters grouped by pinyin, radical, or stroke count. Additional resources cover idioms, words, synonyms, antonyms, and word formation.

With multiple lookup methods and extensive character data, Jinleyu serves as an accessible study aid for people seeking Chinese-language reference information