Chinese Language Guoxue is a free online Chinese character reference service designed for learners and anyone who needs to look up Chinese writing. Its extensive dictionary covers a broad range of characters and includes the characters found in the Xinhua Dictionary, alongside writing animations and stroke-order guidance for thousands of entries. Users can search by character, pinyin, radical, stroke count, or several coding systems, including Wubi, Cangjie, Zhengma, and Unicode. Search results can provide pronunciation, meanings, explanations, citations, input-method information, character codes, and writing demonstrations.

The site also offers tools and reference materials beyond individual character lookups. These include a pinyin search, radical search, stroke-count search, Kangxi Dictionary, Shuowen Jiezi explanations, lists of compound characters, and collections of traditional and commonly used Chinese characters. By bringing multiple lookup methods and learning resources together, Chinese Language Guoxue serves as a practical online destination for exploring character structure, reading, meaning, and writing conventions.