Free Chinese dictionary widgets for your site

Add a Chinese word card, a word of the day or a dictionary search box to your class page, course site or blog. Copy the code and paste it into your page. It’s free, with no signup.

Type a word in Chinese characters. The word card below changes to that word.

Word card

The word, its pinyin, its meanings and its HSK band. Common words also have a button to hear the word, and a link to their short cartoon on the word page. It works for every one of the 119,383 words in the dictionary.

Word of the day

A new everyday word each day, from HSK bands 1 to 3, with its pinyin and meaning. The word changes at midnight UTC.

How to add a widget

  • WordPress: add a Custom HTML block and paste the code.
  • Google Sites: choose Insert, then Embed, then Embed code, and paste the code.
  • Course sites and other website builders: open the HTML or code view of the page and paste the code.

Keep the link under the frame. It shows your visitors where the word comes from, and some site builders show only the link when they remove frames.

The frame shrinks to fit narrow columns and phones. Keep its height.

Widget addresses

Each widget has a fixed address. Put the word in Chinese characters (simplified or traditional) where it says <word>:

  • Word card (480 × 260): https://dengdeng.app/dictionary/embed/word/<word>/
  • Word of the day (480 × 280): https://dengdeng.app/dictionary/embed/word-of-the-day/
  • Search box (480 × 150): https://dengdeng.app/dictionary/embed/search/

The full code for one word card, ready to paste:

<iframe src="https://dengdeng.app/dictionary/embed/word/%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD/" title="你好 (nǐ hǎo) in the Dengdeng Chinese Dictionary" width="480" height="260" style="width:100%;max-width:480px;border:0" loading="lazy"></iframe>
<p><a href="https://dengdeng.app/dictionary/word/%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD/">你好 (nǐ hǎo) – Dengdeng Chinese Dictionary</a></p>

Tools that read oEmbed can also embed a word page link, such as https://dengdeng.app/dictionary/word/%E6%98%A8%E5%A4%A9/. The oEmbed address is https://dengdeng.app/dictionary/oembed?url=<word page URL>.

Privacy

The widgets set no cookies and keep no visitor identifiers. We count views in aggregate, as on the rest of the dictionary. See About.

AI assistants

AI assistants can make this code for you: connect the dictionary’s MCP server and ask for a widget for any word.