Loqu8 - A fresh, new way to understand Chinese and English

iCE Features

Learn Chinese faster with Loqu8 iCE (iNterpret Chinese-English). Download and start reading and understanding popular Chinese websites. Instead of "life like" simulations, you'll be learning real Chinese from Google, Yahoo, BBC, Reuters and Baidu.

  • Understand Chinese immediately with instant English translations. 
  • Listen to words and phrases pronounced in Mandarin Chinese. Follow along in Pinyin or Bopomofo phonetics.
  • Lookup Chinese, Pinyin or English words in the 64,000 word dictionary.
  • Search the web in Chinese without typing any Chinese. Simply point and click.

Get the latest news from China, Hong Kong or Taiwan in Chinese.

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iCE's powerful pop-up window shows:
  • Words and phrases (enlarged for greater legibility)
  • Both simplified and traditional characters
  • Phonetics (Pinyin or Bopomofo)
  • English translation with brief description

With a right-mouse click, the Main Menu offers:

  • Pronounce - pronounce the selected word in Mandarin Chinese. Press Ctrl+S to hear the pronunciation again and again. iCE is a tireless tutor. 
  • Copy - copy only the Chinese characters to the clipboard.
  • Copy Entries - copies the highlighted entry (or entries) including the Chinese characters, phonetics and English translation.
  • Lookup - search the dictionary for words or definitions using Chinese (simplified or traditional), phonetics (Pinyin) or English with wildcards (dic* matches dictionary and other words that start with "dic")
  • Web Searches - without typing Chinese, search popular sites like Baidu, Flickr, Google, Wikipedia and more.

Version 5 Enhancements
The newest version of Loqu8 iCE incorporates a powerful new iNtuition™ engine that dramatically expands support for more applications.

Translate Chinese into English from Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more

  • New! iCE now supports Mozilla Firefox 3 and the Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) with LiveScan and formatted paste
  • New! Highlight mode shows multiple words in one window
  • New! Zoom fonts larger to show details of characters--deal for classrooms
  • New! Build word lists by tagging as favorites
  • Enhanced: Freeze LiveScan window with pin function
  • Enhanced: Chinese/Pinyin-English dictionary expanded to over 70,000 words and phrases

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