Chinese to PinYin Converter
This page hosts a converter to translate chinese characters (in Unicode, I think) to pinyin. Great for those folks like me who can pronounce (and therefore read Pin Ying) a few words of Mandarin but would be hopelessly lost when attempting to read Chinese symbols.
Note: Windows XP users need to install the far east language support before cut and paste makes any sense.
http://www.lightverse.com/chinesepinyin/
Some chinese character to Pin Yin dictionaries for running locally:
http://dltool.sourceforge.net/
http://www.mandarintools.com/dimsum.html
CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary. A free mostly distributable dictionary.
http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html
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