WantWords: The Reverse Dictionary 165

In our daily lives, have we often found ourselves wanting to express a certain meaning but stumbling awkwardly for a long time without being able to come up with the appropriate idiom or word? The reverse dictionaryWantWordsis built precisely to address this need. All you have to do is enter the meaning you want to convey, and it will match you with the corresponding words/idioms. Compared to the dictionary lookup methods we are familiar with, this is indeed a reverse approach.

The reverse dictionary WantWords (formerly: WantCiWang) is the only reverse dictionary system that supports both Chinese and Chinese-English cross-language queries. WantWords is powered by state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and natural language processing algorithms, and is developed by the Tsinghua University Natural Language Processing Laboratory. It allows you to search for words by describing their meaning. The search results support filtering by part of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.), rhymes, stroke count, and other criteria.

The reverse dictionary WantWords offers four query modes: Chinese, Chinese-English, English, and En-Zh. You can describe a concept in English to find the corresponding Chinese vocabulary, or describe it in Chinese to find the corresponding English vocabulary.