digchinese.com
Writing
Speaking of Chinese
This site focuses on resources for people who are studying or wish to study Chinese. It is especially useful for those engaged in self study.
Understanding Chinese 2 Ed: A Guide to the Usage of Chinese Characters
Guide to Traditional Chinese Characters including stroke order, examples of words using each character, and pronunciation in Mandarin and Cantonese.
Reading and Writing Chinese Traditional Character Edition: A Guide to the Chinese Writing System
Stroke orders, pinyin, descriptions and definitions of traditional characters (showing the simplified character if it is different). There is also a simplified character version.
Learning Chinese Characters
by Alison Matthews, Laurence Matthews
Aimed at helping students of Chinese learn and remember Chinese characters—including the pronunciation of characters—fast and effectively, Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1 is a systematic study aid to this difficult language.
A Dissertation on the Nature and Character of the Chinese System of Writing
in a letter to John Vaughan, esq.
by Peter S. Du Ponceau, LL.D.,
President of the American Philosophical Society, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the Athenæum of Philadelphia; Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, &c. &c.
To which are subjoined,
A Vocabulary of the Cochinchinese Language,
By Father Joseph Morrone, R. C. Missionary at Saigon,
Wiktionary
Wiktionary contains a chinese character dictionary, including some animated GIFs showing stroke order.
Just go to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ followed by the character, like: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/零
Reading & Writing Chinese: Simplified Character Edition
Stroke orders, pinyin, and descriptions of over 2200 simplified characters and radicals (showing the traditional character if it is different). There is also a traditional character version.
USC Chinese Department Character Animations
Stroke order animations and audio of pronunciation for both simplified and traditional characters
