New online tool for Hán-Nôm research

A welcome addition for looking up Hán-Nôm characters is the electronic Tự điển chữ Nôm trích dẫn [Annotated Nôm Dictionary] available at http://www.viethoc.com/hannom/tdnom_beta.php (beta version).

This very useful tool is a Java applet and does require, however, Java 1.5. Instructions, in Vietnamese, are available onsite.

(If you don't already know, another Nôm Lookup Tool can be found here: http://nomfoundation.org/nomdb/lookup.php.)

What's next with chữ Nôm?

The First International Nôm Conference was held in Hà Nội in November 2004. It is the culmination of the efforts over more than a decade in computerizing the Vietnamese chữ Nôm script and getting the first 9,299 chars into the Unicode international character standard, as of version 3.1.