Can I print words and meanings?

Unfortunately, there is no support for nicely formatted printing at this time. You may copy/paste content to any Unicode friendly word processor (like MS Word, Notepad etc.) and then print the words/meanings you want. The English Hindi dictionary is continously being improved. You may find printing support available in future.

How to get Hindi to work on computer?

The Hindi text on this site is generated in Unicode (UTF

-8). If you can read the following sentence, then your computer/operating system is unicode compliant and you should not have any problem using this site.

हिन्दी भारत की राष्ट्र भाषा है।

If you cannot view the Hindi sentence above, the following suggestions may be helpful.

How to use the search on this site?

The search box is a powerful way to search dictionary entries. You only need to type in your query in Hindi or in English. There is no need to use any signs like ‘+’ or "AND" to create search strings. If there is a space in your query, then just give space.

The only wild characters you can use are "%" and "_". The sign "%" will match any number of characters. For example, searching for A%pt will match words like abrupt, adept, adopt etc. If you use "_" as a wild character, it will match a single character. For example, searching for a_e will match ale, ace, ape etc.

When you perform a search, then the search system looks for an exact match. If your search matches over ten words, then the results are limited to first ten matches. You should modify your query to reduce the number of matches.

During search, the search engine also looks for words that sound similar to your query. On the result page, it suggests some of the such words. You can click on any of these suggested words to see its meaning. This feature is available only for English queries at this time.

If you wish to know more, please let us know by writing to us.

Using Transliteration to type Hindi

You can use the transliteration facility to type in Hindi. When you open the site, you will be able to type English. The search box looks like in the picture below:

There are three ways to enter Hindi text. Each of the three ways is described in the following sections.