This approach can help the users to learn and master the Chinese language in a more effective manner. Frontline teachers, dictionary compilers and learning materials designers can also benefit from this platform for curriculum design and teaching materials development. Highlighted features of the platform: - input of Chinese characters with photo-taking and OCR - use of Chinese language corpus (big data) - basic lexical information: parts-of-speech, stroke numbers, radical, display of the order of strokes - usage information of words: usage frequency, verb-noun collocation, classifier-noun collocation - other information: correspondence of vocabulary in South Asian languages (Urdu, Nepali, Hindi)