chinese links

a collection of links to chinese sites and resources

information

Baidu Baike - Wikipedia equivalent
Qiuwen Baike - mainland Chinese fork of Wikipedia
Sinica CharDB - good for looking up obscure characters as well as alt. forms + pronunciations
Youdao - Chinese-English dictionary, use search operator lj: to find example sentences with a word/phrase

music

Kugou
NetEase Music - some songs are free to listen
QQ Music

news

News.cn - links to regional pages at bottom, english section
People's Daily

portals
NetEase
Sina
Sohu
Tencent

search

Baidu
Sogou - can search wechat and zhihu

social media

Bilibili - video
Douyin - short videos
Huaban - similar to pinterest
Lofter - similar to tumblr
Tieba - forums
Toutiao - news discussion board
WeChat - messaging/blogging/news/payments
Weibo - microblogging
Xiaohongshu - photo-based microblogging
ZCool - similar to behance
Zhihu - q&a discussion

blogging
Juejin - dev bloggers
Sina Blog
Zhihu Zhuanlan

tools

Gitee - similar to Github, also mirrors popular Github repos
QQ Translate

other resources

English-language sites

CC-CEDICT - free Chinese-English dictionary (just extract the file and change the extension to .txt to work with it)
MDBG - online version of CC-CEDICT
Ninchanese - a fun app for learning Chinese
Pinyin.info - all the latest news and info about pinyin
Wiktionary - many detailed entries for Chinese characters and words
Z-Library - 🏴‍☠️ lots of Chinese books as well as English ones