The Digital Gateway toHán-Nôm Studies

Digitized collections, OCR, searchable dictionaries and digital tools — one platform for exploring Việt Nam’s written heritage.

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About this hub

Our pilot initiative, the Hán-Nôm Research Hub, features a fully integrated mirror of Columbia University’s Hán-Nôm Sino-Vietnamese Textual Library, as well as a suite of digital tools for textual analysis, including automated OCR, a searchable dictionary platform, manuscript notation, and an interface with the MARKUS and IMMARKUS tools for sinological research.

Digital Archives

Digital Tools

Resources

Learning Center

Featured Content

Hán-Nôm Collection

Hán-Nôm Collection

A vast repository of digitized Hán-Nôm sources from the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation.

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Hán-Nôm Studies Books

Hán-Nôm Studies Books

Browse our curated collection of reference books and scholarly works on Hán-Nôm language and literature.

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Corpus Search

Unified Hán-Nôm Lookup

Search by Hán-Nôm character, Quốc Ngữ reading, or component combination across multiple historical dictionaries simultaneously.

Examples:學國vănhọc口+南

A searchable digital library of Hán-Nôm texts. Read source page images alongside their OCR.

Projects and Tools

DVN Premodern Archives

Explore digitized archival collections from Việt Nam and international partner institutions.

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Hán-Nôm OCR

Advanced OCR for Hán-Nôm with variant-aware models, built for scholarly use.

Date Converter

Convert between lunar, solar and historical reign dates.

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