Wenlin is a text editor designed specially for chinese language learning. That doesn't fully describe its functions though, and the website doesn't explain it well either, so here is a short demo. It has many more features not shown, but that should give you a sense of what it's about. I find it especially useful for note-taking due to the ability to type freely in english (or your preferred language), seamlessly... Source: over 2 years ago

Wenlin works for cut and paste. Just don't let it become a crutch where you're only looking at the Pinyin and not the character. Source: over 2 years ago

When in doubt, use a dictionary: https://en.pons.com/translate. Source: over 1 year ago

I use PONS often, because it gives you multiple definitions, example sentences, a quick overview of the grammatical information you may need and also in my case it also includes a German<->Greek dictionary which sometimes help me understand the meaning better or allows me to find a word in German that I also lack in English. Source: about 2 years ago

Machine translators like google translate (or the superior deepl.com) are good tools to get the gist of a text in a foreign language, but they're not ideal learning tools. I would suggest to use an actual dictionary like leo.org, dict.cc, or pons.com when it comes to word definitions and distinctions between alternatives. Source: over 2 years ago