OCR
Look up unknown Chinese words ‘live’ using your device’s camera, or tap-lookup words in a still image.
Handwriting
Look up words by drawing them on the screen; very accurate and tolerant of stroke order mistakes.
Dictionaries
Huge and growing collection of licensed dictionary databases, including titles from Oxford, Longman, FLTRP, and many other major publishers.
Audio
Recordings from two different native speakers for 34,000 Mandarin words, with speech synthesizer (for sentences) and Cantonese support as well.
Flashcards
Insanely powerful / customizable system, making it extremely easy to add new flashcards from dictionary entries or import pre-made vocabulary lists.
Document Reader
Look up words in a document simply by tapping on them; supports TXT/EPUB/DOC/PDF files and web pages on iOS, TXT/PDF files on Android.
Screen Reader
Android-only; look up Chinese words in any app on your device by tapping on a floating button.
Incredibly Fast
We use a custom-built database engine so fast that it can search and process results from a dozen different dictionaries before you’ve finished lifting your finger off the screen.
Well-Supported
We’ve been in business for 20 years, and offer free compatibility updates whenever possible; we have users who bought the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary from us for Palm Pilot in 2001 and are still able to use that same purchase on their brand-new iPhone or Samsung Galaxy in 2020 without ever having had to pay an upgrade fee.
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Experts rating
5/5
Language level
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
CEFR level
-
HSK level
-
HSKK level
-
YCT level
-
Skill
Graphemic
Translation
Vocabulary
Kind of access
Mixed
Registration required
None
Type
Dictionary
Tool
Keywords
Radicals
Collocations
Bilingual dictionary
OCR
Format
App
Linguistic variant
Standard Chinese
Vehicular language
English
Simplified characters
Young learners
No
For teachers
No
Remarks
It supports handwriting and voice recognition. It has also an OCR function. I contains many add-ons, including flashcards, graded readers, etc., for a fee.
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