Hanping Chinese Dictionary

In-app purchases
4.6
2.88K reviews
1L+
Downloads
Content rating
Teen
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About this app

Look up Mandarin Chinese words offline using English, Pinyin or Chinese characters (Hanzi) in a clean, intuitive, yet powerful interface.

Please report any bugs or suggestions to us via e-mail. Most emails we respond to within 12 hours (often 1 hour).

★ Chinese handwriting recognition
★ Chinese/English Voice recognition
Audio pronunciation by a native speaker (single-syllable recordings)
★ Over 7k example sentences with English translations covering over 8k different words
★ Hanzi stroke animations (800+ free plus 8,700+ via in-app purchase)
★ Hanzi decompositions (top 10k characters)
★ Over 1,200 phonetic groups covering over 6k characters
★ History screen grouping items by date. If you prefer the old history style, then you can revert in the Settings screen
★ Stars and custom tags now also show in search results and word popups
★ Support for HSK 3.0 (as well as 2.0) and the ability to import predefined lists as custom tags. For example, this gives you more control over what, if any, HSK tags show next to each headword
★ Word lists: HSK Exam, YCT Exam, Idioms (Chengyu) etc
Homescreen Widgets
Soundboard for practising all single-syllable sounds
Pinyin or Zhuyin (Bopomofo) pronunciation
Simplified and Traditional characters
★ One-tap translation of sentences (if Google Translate app installed). Translation can be stored with starred words
★ Quickly display word in Skritter, Google Translate etc
★ Vertical Zhuyin
★ Works entirely offline!
★ Quick Settings Tile to quickly read Hanzi stored in Clipboard
No ads!

The following features are available via in-app purchase:

🔒 AnkiDroid Flashcards support (bulk export as well as auto-export when a Chinese word is starred/tagged) for studying using Anki flashcards (spaced repetition system)
🔒 Backup/Restore starred/tagged Chinese words, notes and history
🔒 Import/Export vocabulary to/from text files (variety of formats supported)
🔒 8,735 Hanzi stroke animations
🔒 The superb ABC Chinese-English dictionary with lots of grammar and example sentences
🔒 English-headword ABC English-Chinese dictionary
🔒 Multi-syllable audio of HSK 2.0 (levels 2-6) multi-syllable words by native speaker. Note, this unlocks tone pairs in the Soundboard screen

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you previously purchased Hanping Pro (when it was a paid app), you should be automatically granted access to the first 3 in-app products mentioned above (AnkiDroid, Backup/Restore, Import/Export vocab). If you have not, then please contact us so we can resolve this for you.

If you're not satisfied, for any reason, within 30 days you get a full refund, period, no questions asked. We don't want your money if you're not amazingly happy.

Cantonese learners: We have a separate app dedicated to your needs: Hanping Cantonese Dictionary

Permissions are explained in our website FAQ: https://hanpingchinese.com/faq/#permissions-dict
Updated on
8 Oct 2025

Data safety

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No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
2.69K reviews
Dragon
13 April 2025
I started with the lite version(no longer exists?) and I find pro to be even more helpful. No subs but there are one time payments for extentions if you want them. The main thing I use the app for is to quickly draw characters I don't know. It has been pretty consistent with most things and even with my awful handwriting can usually guess what it was I wanted to draw.
19 people found this review helpful
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Hanping
26 April 2025
Thank you for your review. Yes, the Lite version no longer exists because it's much easier for me to maintain and promote a single Mandarin app. Best of luck with your Chinese language-learning progress. Kind regards, Mark
LJH
18 September 2023
I have this on my Android phone and would LOVE to put it in my iPad but unfortunately it's not available on iOS, which is literally my only complaint. I am a huge fan of Chinese dramas and sometimes the available English translations are just awful. Hanping lets me write out an entire sentence in Chinese characters then translate. It doesn't translate the whole sentence but words and phrases, letting me figure out what's really being said. Love it!! Edit to add the support team is phenomenal.
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Alex
5 October 2025
I wouldn't say the widget looks good and it's not gotten better but design inside app has gotten a face-lift; much better. Active and communicative developer; a chance that ideas/preferences you have might be implemented if useful/popular enough. App is worth testing to see if something fits you. I recommend testing widget; words on home screen that change throughout the day. They can be from an hsk level or your lists of words from a show/game/book/etc.
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Hanping
5 October 2025
Hi Alex, that sounds like a bug. Please email me a screenshot. Kind regards, Mark support@hanping.app

What's new

• Replace sample lists with more comprehensive 'general vocab' lists organized by topic
• Bug fixes