Hanping Chinese Dictionary

Hanping

In-app purchases

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
★ Backup/Restore starred/tagged Chinese words, notes and history
★ 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)
🔒 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
🔒 AI voice recordings for example sentences — 8 Mandarin voices across Hanping (7,550 sentences) and ABC dictionary packs (16,000+ sentences). Each add-on is one voice for one dictionary pack — preview and buy from Add-ons.

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

Ratings and reviews

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.

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.

Excellent. Allows you to focus on the "word" not the interface . Aethetically pleasing, best character draw recognition module. Connects to other web resources , Ankidroid's SR learning. Widgets for tagging words and phrases. Colorful, idiomatic examples of words/phrases usage . Active improvements. Responsive developer. It's powerful because it's fluid and simple. A short, small tag name on the individual widget itself can be a good idea. A very productive Chinese learning tool.

What’s new

• Vastly improved English search results
• Better English suggestion chips when showing Chinese headword
• More relevant See Also words for Chinese headword
• Show keyboard on app launch
• Fixed History screen scroll state issues
• Fixed retention of handwriting strokes after app backgrounded
• Fixed some billing issues
• Bug fixes and stability improvements