trainchinese Dictionary

trainchinese

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About this app

trainchinese will teach you Chinese, with a free and complete dictionary, thousands of vocab lists, example sentences, audio recordings, measure words and character animations – and a powerful flash card system featuring handwriting training. Join thousands of others who've learned Chinese with trainchinese!

★ We're using our very own dictionary, made by bilingual experts in Beijing. It's got 130,000 words and search algorithms that prioritise words that you'll actually want to learn! For example, try searching for "tree" in your existing Chinese dictionary. More than likely you'll see 木 – a character, and not really a vocab word! Search with trainchinese and you'll get 树 ("tree") first and 一棵树 ("a tree") second – now that's useful!

★ Dictionary results include measure words, examples, character animations and even full decompositions so you can see what goes into every character.

★ Partial searches start returning results as soon as you begin typing. If you make a spelling mistake, you'll get suggestions for words you might have meant.

★ Get measure words for thousands of nouns. Tap measure words for full details and access to related searches.

★ trainchinese is great for study, because our words are organised into more than 1,500 word lists covering topics from International Relations to American Football Teams and more. Students of HSK, TOCFL and YCT will feel right at home. Something's missing? We often add new vocabulary lists on request so that everybody can benefit.

★ Whether you're studying the Simplified (mainland China and Singapore) or Traditional (Hong Kong and Taiwan) variants, we've got you covered! Easily switch between them or choose to display both in dictionary results and on flash cards.

★ Create flash cards with audio and animation from dictionary entries. Organise them into lists, and share them with friends (or students).

★ The Spaced Repetition system ensures you'll memorize those words for good.

★ Train however you want: each card is available in four different modes to test different aspects of Chinese study. See Chinese, Pinyin or English and get tested on translation, and even compare your handwriting to a stroke-order animation side-by-side, synchronized!

★ Flash cards are saved on your device and synchronized with trainchinese.com, where you can also train with them and find more great content.

★ Add study notes to your flash cards - they're saved and backed up at trainchinese.com.

Ratings and reviews

it has been the most convenient app for me as a new character learner. it tells you everything. the meaning, the stroke order and also tells you what part of speech it is, even the phrases are translated so well !! the only flaw is that I cant add more than ten cards and practice without premium, but even without premium it's a excellent package.

I find it better than other apps because it is more detailed and its got YouTube videos too where its easy to see how to fluently write the characters. Actually it has character writing animation inbuilt for each character and also practical uses of any Chinese word. Voice quality at pronunciation could be better. It's sort of heavy for my older phone. Still it's the app I use most for chinese.I'm still finding out it's features so when I get used to it, I'll most probably, find it even better.

I use several translation and learning apps. None are 100% accurate 100% of the time. I do like the performance and the results TrainChinese provides. And I feel I learn more every time I use it. Maybe just one tone, or one combo. But any move forward is an improvement!

What’s new

This update adds the ability to review flash cards before training them for the first time!

We're also adding support for the Dutch language, with more languages coming soon.

Thanks for learning with trainchinese!