Pleco Chinese Dictionary
Handwriting, OCR, flashcards
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Description

Pleco is the ultimate Chinese learning companion: an integrated dictionary / document reader / flashcard system with fullscreen handwriting input and live OCR, from a company that's been making the world's best mobile Chinese learning apps since 2001.

Major features: ($ = paid add-on)

• Amazing dictionaries. We offer two free built-in dictionaries: the popular open-source CC-CEDICT, with over 110,000 frequently-updated entries, and our own PLC dictionary, with 125,000 entries, parts of speech, and over 25,000 example sentences (with Pinyin). More than two dozen other dictionaries are available as free and paid ($) add-ons, including licensed titles from well-known publishers like Oxford, Longman, FLTRP, Tuttle, SLPH, and Commercial Press.

• Powerful merged search: look up words by Chinese characters, Pinyin (spaces / tones optional), or English, with support for wildcards and full-text search. And no need to tediously flip between all of those dictionaries to find a word - just type in your search term and instantly get a combined, frequency-sorted result list.

• Links and cross-references: easily look up character components, break down words into individual characters, look up lists of words containing a particular character, and search across all dictionaries for example sentences containing a word.

• Gorgeous typography: see it for yourself in our screenshots - we think we're one of the best-looking Chinese dictionaries around. Alternate Kai/Song/Xing-style Chinese fonts are also available ($).

• PRC/HK/Taiwan-friendly: every part of Pleco supports both traditional and simplified, headword readings can be shown in Pinyin and Zhuyin, and some dictionaries even support Cantonese. (note: stroke order diagrams do support traditional characters, but use PRC order)

• Audio: Hear Mandarin and Cantonese for words and example sentences using iOS' free built-in text-to-speech system. We also offer add-ons ($) with native-speaker Mandarin recordings and higher-quality Mandarin TTS.

• Document Reader: bring in text from the clipboard and tap on words in it to instantly look them up. Upgrade ($) adds support for tap-lookups in text, HTML, DOC, DOCX, PDF, and EPUB files. We also offer graded readings ($).

• OCR: look up words simply by pointing your device's camera at them, or by tapping on them in a still image. ($)

• Fullscreen handwriting: use your device's whole screen instead of just a little box. Extremely accurate and highly tolerant of stroke order mistakes. (enhanced $)

• Flashcards: create a card from any dictionary entry with a single button tap, import premade word lists, use advanced memorization techniques like SRS, and study in a variety of modes including fill-in-the-blanks handwriting and tone drills. ($)

• Stroke Order Diagrams: animations showing you how to draw each character; 500 characters for free, 28,000 in paid ($) version.

• User dictionaries: create new dictionary entries right on your device as you encounter new words. ($)

• No ads.

We also offer famously excellent customer support and an active user community at http://www.plecoforums.com. And we're constantly working to make our products better; our sales and customer base have been growing for two decades across 4 different platforms. You can be confident that we'll still be fixing bugs and adding features for years to come.

Paid add-ons can be transferred to other devices that link to your iTunes account just like any other paid iTunes content; simply install our free app, open up the "Add-ons" screen, and tap on the "Restore Purchases" button to activate your purchase on each device.

Please contact us at [email protected], via the form at http://www.pleco.com/contact.html, or using the in-app "Contact Support" command with any questions - we'll be delighted to hear from you.
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In-Apps

Grand Ricci
69,99 €
Basic Bundle
34,99 €
Document Reader
9,99 €
Flashcard System
9,99 €
Integrate Purchases
0,00 €
Professional Bundle
69,99 €
Enhanced Handwriting
9,99 €
Mandarin Audio (male)
5,99 €
Stroke Order Diagrams
5,99 €
Optical Character Recognizer
9,99 €

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User Rating

4.28 out of 5

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Très bon dictionnaire complet

bitatrois on

Très bon dictionnaire méthodologique

Handige reader !

Wes VH on

Handige reader met heel wat bekende titels ! Deze app laat me toe op een sneller ritme te lezen en woordenschat op te bouwen dan de klassieke boeken :)

Outil très puissant

Shadowted on

Incontestablement indispensable pour qui cherche à traduire le chinois. Dictionnaire très complet, reconnaissance des caractères, exemples nombreux, notes de grammaire, ordre des traits, tout est disponible. Version de base déjà fort étoffée, y ajouter quelques modules payants selon son usage pour un résultat presque parfait

The best Chinese app

xKatyyy on

It's really the best app ever ! Very easy to use and very handy. Definitely a must-have for Chinese learners!!

beste app

silkevds on

gebruik deze elke dag werkt super vlot is duidelijk en zelfs zonder internetverbinding! helpt me dagelijks met studeren en begrijpen vd chinese taal. bedankt!

Makes you wonder how one would learn Chinese without this app

philc on

And keeps on getting better!

Good!

Karim Chaoui on

nice useful app for to use on a daily basis. too bad the prices for the add ons are so high.

Super!

anl26 on

The app you need

The best!

lemo45 on

Just the best Chinese dictionnary there is on the App Store. 10/10 would recommend again.

Best Chinese dictionary out there

mengjiepeng on

Competitors don’t even come close!

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App Info

Category
Reference
Publisher
Pleco Inc.
Languages
English
Recent version
3.2.74 (6 months ago )
Released on
Dec 17, 2009 (14 years ago )
Last updated
2 weeks ago