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

Basic Bundle
249,00 kr
Document Reader
89,00 kr
Flashcard System
89,00 kr
Integrate Purchases
0,00 kr
Professional Bundle
499,00 kr
Enhanced Handwriting
89,00 kr
Stroke Order Diagrams
39,00 kr
Mandarin Audio (female)
39,00 kr
Duogongneng Chengyu Cidian
179,00 kr
Optical Character Recognizer
89,00 kr

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User Rating

4.86 out of 5

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The best dictionary app I’ve ever seen

Ishayu on

It’s not even close. You can hand-write anything you see, write English or Chinese, it knows hundreds of thousands of words, it’s almost always correct (I’ve found one mistake in 6 years!), includes slang, figures of speech. It can read a page from a book making it effortless to look up characters in a text you haven’t learned yet. It has speakers. Example sentences for every word. If you have any intention of learning Chinese at all, get it. Now.

By far the best

LarsTaiChi on

This has so many dictionaries to choose from and the best interface put there. Thanks!

I love Pleco

Anne Taiwan on

A must for anyone studying Chinese. If studying characters the strokeorder is definitely worth the money!

An amazing app

Idhrendir on

Pleco is a must-have and offers so many different features in addition to dictionary entries.

Har brugt appen et par dage

Fhjuihtt on

og det virker som en glimrende ordbog med mange definitioner og eksempelsætninger. Ingen reklamer! Desværre er det som standard ikke muligt at finde skriftstegn ved selv at tegne dem, det kræver et tilkøb.

Good but costs money

dragedk on

I Like it but it would be Nice with more free stuff. Line stroke oder. Beside some stuff costs money it’s good but they could reduce the prices a bit.

Pleco

MarcelBdt on

This application has no competition. If you are serious in studying Chinese, it would be stupid not to get it. The idea of the app is that it gives access to a number of dictionaries. Some of these dictionaries are free of charge. However, you will probably want to add one or more paid dictionaries. There is a large number of these, helpful for every level of Chinese. In addition to the dictionaries, there is a good flash card system (which costs some money) and a optical character recogniser system (which also costs money) and a few other helpful add ons. Anyhow, you should definitely try out the free version, which is already quite useful. After trying it out, it is quite likely that later you will want to buy some additional dictionaries and add ons. I did.

Great!

Rettighed on

I love Pleco ! It's necessary to have this app when you're studying Chinese. How ever I think it is really stupid that those who have iPhone don't get everything included as those who has fx. Samsung and has to buy the expensive 'adds on'...

Best app ever

Lykkefalk on

I've been using this app for over 6 years and still using it. No matter what your level is this app is worth downloading. Don't waste time looking for others, this is what you will need.

I love Pleco

Bladselleri on

Pleco is simply 太棒了. It's got everything you need for a Chinese dictionary - easy input, nice example sentences and great handwriting input plus stroke order diagrams (you need to add the last two yourself though). However, the best thing is the flashcard system - it has really helped me practice words and characters in my everyday life and is great on the go. I can highly recommend Pleco to everyone who's learning Chinese.

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App Info

Category
Reference
Publisher
Pleco Inc.
Languages
English
Recent version
3.2.74 (6 months ago )
Released on
Jul 9, 2011 (13 years ago )
Last updated
2 days ago