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
RM129.90
Document Reader
RM49.90
Flashcard System
RM49.90
Kai Chinese Font
RM22.90
Integrate Purchases
RM0.00
Professional Bundle
RM299.90
Enhanced Handwriting
RM49.90
Stroke Order Diagrams
RM22.90
Mandarin Audio (female)
RM22.90
Optical Character Recognizer
RM49.90

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User Rating

4.33 out of 5

167 ratings in Malaysia

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120
4 star
18
3 star
8
2 star
6
1 star
15

Ratings History

Reviews

Thank you

Thong wei qing on

My friend said that this app pleco is quite good so I downloaded it and it was more useful than google translate thanks ya pleco creator Ty pleco creator for this app

Assessment

supper usefull app on

I just to use,so I m not good or better .

*****

Kinkapad on

This is an excellent app. Very capable and very useful colour scheme. Many thanks.

Very good

Arnc on

This app helped me a lot in my Chinese Tq so much

It’s amazing

M4gical unicorn 9 on

It explains everything in detail and it provides colour and the best part it’s free!

Useful and intelligent

Eve Clover on

I recommend for those people who need help on words to use this app!Its really useful and simple😁😄😁😆P.L.E.C.O💛

Really useful and features-packed app!

Syazanie on

This is a good app! Everything is explained! Tones are well coloured, price are not that expensive, UI are stupidly clean and simple! I loved it very much! It’s easy to find words and fyi, characters strokes to unlock all you’d need to buy the pack but it is WORTH IT! Best app ever!

BAD SO BAD

Epic Zhen Hao on

I CANT EVEN TYPE THE WORD I WANT TO

Perfect app

Antimagic on

Hopefully the other add-ons can try it few day. Amazing Orc add-ons.

Great

aafiqhaikal on

This app is amazing but may i suggest something? It would be even better if you put the synonym for each word

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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
6 days ago