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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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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.
In-Apps
- Basic Bundle
- $599.00
- Document Reader
- $199.00
- Flashcard System
- $199.00
- Integrate Purchases
- $0.00
- Professional Bundle
- $1,299.00
- Enhanced Handwriting
- $199.00
- Stroke Order Diagrams
- $99.00
- Optical Character Recognizer
- $199.00
- Handwritten Xing Chinese Font
- $99.00
- FLTRP Spanish-Chinese/Chinese-Spanish
- $199.00
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El diccionario perfecto
Con chino no se arma con google translate, y pleco es muucho mejor. Además tiene más q solo el diccionario, por eso la recomiendo e incluso recomiendo pagar el bundle básico. Es casi el único app que no te hace pagar mensual, por lo que lo aprecio mucho. Mejor que skritter :P
Muy útil requiere hablar inglés
La aplicación permite hacer muchas cosas en su versión de pago, sinceramente hace más fácil aprender chino la tengo desde hace años esto me permite mi aventura de aprender chino de manera autodidacta.
Una aplicación súper recomendable!
Baje esta aplicación como apoyo para mis clases de Chino y es de lo mejor! Es fácil de usar, amigable, completa y súper recomendable! 💯
Greatest Chinese Language App/Tool Ever!
During the many years that I have dedicated myself to the study of Chinese language, never before have I found such a useful, user-friendly,vast and complete Foreign language learning application as Pleco is. It is simply amazing with all its features, it’s many useful functions, and the interface which plainly has no rival. It’s true that sometimes it can be pricey, discounts and offers do seldom come, but it’s worthy and I wouldn’t change if for anything else as there’s no competition in the market that stands a chance.
Best dictionary ever!
I am a Chinese learner, and I used lots of methods online to catch up on this language easily. Neither I found a reliable one nor anything was easy to use. Pleco is the best option when you look for a complete dictionary, if that’s your thing. 🥳👏
Love it
I absolutely love pleco! It helped me survive in China many times. It can be a little tricky to learn to use, but that's more related to the fact that Chinese is confusing than anything else.
Never saw an amazing APP like this
I really need to tell this is a great APP that help learn mandarin faster.
Saved my life while living in China
Extremely helpful, easy to use and great way to communicate with new words.
De lo mejor para aprender
Muy completa, practica y sin duda la mejor para salir de dudas.
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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 )
- Also available in
- United States, Singapore, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Thailand, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Italy, Taiwan, Russia, Philippines, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, Netherlands, Brazil, India, South Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Turkey, Sweden, Egypt, New Zealand, Poland, Norway, Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Denmark, Chile, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Czechia, Finland, Peru, Austria, Colombia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Greece, Nigeria, Ireland, Romania, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Ecuador, Belarus, Lebanon, Azerbaijan, Dominican Republic, Kuwait
- Last updated
- 4 days ago