Pleco Chinese Dictionary

Handwriting, OCR, flashcards

Published by: Pleco
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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
$29.99
Document Reader
$9.99
Flashcard System
$9.99
Integrate Purchases
$0.00
Professional Bundle
$59.99
Enhanced Handwriting
$9.99
Mandarin Audio (male)
$4.99
Stroke Order Diagrams
$4.99
Optical Character Recognizer
$9.99
A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese
$39.99

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User Rating

4.74 out of 5

1,658 ratings in United States

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Ratings History

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Pleco Chinese Dictionary Reviews

Excellent

H&H Tran on

United States

我有点后悔,没有早发现“鱼”的功能那么齐全。

One of the few remaining useful, free apps

Listen 2 ne on

United States

Thank god for Pleco

Everything about this is right

B. Honeydew, PhD on

United States

Heritage speaker, can’t read or write despite taking Chinese in elementary and college. This app is perfect in almost every way. If you can write characters, you can input what you see, if you need to write something you can say, you can use pinyin to input. I feel like it has helped me have more adult conversations with my parents. Love that it isn’t a subscription. The OCR needs some work, but honestly this app has been life changing for me.

This is the only dictionary for Chinese to ever exist.

g3nies on

United States

No joke. Been using it for years and EVERY Chinese learner should have it on their phone.

Very solid application

binglaplap on

United States

I have been using for over 11 years. I have never seen a better dictionary that offers the same quality with ease of use.

Very Good but can be better

ysu1618 on

United States

I enjoy using it for years. I hope it can be a learning tool as well. I added a few extras such as ChengYu, Proverbs, but they only appear when you searched. If it can automatically show as a daily learner in the notification(level graded), they can greatly extend the value. 期待“每日一词/语”

Super good

Socool1098 on

United States

Pleco has proved to be really useful with my Chinese homework

The only app I need--one request!!

dogphase on

United States

I've tried all of the other Chinese dictionaries and flashcard apps, and this one is the best and most comprehensive. I recommend buying the add-ons, especially the outlier dictionary. Super interesting to see the origins of characters. The prices are fair and one-time, which I really appreciate in a world of subscriptions. One request: please make an instruction manual or something for the settings! There are so many settings and features, which is great, but no explanations of what they do and difficult to find how to use them online. I've been experimenting and realizing how much potential is in the flashcard system, but it's a very high learning curve to utilize it. Otherwise, perfect app don't waste time/money on others!

Best Chinese Dictionary

Buuuuuuuhhhhhh on

United States

Exactly as the title says.

This app is absolutely the best

khwanji on

United States

I’ve studied Chinese for 3 months, and I would consider myself as a beginner. This app helps me a lot on searching vocabulary that I do not know. I like the clipboard reader feature the most. The writing tool allows me to search the word that I do not know how to read it.

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App Info

Category
Reference
Publisher
Pleco
Languages
English
Recent version
3.2.74 (8 months ago )
Released on
Dec 17, 2009 (14 years ago )
Last updated
10 hours ago