Hanping Chinese Dictionary

4.7
10K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Teen
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About this app

Look up Mandarin Chinese words offline using English, Pinyin or Chinese characters (Hanzi) in a clean, intuitive, yet powerful interface.

Hi, my name is Mark. I've been building the Hanping Chinese apps full-time since 2009 as an independent app developer. This is the old free version (blue icon) of my paid app Hanping Pro (green icon). Purchasing the Pro version helps to support my work and is greatly appreciated. Please note, the Pro version also includes some optional in-app products that are only unlockable with additional purchases.

Main features:

★ Chinese handwriting recognition
★ Hanzi stroke animations (463 free, 376 more available in Pro version and a further 8,735 via in-app purchase)
Audio pronunciation by a native speaker
Homescreen Widgets
Soundboard for practising all single-syllable sounds
★ Over 5,000 example sentences covering over 5,000 different words (English translation available in Pro version only)
★ Word lists: HSK Exam, YCT Exam, Idioms (Chengyu) etc

Cantonese learners: We have a separate app for that: Hanping Cantonese Dictionary

Other features:

Pinyin or Zhuyin (Bopomofo) pronunciation
Simplified and Traditional characters
★ One-tap translation of sentences (if Google Translate app installed). Translation can be stored with starred words
★ Voice recognition
★ Quickly display word in Skritter, Google Translate etc
★ Import/Export vocabulary to/from text files (variety of formats supported)
★ Vertical Zhuyin
★ Works entirely offline!
★ Quick Settings Tile to toggle clipboard monitoring on/off
No ads!

What to expect from the Pro version:

AnkiDroid Flashcards support (bulk export as well as auto-export when a Chinese word is starred/tagged) for studying using Anki flashcards (spaced repetition system)
Backup/Restore starred/tagged Chinese words, notes and history
★ Over 7,000 example sentence translations
★ 376 additional Hanzi Stroke Animations (839 total) - single-character headwords auto-animate. For multi-character headwords, use long-press
★ New History screen grouping items by date. If you prefer the old history style, then you can revert in the Settings screen
★ Stars and custom tags now also show in search results and word popups
★ Support for HSK 3.0 (as well as 2.0) and the ability to import predefined lists as custom tags. For example, this gives you more control over what, if any, HSK tags show next to each headword

The following are not included, but are available via in-app purchase (additional cost):

🔒 8,735 Hanzi stroke animations (in-app purchase at extra cost)
🔒 The superb ABC Chinese-English dictionary with lots of grammar and example sentences (in-app purchase at extra cost)
🔒 English-headword ABC English-Chinese dictionaries (in-app purchase at extra cost)
🔒 Multi-syllable audio of HSK 2.0 (levels 2-5) multi-syllable words by native speaker. Note, this unlocks tone pairs in the Soundboard screen (in-app purchase at extra cost)
🔒 Multi-syllable audio of HSK 2.0 (level 6) multi-syllable words by native speaker (in-app purchase at extra cost)

Please report any bugs or suggestions to me via e-mail. Most emails I respond to within 12 hours (often 1 hour, sometimes 1 minute!).

Permissions are explained in our website FAQ: https://hanpingchinese.com/faq/#permissions-dict
Updated on
Feb 29, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.7
9.38K reviews
A Google user
January 27, 2020
Fantasic app for quickly translating Mandarin! I love how flexible the search is on this app, I can search for pinyin and English from the same place and get really fast accurate results. I can even draw a character to search for a chinese word, which I imagine was a feat from the developers end. The only thing I wish this had was a slightly larger vocabulary, every once in a while I search for an archiac word and it doesnt find anything.
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Hanping
January 28, 2020
Thank you for your review and kind words. The Pro version has the option to buy an add-on dictionary that contains over 200,000 words.
Herb Ray
December 31, 2022
This app is just what I was looking for. I'm perfectly happy using the 注音符號 keyboard that's built in to Android, but what about the times when I don't know the pronunciation of the character? Simple: I use the Hanping Chinese Dictionary pad to draw the character and, voila, I have the character's pronunciation and definition. I also really appreciate that this app lets me work in the traditional characters, rather than the simplified Orwellian Newspeak characters.
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Hanping
January 1, 2023
Thank you so much for your review, and Happy New Year!
Jack Awinda
February 13, 2024
Thumbs up; there's no trace of trying to make this a language learning slash dictionary app. It's a dictionary - full stop. The interface is good. I love the stroke orders (though strangely they don't show for all the hàn zì; particularly traditional ones, but it's still fine). I love how it can display traditional & simplified characters side by side. How about including Guăngdōnghùa pronunciations?
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Hanping
February 14, 2024
Thank you for your review Jack. Have you tried the home screen widget for flashcards? Kind regards, Mark

What's new

• Fixed some external links

Note: Check out the Pro version which have been completely rewritten and vastly improved!