Hanping Chinese Dictionary

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

Please report any bugs or suggestions to us via e-mail. Most emails we respond to within 12 hours (often 1 hour).

★ Chinese handwriting recognition
★ Chinese/English Voice recognition
★ Audio pronunciation by a native speaker (single-syllable recordings)
★ Over 7k example sentences with English translations covering over 8k different words
★ Hanzi stroke animations (800+ free plus 8,700+ via in-app purchase)
★ Hanzi decompositions (top 10k characters)
★ Over 1,200 phonetic groups covering over 6k characters
★ 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
★ Word lists: HSK Exam, YCT Exam, Idioms (Chengyu) etc
★ Homescreen Widgets
★ Soundboard for practising all single-syllable sounds
★ 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
★ Quickly display word in Skritter, Google Translate etc
★ Vertical Zhuyin
★ Works entirely offline!
★ Quick Settings Tile to quickly read Hanzi stored in Clipboard
★ Backup/Restore starred/tagged Chinese words, notes and history
★ No ads!

The following features are available via in-app purchase:

🔒 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)
🔒 Import/Export vocabulary to/from text files (variety of formats supported)
🔒 8,735 Hanzi stroke animations
🔒 The superb ABC Chinese-English dictionary with lots of grammar and example sentences
🔒 English-headword ABC English-Chinese dictionary
🔒 Multi-syllable audio of HSK 2.0 (levels 2-6) multi-syllable words by native speaker. Note, this unlocks tone pairs in the Soundboard screen
🔒 AI voice recordings for example sentences — 8 Mandarin voices across Hanping (7,550 sentences) and ABC dictionary packs (16,000+ sentences). Each add-on is one voice for one dictionary pack — preview and buy from Add-ons.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you previously purchased Hanping Pro (when it was a paid app), you should be automatically granted access to the first 3 in-app products mentioned above (AnkiDroid, Backup/Restore, Import/Export vocab). If you have not, then please contact us so we can resolve this for you.

If you’re not satisfied, for any reason, within 30 days you get a full refund, period, no questions asked. We don’t want your money if you’re not amazingly happy.

Cantonese learners: We have a separate app dedicated to your needs: Hanping Cantonese Dictionary

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