Pleco Chinese Dictionary

Pleco Chinese Dictionary

By Pleco Inc.

  • Category: Reference
  • Release Date: 2009-12-17
  • Current Version: 3.2.74
  • Adult Rating: 9+
  • File Size: 84.58 MB
  • Developer: Pleco Inc.
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 11.2
Score: 4.73088
4.73088
From 1,609 Ratings

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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Reviews

  • Super good

    5
    By Socool1098
    Pleco has proved to be really useful with my Chinese homework
  • The only app I need--one request!!

    5
    By dogphase
    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

    5
    By Buuuuuuuhhhhhh
    Exactly as the title says.
  • This app is absolutely the best

    5
    By khwanji
    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.
  • Love this app

    5
    By JC super colon
    Don’t know any other comparable dictionary. Use it daily to learn. The premium version text scanner does not work great but that is a bonus feature I hope they can fix.
  • Must have

    5
    By aiyazenmehuishi
    Pleco is the single best language learning tool I have ever used, after 10 years of Japanese ands 5 in Spanish. It’s not an a exaggeration to say that if it weren’t for Pleco, I wouldn’t bother trying to learn Mandarin. The ease in buying and reviewing multiple dictionaries, drilling into character components and viewing related characters, creating and reviewing flash cards, reading with lookups, I can no longer live without. It’s a tight and beautiful ecosystem that’s extraordinarily functional in a way that most modern apps aren’t. I love you Pleco dev(s). If I had a feature request…. and I’m on one knee here, if y’all ever add a way to get modern AI TTS voices into the reader, my heart and my wallet are both open.
  • Essential tool

    5
    By PPJT77
    Essential app for Chinese learning. Incredible functionality, thoughtful design, very powerful.
  • What are your language goals?

    5
    By dubdub52
    This is for anyone who really wants to learn Chinese. If you are truly interested in mastering a language then usually you cannot rely on one app alone; You need all sorts of learning material, however, this app is so useful that one who takes advantage of the flash cards and dictionaries will be on their way to fluency. I am glad I can review this app again. It is an excellent application. Very efficient, very diverse and super broad with the ability it has and the definitions it has. I'm very pleased and recommend this to anyone. I first used the free version and it was fantastic, now I have all the upgrades and it was worth the cost. Thank you
  • HOLY CRAP THIS APP IS INSANE

    5
    By Chinese-American guy
    NO QUESTIONS ASKED ITS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL
  • Superb!

    5
    By 2463534
    This is by far the best app I’ve ever purchased. Across the board. Thank you for your hard work!

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