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May 1, 2026
Key features
OCR
Look up unknown Chinese words live using your camera, or tap on words in a still image.
Handwriting
Look up words by drawing them on the screen. Very accurate, tolerant of stroke order mistakes.
Dictionaries
Huge and growing collection of licensed dictionary databases, including titles from Oxford, Brill, FLTRP, and many other major publishers.
Audio
Recordings from two different native speakers for 34,000 Mandarin words, with speech synthesizer (for sentences) and Cantonese support as well.
Flashcards
Insanely powerful / customizable system, making it extremely easy to add new flashcards from dictionary entries or import pre-made vocabulary lists.
Document Reader
Look up words in a document simply by tapping on them; supports TXT/EPUB/DOC/PDF files and web pages on iOS, TXT/EPUB/PDF files on Android.
Screen Reader
Android only. Look up Chinese words in any app on your device by tapping a floating button.
Stroke Order
Animated diagrams showing the correct stroke order for approximately 27,000 Chinese characters.
Incredibly Fast
We use a custom-built database engine so fast that it can search and process results from a dozen different dictionaries before you’ve finished lifting your finger off the screen.
25
Years and counting
Built to last.
We’ve been in business for 25 years, and offer free compatibility updates whenever possible; we have users who bought the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary from us for Palm Pilot in 2001 and are still able to use that same purchase on their brand-new iPhone or Samsung Galaxy in 2026 without ever having had to pay an upgrade fee.
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