HanBook - Learn Chinese

World's best dictionary for Chinese language reference and learning, covering millions of entries, phrases, examples, usages and more.
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HanBook is an encyclopedic Chinese dictionary, which is the most fun and effective app for beginners to learn Chinese. HanBook is not only an integrated Chinese dictionary, but also a good teacher to help you with Chinese Pinyin, pronunciation, character stroke order, vocabulary and grammar for free. For the essential function of looking up words and phrases, it supports Pinyin, character, handwriting and voice input. Download HanBook, and start to learn Chinese and speak Chinese Mandarin anytime, anywhere!

Key Features:
Millions of entries, the most intelligent entry
• Over 200,000 entries, 95,000 phrases, 112,000 meanings and 237,000 example sentences, 20000 idioms, including 2,000+ most searched words and meanings.
• 100,000 Academic vocabulary on many subjects
• support traditional and simplified characters

Professional and comprehensive
• Usage notes help you produce more natural sounding Chinese Learn synonyms, collocations (words which go together) and expressions.
• Listen to real voice audio for words and example sentences.
• Usage of Special Chinese Words: Include separable words, correlative words and reduplicated words to help to understand how a word is used in expressions by native speakers.

Powerful search

Either a beginner or an advanced learner, you can look up the characters by the easiest way, by Pinyin or strokes, or by drawing, speaking, taking a picture of the words.
By Pinyin
By radical and strokes
By Handwriting lookup unknown characters by drawing them, with a best-in-class recognition engine.
By speaking and Voice Recognition: look up words by speaking them into your device's microphone.
By OCR: look up Chinese words in the dictionary simply by pointing your device's camera at them.

Search autocomplete：displays predictions as you type
Cross-referencing search: tap on any Chinese character/word in HanBook entry, its definition will present.
Unlimited search queries: unlimited access to the latest database with millions of entries, phrases and meanings
Search history help you find recently searched words

Basic Learning Videos
• Follow all 75 Pinyin videos and animations to learn the basic part of Chinese pronunciation，Include initials and finals; four basic tones and a neutral tone. Get reading practice and improve your pronunciation
• With the introduction of Chinese character, you will have a general knowledge of how characters are organized and interconnected. Include the stokes and stoke order; radicals and the character structure.

Professional and scientific AI assessment
Comprehensive Assessment in multi-dimensional manner, supports speech recognition, character writing. After reading or writing, there will be a professional assessment for your pronunciation and handwriting.
• Audio Pronunciation assessment of Pinyin
Include initials, finals and tones analysis, correct Pronunciation method provided, which will help pronounce words in the right tone and understand their contextual meaning
• Handwriting assessment and practice
Write the character on the screen and then there will generate an accurate assessment for your reference. Click any character in the entry page, an animation will show how to write each Chinese character stroke by stroke. It supports traditional and simplified characters, and help you write with animations and in an effective way.

Flashcards Allow You to create your own Wordbooks
Help you create a wordbook from any entry with a single button tap, or by importing words from popular Chinese text books.
Help organize and personalize your favorite entries
Create lists of your favorite entries, and create folders to store them, and keep a track of your growth in Chinese learning.

HanBook is much beyond a simple dictionary! Any feedback or problem encountered, contact us via: [email protected]