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About Laowai Chinese Dictionary

Look up Chinese offline. Save useful words, practice them, and understand what you read. Laowai connects a free Chinese-English dictionary with personal word practice, HSK 3.0 courses, and reading with pinyin. Move from finding a word to using it. FREE OFFLINE CHINESE DICTIONARY • Search 124,000+ Chinese-English entries by characters, pinyin, or English. • Understand words in context with 106,000+ example sentences. • Hear pronunciation, explore related words, and check stroke order. • Save useful words and examples for later. TURN YOUR WORDS INTO PRACTICE • Study your own lists, HSK vocabulary, favorites, or themed collections. • Start with short guided rounds, then review words as they become due. • Practice meaning, listening, speaking, tones, sentences, and character writing. • Focus on handwriting when you want a writing-only round. READ CHINESE WITH PINYIN • Import EPUB, TXT, and FB2 books and texts. • See pinyin above words and look up a word or phrase while you read. • Explore dialogues, guided readers, stories, and Chinese classics. • Listen with speech highlighting and adjustable playback speed. FOLLOW HSK 3.0 COURSES • Work through levels 1–4 with vocabulary, grammar, listening, and speaking. • Revisit difficult activities in a shared review round. • Carry word progress between your course and personal practice. KEEP LEARNING THROUGH THE DAY • Review with widgets, Live Activities, and Apple Watch. • Bring forgotten words back sooner and return to lists from study reminders. • Sign in with Apple, Google, or email to sync words, lists, and study progress with laowaiapp.com. • Use optional iCloud sync for lists, texts, reading position, and learning progress. FREE DICTIONARY. OPTIONAL LAOWAI PRO. Dictionary search stays free. Laowai Pro adds unlimited practice, unlimited widgets and Live Activities, and iCloud sync. Prices and purchase terms are shown before you buy. Look up your next word, save it, and start practicing with Laowai. DATA SOURCES Dictionary data is derived from CC-CEDICT under CC BY-SA 4.0. Examples and recorded material include attributed licensed and first-party sources. See Profile > Data Sources for source and license details. Software: Arseniy Dorogin and Dmitry Polyansky Design: Dmitry Polyansky

Ratings & reviews

4.8

11 ratings

5 ★ 91% 4 ★ 0% 3 ★ 9% 2 ★ 0% 1 ★ 0%

What’s new

Version 5.3.23 · Updated November 1, 2026

French and Ukrainian now cover dictionary definitions, examples, grammar explanations, reading and dialogues. Guided HSK remains in English. Dictionary content can update in the background. Downloaded languages reopen faster. Exact Chinese word lookups and search responsiveness while typing have been improved.

App privacy

The developer, Dmytro Polianskyi, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Identifiers: Device ID, User ID
  • Contact Info: Email Address, Name
  • User Content: Photos or Videos, Customer Support, Other User Content

Used for: Analytics, App Functionality

Data Not Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Location: Coarse Location
  • Usage Data: Product Interaction
  • Diagnostics: Crash Data, Other Diagnostic Data

Used for: Analytics, App Functionality

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