Hanyu Chinese Course Companion
Language Dynamics Incorporated Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Hanyu Chinese Course Companion is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Language Dynamics Incorporated. Rated 5.0/5 from 1 ratings. Requires iOS 16.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 1 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 425 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 27
- 2026 · v1.1.1
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About Hanyu Chinese Course Companion
This app is designed for students taking a 1st- or 2nd-semester Chinese university course and contains an expansive dictionary and character reference which covers all words appearing in the predominant textbook series such as HSK 1-4 or Integrated Chinese 1-2 4th edition. Features include: • Offline Chinese--English dictionary searchable by drawing input, pinyin, English, or Simplified Chinese (keyboard or copy/paste) • Searchable standard vocabulary with words covering beginner to intermediate study of Chinese, including all words from the major textbook series such as HSK 1-4 and Integrated Chinese 1-2 • Tap-to-play vocab audio with high quality recordings by male and female native speakers • Original dialogues featuring real life situations of Chinese students in China, offering cultural perspective and reinforcement of each lesson's vocabulary I have lots of ideas for features to add and if the app does well, I will be able to spend more time on them. Uses the standard Apple End User License Agreement which can be found at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.1.1 · Updated September 27, 2026
I've added some tools that I found useful while spending this summer 2026 traveling around China and studying Mandarin quite intensively--often for several hours per day and taking online tutoring lessons. While living there, getting around, and interacting with people, I found myself often needing to A) identify a character by drawing it, to B) translate a specific english word, and to C) identify a word by the sound I heard. Also for studying, I needed to lookup character stroke orders. There are many helpful resources online and on iPhone which can helped me solve these tasks, but I wanted them all offline and in one place. There are 3 major changes in Hanyu Chinese Course Companion version 1.1.0: 1) I have added a dictionary, which is independent from the lesson vocabulary. The dictionary (CCE-DICT) is open source and publicly available. It's used in many of the popular Chinese study tools available online. Now you can use the app to look up words that aren't in your textbook. I also baked it directly into the app, so it is super fast and works offline. Keyboard matches de-toned pinyin, english, or Chinese keyboard/text input. 2) I added drawing input, and you can find it by tapping on the pencil next to the Dictionary search bar. As you draw on the canvas, the five or so highest matches show on the right. Tapping a match will add it to the search string, so you can look up full words by drawing the characters. Switching back to keyboard input by tapping the keyboard icon next to the search bar will preserve your entered characters. This also runs entirely on the device, no connection required. 3) Free, no subscription required. Right now the app is pretty good. It looks nice and replaces lots of different tools. But I'm not done with it and there are many features I am still working on. So this is a sort of preview--highly functional but a bit rough on the edges. Until I have the time to finish it, I hope you will find it useful in some way on your Chinese language learning journey. -Eric
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