Hanping Chinese Dictionary - Learn Mandarin easily

If you want to look up Mandarin Chinese words offline using English, Pinyin, or Chinese characters (Hanzi) in a clean, intuitive, yet powerful interface, try the old free version of the Hanping Pro app by independent developer Mark. By purchasing the Pro version, which supports the developer's work, you can enjoy additional features and optional in-app products.

Here are some main features of the app:

- Chinese handwriting recognition

- Hanzi stroke animations (463 free, more available in the Pro version)

- Audio pronunciation by a native speaker

- Homescreen Widgets

- Soundboard for practicing single-syllable sounds

- Example sentences (English translation in Pro version only)

- Word lists: HSK Exam, YCT Exam, Idioms (Chengyu), etc.

For Cantonese learners, there is a separate app called Hanping Cantonese Dictionary.

Other key features include:

- Pinyin or Zhuyin (Bopomofo) pronunciation

- Support for Simplified and Traditional characters

- One-tap translation of sentences

- Voice recognition

- Integration with Skritter, Google Translate, etc.

- Vertical Zhuyin display

- Offline functionality without any ads

You can expect even more from the Pro version, such as:

- AnkiDroid Flashcards support

- Backup/Restore capabilities

- Additional examples sentence translations

- More Hanzi Stroke Animations

- Support for HSK 3.0 and custom tag imports

- Improved history screen and tagging system

Some features like extra Hanzi stroke animations, ABC Chinese-English dictionary, English-Chinese dictionaries, and multi-syllable audio of HSK 2.0 words are available via in-app purchase.

For bug reports or suggestions, contact the developer through email. The developer strives to respond promptly within 12 hours.

User Guide

How to report a dictionary error?

Please note: If there’s is a bug with the functionality of the app please read this instead.

    Dictionary errors (e.g. headword, pronunciation, meaning)

please contact the corresponding dictionary editors directly since they are best suited to evaluating submissions

- CC-CEDICT: On that page, search for the word, then click on the edit icon

- ABC-CE & ABC-EC (Wenlin): Create an account here, if you have not already done so. Then search for the word using the top-right search box and you should see an Edit tab

- CANTODICT: please contact us instead of the Cantodict website, since that website is no longer being maintained

    Missing Chinese headwords

- Hanping Chinese Dictionary (Mandarin): New words should be added at CC-CEDICT

- Hanping Cantonese Dictionary: Please contact us.

How to quickly know whether the app is in Traditional or Simplified mode?

The search box hint starts with 汉字 in Simplified mode, or 漢字 in Traditional mode. Note, regardless of the mode, searching can be done with either Simplified or Traditional characters.

How to view Simplified or Traditional (or both) characters?

In the Nav Drawer: Settings / Chinese Settings tap the first item and select either simplified, simp [trad], traditional, or trad [simp]

Tips

Try searching for long Chinese phrases.

If you enter a long phrase (which is not in the dictionary) then Hanping will break down the phrase into words. This works really well when combined with voice recognition in Chinese mode!

When searching using pinyin, there is no need to enter spaces in between syllables.

However, sometimes its useful to do so. For example, searching for xi an will not include any of the xian results

Navigating dictionary entries (Word Details screen)

Arrow buttons: The up/down arrow buttons at the top-right of the screen are used to navigate through the results (usually the results of a search in the main screen). To return to the search screen you can either click Back through the Word Details screens, or just click the top-left app icon to jump straight to the Search screen

Gestures: Try swiping your finger quickly left or right. This will step through the dictionary. For example, if 你好 (nǐhǎo, hello) is currently showing, then use swipe from the right to show the next dictionary entry 你好吗 (nǐhǎoma, how are you?). This is very useful for finding related words that might not have come up when searching by English (for example, hello would not bring up 你好吗 (nǐhǎoma, how are you?) Swiping your finger quickly up or down will have the same effect as using the up/down arrow buttons (i.e. step through the search results)