Written Chinese Dictionary
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About Written Chinese Dictionary
The Chinese alphabet is comprised of symbols, also known as characters, that are used to represent each word. At first it seems impossible to master Chinese and its thousands of characters, but the right Chinese dictionary make the journey less painful and more possible.
Being “good at languages” is often a misconception that new learners have. Most people who struggle with learning a language simply haven’t been shown what a good learning process is and how to fit it into their current lifestyle. This is something that we at Written Chinese, who are also Chinese learners ourselves, strive to teach Chinese learners.
This Chinese dictionary toolkit is packed with a wealth of free tools for beginners up through advanced students. It is a must-have app to go along with any Chinese learning course. Here are some of its many great functions:
- Create your own flashcards with one tap
- Watch animations for how to write any Chinese character
- Study the pre-loaded HSK 1-6 vocabulary (this is for earning a certificate in Chinese proficiency)
- Review example sentences to understand how the word works in a sentence
- Break any Chinese character into its radicals with their meanings
- Get free stories from the Easy Reading Chinese Library
- Hear a pronunciation of each word by a native speaker
- Choose to study simplified or traditional characters, Mandarin or Cantonese
- Use all the functions of the Written Chinese Dictionary without relying on an internet connection
Many people are visual learners, which is why so many hit a roadblock when studying Chinese. Many students tell themselves that they just want to speak Chinese, and they don’t bother with the written language. Due to the fact that Mandarin has many words which sound exactly alike (including the tone!), it becomes increasingly difficult to retain new vocabulary as their learning progresses.
Only memorizing the sound of a word will result in missing an opportunity to let your natural learning style store it visually. It will also cut in half your exposure to the language, and make learning slower. This is why, as learners ourselves, we firmly believe in not giving up on learning how to write Chinese.
As the old Chinese proverb goes, “千里之行﹐始于足下 (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step)”.
Start today and begin building your vocabulary.
Happy studying!
Nora, Hollie and all the elves from the Written Chinese Team
Being “good at languages” is often a misconception that new learners have. Most people who struggle with learning a language simply haven’t been shown what a good learning process is and how to fit it into their current lifestyle. This is something that we at Written Chinese, who are also Chinese learners ourselves, strive to teach Chinese learners.
This Chinese dictionary toolkit is packed with a wealth of free tools for beginners up through advanced students. It is a must-have app to go along with any Chinese learning course. Here are some of its many great functions:
- Create your own flashcards with one tap
- Watch animations for how to write any Chinese character
- Study the pre-loaded HSK 1-6 vocabulary (this is for earning a certificate in Chinese proficiency)
- Review example sentences to understand how the word works in a sentence
- Break any Chinese character into its radicals with their meanings
- Get free stories from the Easy Reading Chinese Library
- Hear a pronunciation of each word by a native speaker
- Choose to study simplified or traditional characters, Mandarin or Cantonese
- Use all the functions of the Written Chinese Dictionary without relying on an internet connection
Many people are visual learners, which is why so many hit a roadblock when studying Chinese. Many students tell themselves that they just want to speak Chinese, and they don’t bother with the written language. Due to the fact that Mandarin has many words which sound exactly alike (including the tone!), it becomes increasingly difficult to retain new vocabulary as their learning progresses.
Only memorizing the sound of a word will result in missing an opportunity to let your natural learning style store it visually. It will also cut in half your exposure to the language, and make learning slower. This is why, as learners ourselves, we firmly believe in not giving up on learning how to write Chinese.
As the old Chinese proverb goes, “千里之行﹐始于足下 (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step)”.
Start today and begin building your vocabulary.
Happy studying!
Nora, Hollie and all the elves from the Written Chinese Team
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What are users saying about Written Chinese Dictionary
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It has been helping me a lot for learning Chinese characters. I haven't been using it as often as I did in China but I plan to use it to improve my Chinese. There are many paid features which turn me off but they must be cool. I can however earn coins by using the app. I have noticed one drawback. I cannot find each and every character I come across but there have been regular updates and many improvements. All in all I like this application.
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This is so far the best chinese dictionary for android i can say! Even FREE version is more than enough to have! But if only this dictionary can have settings to choose either spell words faster or slow. Then i will rate 5 stars.
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In the HSK vocabulary section the audio doesn't work, so it's not possible to listen to the pronunciation
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Audio doesn't work for individual words
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All good for mandarin learning. I read somewhere that this app had Cantonese too? Couldn't find it in the settings.
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This is the best I know for learning Chinese
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Robust learning tool.
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Best UI for learning Chinese
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I love it
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Great application. Unfortunately, I need to leave the flash card study section to get to the breakdown of the characters. Also the examples phrases in the dictionary have features that don't seem to work on the flash card section. For example, it is not possible to click on the word to get its translation.
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You lost money yesterday to Pleco. Why? Because your scan feature doesn't work on Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus. So I purchased Pleco's. The other thing is that I emailed you months ago with a question about my iPhone purchase or feature and your team never bothered to return my email...Best to stay away from this app!
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I really like the app but I changed phones and the camera translation won't work. It only shows a white screen.
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I use various apps to prepare for hsk3 but this one is the best: it offers you the character of the day and encourages you to post your homeworks and share your ideas with teachers and other learners, it allows you to choose on the material you want to study/lots of flashcards/ and it gives you the great motivation by setting the goals and rating your performance. Finally, there is the pronunciation, sentnces and stroke order, so all the learners really need! The best app i have discovered so far! Memrise that i used for hsk3 before is very basic in comparison to this one.
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Nice app. However the audio is too slow. Somewhat unnatural. If it would be a tiny bit quicker, would help with learning how it really pronounced in real life.
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I really like this app and it's super helpful but for some reason, the strokes didn't work on my Samsung S8. It fails to download. On my S6, if worked brilliantly. Please fix it. Thank you!
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The character scanning function stopped working, and the app has started to randomly lock. When it works properly, it's an excellent app, but as of right now, it's buggy.
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Spaced repetition, pinyin, strokes for writing chinese characters, pronunciation, reading materials basically everything you need for learning Chinese. This app is very helpful!!
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This is an awesome app, it help me a lot on my Chinese study. Specifically it showed you the stroke for the characters, this is very helpful for you to practice writing Chinese characters. Hope this app will growth more better.
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PLEASE reduce the writing speed of the strokes to around 50% AND add pronouncing of stroke names as in Online ArchChinese Dictionary.
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I have a Oneplus phone and the Strokes Animation doesn't work Actually it's even impossible to download it It's a huge disappointment Please fix it ASAP
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The app annoyingly asks for permissions but doesn't say why it needs them. It also doesn't play the audio for the words. Onboarding was just really bad.
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I recommend this up app to an enthusiast who is eager to learn chinese.It contains great details,and this does not concern only begginers, its for all.
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The best Chinese Dictionary App.especially the Story Library. Best experience when online. But the OCR switches the app off sometimes.
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This great App helped me really good completing and learning my HSK 3 knowledge and I am happy my chinese showed and recommended this App to me.
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I really love it, but as samsung j1 ace user my device storage is really limited so I have to uninstall it :(
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The application has been helpful to me since I started to use it Now am familiar with a lot of Chinese vocabularies
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Failed to download and use stroke animation
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so useful, finally an app to help teach me HSK, very intuitive design fit for anyone
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I'm really enjoying the app! Love that I can create my own flashcard list!
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Nice app but sometimes it stops working.
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No need to bring bulky dictionary.
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More ways to memorize with flashcard.
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I love very much for the excellent stroke animation and sentence example
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this is the best app for study chinese, especially to reached HSK! Great!
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I like this apps,it help me to learn chinese characters
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I think it's helpful for doing my yct 4 test
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Great app, helps a lot, especially with vocab and character learning
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Very special app
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OCR function doesn't work completely on Huawei phone
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Audio doesn't work. Did you resolve the issue?