Hanping Chinese Dictionary

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About this app

I've been building Hanping Chinese Dictionary for over 17 years. What started as a personal project to help myself learn Chinese has grown into something I'm genuinely proud of. I'm a solo developer, and I pour everything into making this the best offline Chinese dictionary experience possible.

Mandarin learners deserve better tools. That's why I built Hanping—a clean, powerful, yet intuitive dictionary where you can look up words using English, Pinyin, or handwriting. Everything works offline, and I keep adding features that actually matter to learners.

Here's what I've built:

★ Chinese handwriting recognition
★ Audio pronunciation by native speaker
★ Hanzi stroke animations (800+ free, 8,700+ via in-app purchase)
★ Hanzi decompositions showing how characters break down
★ Over 7,500 example sentences with English translations
★ Phonetic groups, HSK word lists, Chengyu idioms
★ Soundboard for practicing tones (and tone pairs, when you purchase native speaker add-on)
★ Widgets, backup/restore, offline search, zero ads

Features via in-app purchase: AnkiDroid Export, Vocab Import/Export, ABC dictionaries, multi-syllable native speaker audio, AI voice recordings for 4 different Mandarin accents (Mainland or Taiwan, Male or Female) covering around 24,000 distinct example sentences.

I respond to emails within 24 hours. Report bugs, share ideas, ask questions—direct access to the person building this.

Not happy? Full refund within 30 days. No questions asked. I don't want your money if you're not amazingly happy.

Cantonese learners? Check out Hanping Cantonese Dictionary.
Powerful yet simple-to-use offline Chinese-English dictionary
Updated on
Oct 11, 2026
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Ratings and reviews

2.94K reviews
Dragon
April 13, 2025
I started with the lite version(no longer exists?) and I find pro to be even more helpful. No subs but there are one time payments for extentions if you want them. The main thing I use the app for is to quickly draw characters I don't know. It has been pretty consistent with most things and even with my awful handwriting can usually guess what it was I wanted to draw.
24 people found this review helpful
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Hanping
April 26, 2025
Thank you for your review. Yes, the Lite version no longer exists because it's much easier for me to maintain and promote a single Mandarin app. Best of luck with your Chinese language-learning progress. Kind regards, Mark
LJH
September 18, 2023
I have this on my Android phone and would LOVE to put it in my iPad but unfortunately it's not available on iOS, which is literally my only complaint. I am a huge fan of Chinese dramas and sometimes the available English translations are just awful. Hanping lets me write out an entire sentence in Chinese characters then translate. It doesn't translate the whole sentence but words and phrases, letting me figure out what's really being said. Love it!! Edit to add the support team is phenomenal.
29 people found this review helpful
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Hanping
December 22, 2025
Hi and thank you for your kind review! Hanping Chinese Dictionary is now available on iOS! Kind regards, Mark support@hanping.app
J. M.
January 23, 2023
Excellent. Allows you to focus on the "word" not the interface . Aethetically pleasing, best character draw recognition module. Connects to other web resources , Ankidroid's SR learning. Widgets for tagging words and phrases. Colorful, idiomatic examples of words/phrases usage . Active improvements. Responsive developer. It's powerful because it's fluid and simple. A short, small tag name on the individual widget itself can be a good idea. A very productive Chinese learning tool.
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Hanping
January 22, 2023
Thanks very much! Best of luck with your Chinese language studies.

What’s new

• Image Reader - pick a photo or screenshot, take a picture, or paste an image, then tap any Chinese word in it to look it up
• Bug fixes and stability improvements