Pleco Chinese Dictionary

🇺🇸 United States
Pleco Inc.  | 
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59/100
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0/100
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App Rating
4.6
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Votes
7.81K
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App Age
16y
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Last Update
Oct 09, 2025
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iAP
$2.99 - 59.99

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Rating
4.63
4.62
+0.2%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
7.7K
280.1K
-97%
App Age
16y 0m
6y 4m
+150%
In-app Purchases Price
$31
$48
-34 %
Update Frequency
61d
43d
+41%
Title Length
24
26
-8%
Subtitle Length
28
28
Description Length
3 834
2 852
+34%
Number of Screenshots
2043
1179
+73 %
Size
113MB
212MB
-47 %

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Title (
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Pleco Chinese Dictionary
Subtitle (
Characters: 28 of 30
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Handwriting, OCR, flashcards
Description (
Characters: 3834 of 4000
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Pleco is the ultimate Chinese learning companion: an integrated dictionary / document reader / flashcard system with fullscreen handwriting input and live OCR, from a company that's been making the world's best mobile Chinese learning apps since 2001. Major features: ($ = paid add-on) • Amazing dictionaries. We offer two free built-in dictionaries: the popular open-source CC-CEDICT, with over 110,000 frequently-updated entries, and our own PLC dictionary, with 125,000 entries, parts of speech, and over 25,000 example sentences (with Pinyin). More than two dozen other dictionaries are available as free and paid ($) add-ons, including licensed titles from well-known publishers like Oxford, Longman, FLTRP, Tuttle, SLPH, and Commercial Press. • Powerful merged search: look up words by Chinese characters, Pinyin (spaces / tones optional), or English, with support for wildcards and full-text search. And no need to tediously flip between all of those dictionaries to find a word - just type in your search term and instantly get a combined, frequency-sorted result list. • Links and cross-references: easily look up character components, break down words into individual characters, look up lists of words containing a particular character, and search across all dictionaries for example sentences containing a word. • Gorgeous typography: see it for yourself in our screenshots - we think we're one of the best-looking Chinese dictionaries around. Alternate Kai/Song/Xing-style Chinese fonts are also available ($). • PRC/HK/Taiwan-friendly: every part of Pleco supports both traditional and simplified, headword readings can be shown in Pinyin and Zhuyin, and some dictionaries even support Cantonese. (note: stroke order diagrams do support traditional characters, but use PRC order) • Audio: Hear Mandarin and Cantonese for words and example sentences using iOS' free built-in text-to-speech system. We also offer add-ons ($) with native-speaker Mandarin recordings and higher-quality Mandarin TTS. • Document Reader: bring in text from the clipboard and tap on words in it to instantly look them up. Upgrade ($) adds support for tap-lookups in text, HTML, DOC, DOCX, PDF, and EPUB files. We also offer graded readings ($). • OCR: look up words simply by pointing your device's camera at them, or by tapping on them in a still image. ($) • Fullscreen handwriting: use your device's whole screen instead of just a little box. Extremely accurate and highly tolerant of stroke order mistakes. (enhanced $) • Flashcards: create a card from any dictionary entry with a single button tap, import premade word lists, use advanced memorization techniques like SRS, and study in a variety of modes including fill-in-the-blanks handwriting and tone drills. ($) • Stroke Order Diagrams: animations showing you how to draw each character; 500 characters for free, 28,000 in paid ($) version. • User dictionaries: create new dictionary entries right on your device as you encounter new words. ($) • No ads. We also offer famously excellent customer support and an active user community at http://www.plecoforums.com. And we're constantly working to make our products better; our sales and customer base have been growing for two decades across 4 different platforms. You can be confident that we'll still be fixing bugs and adding features for years to come. Paid add-ons can be transferred to other devices that link to your iTunes account just like any other paid iTunes content; simply install our free app, open up the "Add-ons" screen, and tap on the "Restore Purchases" button to activate your purchase on each device. Please contact us at support@pleco.com, via the form at http://www.pleco.com/contact.html, or using the in-app "Contact Support" command with any questions - we'll be delighted to hear from you.}
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4.6
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Some Latest Reviews

Andreas.xyz
03 Dec, 2025
5
Om du studerar kinesiska så måste du ha denna app. Det finns enormt mycket funktioner och inställningar. Det är absolut värt att lära sig hur allt fungerar. Rekommenderas!
Céphalopode
24 Nov, 2025
5
The flashcard feature is THE tool that helped me the most reaching fluency in Chinese. This is not only the best Chinese dictionary but also THE best iOS app I've ever used.
phyluis
20 Nov, 2025
5
J’utilise quotidiennement la version gratuite et je trouve que c’est un excellent outils.
JoeUDontKnow
02 Nov, 2025
5
This app is incredible. You can copy and paste entire sentences in either traditional or simplified Chinese. Then you get a breakdown of all the characters along with all of their definitions, along with useful examples that you can even listen to. You can even learn how to write the characters. So amazingly useful and helpful, don't know what I'd do without it!
BenNebBen
02 Nov, 2025
5
Like all Chinese learners, I use this app. But the more I learn and the more advanced I get, the more I realize how many terrific functions and features there are. I highly recommend buying the upgrades. The superior dictionaries, reader function, the flash card app, are all game changers. It’s an absolutely tremendous deal. I’m so grateful to the Pleco team for truly caring about their users, including such a depth of features and customization, and not being greedy and trying to gouge us like almost every language app. Thank you!!!
Truesyter
22 Oct, 2025
5
please, allow this app to be installed on mac (like shirabe jisho is), please please
興味のある方へ
28 Sep, 2025
5
メニューの先にアドオン辞書があって、拡張することで真の力を発揮します。 デフォでは廣東話未対応か〜と思っていたら、よく見りゃちゃんとcantoneseもあるじゃないですか!しかも無料!普通話とのピンイン併記もしっかり対応! 某アプリの改悪にはがっかりですが、乗り換え先が見つかって一安心です。
GeorgeIIIV
24 Sep, 2025
5
Amazingly detailed, yet so simple to use (for people with some proficiency in Chinese)!
GATETO@
20 Sep, 2025
4
Me agrada mucho, ayuda bastante. El único detalle es que no tiene la opción de español. No todos sabemos inglés .

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.62
Voted: 7.81K
App Store Link:
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: Reference, Education
Size: 112MB
iAP: 2.99 - 59.99 $
App Age: 16 years
Release Date: Dec 17, 2009
Last Update: Oct 09, 2025
Version: 3.2.80
Version history
3.2.80
Oct 09, 2025
• Made some refinements to the "New OCR Interface" and "New OCR Algorithm" options in Settings / OCR, in preparation of soon making those the defaults for new users - we encourage everyone to give them a try, we're not planning to take away the old system but we think a lot of people will find this an improvement. • Fixed some bugs and iOS 26 compatibility issues. Also, be sure to check out the new 7th edition of Endymion Wilkinson's "Chinese History: A New Manual" in "Add-ons."
3.2.79
Sep 12, 2025
• Added "New OCR algorithm" option in Settings / OCR if you've turned on "New OCR interface"; this should be a lot more accurate than our old one. (this is *not* the same as the new algorithm we've deployed on some other platforms) • Fixed some bugs, including a crashing bug when attempting to do reader tap-lookups on PDFs with no embedded text data.
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