About Pleco Chinese Dictionary
Pleco is the ultimate Chinese learning companion - an integrated Chinese English dictionary / document reader / flashcard system with fullscreen handwriting input and live camera-based character lookups, from a company...
Pleco is the ultimate Chinese learning companion - an integrated Chinese English dictionary / document reader / flashcard system with fullscreen handwriting input and live camera-based character lookups, from a company with 17 years' experience making mobile Chinese learning software.
Major features: ($ = paid add-on)
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Great dictionaries: the free app comes with two dictionaries - CC-CEDICT and our in-house PLC dictionary - which together cover 130,000 Chinese words and include 20,000 example sentences with Pinyin. We offer 8 more free dictionaries as optional downloads, including a 22,000-entry Cantonese-English dictionary, and 19 other great dictionaries are available as paid upgrades. ($)
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Handwriting input: lookup unknown characters by drawing them, with a best-in-class recognition engine. (basic version free, enhanced version $)
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Live Optical Character Recognizer (OCR): look up Chinese words in the dictionary simply by pointing your device's camera at them, or by scrolling around a still image. ($)
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Screen Reader/OCR: instantly tap-lookup Chinese words in other apps through a floating interface; works on Android 4.1 and later. (reader free, OCR $)
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Flashcard System: create a card from any dictionary entry with a single button tap, import premade word lists, use advanced techniques like SRS (spaced repetition), and study in a variety of modes including fill-in-the-blanks and tone drills. (simple version free, full-featured $)
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Audio Pronunciation: instantly hear male + female native-speaker audio for Chinese dictionary headwords; recordings available for over 34,000 words. (stitched-syllable free, multi-syllable $) Or listen to example sentences with text-to-speech (system TTS free, enhanced $).
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Powerful search: look up words by Chinese characters, Pinyin (spaces/tones optional), or a combination, with support for wildcards and full-text search.
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Cross-referencing: tap on any Chinese character / word in any dictionary entry to bring up its definition.
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Stroke Order Diagrams: animations showing you how to draw each Chinese character; 500 in free app, 28,000 in paid add-on.
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Voice Recognition: look up words by speaking them into your device's microphone.
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Document Reader: open a Chinese-language text or PDF file and look up unknown words in the dictionary simply by tapping on them. ($) You can also look up characters on web pages through "Share" and in other documents through the clipboard. (free)
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PRC- and Taiwan-friendly: supports traditional and simplified characters (in dictionary definitions, stroke order, search, OCR, and handwriting), and supports Zhuyin (with ruby support) as well as Pinyin for pronunciation display.
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Cantonese: display headwords + perform searches in Jyutping/Yale romanization. We also offer Cantonese dictionary and Cantonese audio add-ons. (some $)
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No ads: we won't even nag you about buying add-ons.
We also offer excellent customer support - send us an email and see for yourself - and an active user community at plecoforums.com.
We've been making Chinese dictionary apps since 2000, and our sales and customer base have been steadily growing for 17 years across four different platforms. We take good care of our longtime users: people who bought a dictionary on a Palm Pilot in 2001 can still use that dictionary on a new Android phone in 2020 without even paying an upgrade fee.
Paid add-ons can be moved to a new device like any other paid app; just open our free app on your new device and they should reactivate.
If you already own Pleco on another OS, see pleco.com/android for migration options.
This app uses Accessibility services. (for our Screen Reader feature, which helps users to get by in Chinese-speaking regions without knowing Chinese)
Twitter/Facebook: plecosoft
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Pleco Chinese Dictionary since it was posted on our website on 2013-08-22 15:43:10.
The latest version is 3.2.94 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 20:27:10. See below the changes in each version.
Pleco Chinese Dictionary version 3.2.94
Updated At: 2024-04-02
Changes: Experimental fix for some issues users have been having with accessing Android system TTS
Pleco Chinese Dictionary version 3.2.93
Updated At: 2024-01-19
Changes: Minor update with data file updates for CC-CEDICT and our embedded Chinese font files, plus support for adaptive icons and a few bug fixes.
Pleco Chinese Dictionary version 3.2.92
Updated At: 2024-01-05
Changes: Policy compliance update
Pleco Chinese Dictionary version 3.2.91
Updated At: 2023-07-28
Changes: Bug fixes.
Pleco Chinese Dictionary version 3.2.90
Updated At: 2023-05-01
Changes: - Rewrote layout code for screen reader/OCR to hopefully find the edges of the screen more reliably; this includes a new checkbox on Android 9/10 to manually tell Pleco if the navigation bar is on the left
- Hid screen reader notification on Android 13 - we're no longer required to show one, and it had gotten pretty useless since we're also no longer allowed to close the notification shade when you tap a button
- Stroke order backgrounds now use correct aspect ratio
- Lots of other bug fixes
Pleco Chinese Dictionary version 3.2.86
Updated At: 2022-04-09
Changes: 3.2.85/6:
. Clip Reader + Tablet Screen Reader bug fixes
3.2.84:
. Made Clip Reader 'reload' button always visible to deal with slow clipboard refresh on some devices.
3.2.83:
. Added experimental neural network HWR - enable in Settings / Input Methods / Handwriting.
. Added HSK 3.0 in Import/Export / Premade Cards. (tap "Yes" and you'll see an additional prompt)
. Added min font size for Screen Reader.
. Eliminated erroneous clipboard messages.
. Improved landscape Screen OCR dimensions.
Pleco Chinese Dictionary version 3.2.85
Updated At: 2021-10-08
Changes: 3.2.85:
. Fixed Clip Reader crash on some devices
3.2.84:
. Made Clip Reader 'reload' button always visible to deal with slow clipboard refresh on some devices.
3.2.83:
. Added experimental neural network HWR - enable in Settings / Input Methods / Handwriting.
. Added HSK 3.0 in Import/Export / Premade Cards. (tap "Yes" and you'll see an additional prompt)
. Added min font size for Screen Reader.
. Eliminated erroneous clipboard messages.
. Improved landscape Screen OCR dimensions.
Pleco Chinese Dictionary version 3.2.84
Updated At: 2021-09-30
Changes: 3.2.84:
. Made Clip Reader 'reload' button always visible to deal with slow clipboard refresh on some devices.
3.2.83:
. Added experimental neural network HWR - enable in Settings / Input Methods / Handwriting.
. Added HSK 3.0 in Import/Export / Premade Cards. (tap "Yes" and you'll see an additional prompt)
. Added min font size for Screen Reader.
. Eliminated erroneous clipboard messages.
. Improved landscape Screen OCR dimensions.
. Updated in-app purchase library for more reliable payments.
Pleco Chinese Dictionary version 3.2.83
Updated At: 2021-09-21
Changes: . Added experimental neural network handwriting recognition - enable in Settings / Input Methods / Handwriting.
. Added the option to install HSK 3.0 flashcards in Import/Export / Premade Cards. (tap "Yes" first and you'll see an additional prompt)
. Added minimum font size option for Screen Reader.
. Eliminated erroneous clipboard access messages.
. Improved landscape Screen OCR dimensions.
. Updated in-app purchase library for more reliable payments.
. Many other fixes/tweaks.
Pleco Chinese Dictionary version 3.2.82
Updated At: 2021-09-16
Changes: 3.2.82:
. Removed Facebook/Twitter links from About page in order to comply with Google Play policies
. Fixed crashing bug in New OCR
3.2.81:
. Added option to limit spaced repetition flashcard tests to a specific # of cards. (though we still don't recommend that)
. Bug fixes
Also, see the "Flashcard Exchange" forum at plecoforums.com for an early set of flashcards for the new HSK 3.0 test. (it's unclear when the HSK will actually adopt those lists, which is why we haven't built them in yet)
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