HanYou - Chinese Dictionary
with optical recognition
FreeOffers In-App Purchases
5.2.7for iPhone, iPad and more
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About HanYou - Chinese Dictionary
HanYou, your Chinese learning companion. The app you need to become fluent in Mandarin or Cantonese
HanYou is an offline Chinese dictionary, translator and optical recognizer designed to help you read, speak and learn Chinese.
HanYou's dictionary is extensive, fast, and delivers Chinese word details into more than 20 target languages. You can input words in any language, alphabet, or by drawing. In particular, find relevant definitions and Chinese-English translations whether you learn Chinese for fun or prepare for the HSK.
HanYou's powerful offline Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine can recognize more than 13 000 Chinese characters in your pictures or with your device camera.
HanYou helps you improve your Chinese with flashcards. Flashcards are a powerful and enjoyable way to learn new words. Based on your learning statistics, you will be shown everyday a deck of flashcards tailored for you.
HanYou features advanced Chinese text analysis. Paste or write some Chinese text and the text analyzer will break sentences into words and display their pinyins.
Unique social feature: whenever you have trouble with some Chinese, you can always ask a question or post a picture on the HanYou wall. HanYou's users, from beginner to advanced level, will come to help you.
DICTIONARY:
• More than 20 target languages available: English, Japanese, German, French, Hungarian, Thai, Italian, Arabic, Korean and more
• Search Chinese words from in any kind of input: Traditional / Simplified / Pinyins / Jyutping (Cantonese)
• Listen to the Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciation of words and sentences through the "Speak" function
• You can also search the other way and input foreign words in the search bar
• Handwriting Recognition
• Intuitive Radical search
• Search words that either start with / end with / contain the query word
• More than 10 thousands example sentences built from various sources
• Build vocabulary lists of Chinese words (which you can share as files or text in many ways)
OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR):
• A powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine which lets you translate Chinese characters in images
• HanYou recognizes more that 13000 Chinese characters
• HanYou recognizes both Traditional and Simplified characters
• You can recognize Chinese text with your Live Camera or on Still Pictures (from your camera roll)
• Read either horizontal or vertical Chinese text
STUDY WITH FLASHCARDS:
• You can learn words in a fun way with flashcards. Pick up any deck from the pre-built lists or from your own lists and history, then start learning them with flashcards
• Everyday, a new deck is built based on your learning statistics in order to optimise your memorising power
TEXT READER:
• Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, into the text analyzer to get definitions of each word in the text
• Pinyins are also displayed automatically
• Listen to the Chinese text with the "Speak" function
OPEN SAFARI WEB PAGES:
• In Safari, tap the "Share / Export" button to open the web page in HanYou. All Chinese words will be added pinyin and you will be able to tap on each of them to have a popup definition
HANYOU WALL:
• Get help from the user community by sharing pictures on the HanYou Wall
We are very responsive to your feedback and suggestions: feedback.ios@yomiwa.net
HanYou is an offline Chinese dictionary, translator and optical recognizer designed to help you read, speak and learn Chinese.
HanYou's dictionary is extensive, fast, and delivers Chinese word details into more than 20 target languages. You can input words in any language, alphabet, or by drawing. In particular, find relevant definitions and Chinese-English translations whether you learn Chinese for fun or prepare for the HSK.
HanYou's powerful offline Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine can recognize more than 13 000 Chinese characters in your pictures or with your device camera.
HanYou helps you improve your Chinese with flashcards. Flashcards are a powerful and enjoyable way to learn new words. Based on your learning statistics, you will be shown everyday a deck of flashcards tailored for you.
HanYou features advanced Chinese text analysis. Paste or write some Chinese text and the text analyzer will break sentences into words and display their pinyins.
Unique social feature: whenever you have trouble with some Chinese, you can always ask a question or post a picture on the HanYou wall. HanYou's users, from beginner to advanced level, will come to help you.
DICTIONARY:
• More than 20 target languages available: English, Japanese, German, French, Hungarian, Thai, Italian, Arabic, Korean and more
• Search Chinese words from in any kind of input: Traditional / Simplified / Pinyins / Jyutping (Cantonese)
• Listen to the Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciation of words and sentences through the "Speak" function
• You can also search the other way and input foreign words in the search bar
• Handwriting Recognition
• Intuitive Radical search
• Search words that either start with / end with / contain the query word
• More than 10 thousands example sentences built from various sources
• Build vocabulary lists of Chinese words (which you can share as files or text in many ways)
OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR):
• A powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine which lets you translate Chinese characters in images
• HanYou recognizes more that 13000 Chinese characters
• HanYou recognizes both Traditional and Simplified characters
• You can recognize Chinese text with your Live Camera or on Still Pictures (from your camera roll)
• Read either horizontal or vertical Chinese text
STUDY WITH FLASHCARDS:
• You can learn words in a fun way with flashcards. Pick up any deck from the pre-built lists or from your own lists and history, then start learning them with flashcards
• Everyday, a new deck is built based on your learning statistics in order to optimise your memorising power
TEXT READER:
• Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, into the text analyzer to get definitions of each word in the text
• Pinyins are also displayed automatically
• Listen to the Chinese text with the "Speak" function
OPEN SAFARI WEB PAGES:
• In Safari, tap the "Share / Export" button to open the web page in HanYou. All Chinese words will be added pinyin and you will be able to tap on each of them to have a popup definition
HANYOU WALL:
• Get help from the user community by sharing pictures on the HanYou Wall
We are very responsive to your feedback and suggestions: feedback.ios@yomiwa.net
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What's New in the Latest Version 5.2.7
Last updated on Apr 11, 2024
Old Versions
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
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Version History
5.2.7
Apr 11, 2024
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.2.6
Apr 9, 2024
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.2.5
Apr 7, 2024
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.2.4
Feb 22, 2024
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.2.3
Jan 19, 2024
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.2.2
Jan 6, 2024
Happy new year everyone / 新年快乐 / 新年快樂. Shipping a few bug fixes this week to make the app more stable and smooth.
5.2.1
Jul 2, 2023
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.2.0
May 23, 2023
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.8
May 18, 2023
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.7
Oct 27, 2022
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.6
Sep 12, 2022
• Fixed optical recognition crashes
• Stability improvements
• Stability improvements
5.1.5
Sep 1, 2022
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.4
Aug 30, 2022
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
• Chinese news articles titles are now displayed together with their translation in English
• Chinese news articles titles are now displayed together with their translation in English
5.1.3
Jul 14, 2021
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.2
Jun 20, 2021
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.1
Jun 15, 2021
• You can now change the Chinese speaking voice in the app settings
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.0
Jun 14, 2021
• You can now change the Chinese speaking voice in the app settings
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.0.1
Jan 4, 2021
• Various bug fixes and stability improvements
5.0
Jan 2, 2021
• Improved optical character recognition algorithm
• You can now add websites and news articles to your lists (besides words, kanjis and raw text)
• Various bug fixes and stability improvements
• You can now add websites and news articles to your lists (besides words, kanjis and raw text)
• Various bug fixes and stability improvements
4.9.0
Dec 13, 2020
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.8.0
Dec 8, 2020
• You can now add websites and news articles to your lists (besides words, kanjis and raw text)
• Various bug fixes and stability improvements
• Various bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.9
Oct 29, 2020
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.8
Oct 18, 2020
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.7
Oct 8, 2020
• iCloud Sync: you can now choose to synchronise your Lists, Notes, History, and Flashcards statistics across your iOS devices (can be turned on / off in the settings)
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.6
Oct 6, 2020
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
HanYou - Chinese Dictionary FAQ
HanYou - Chinese Dictionary is available in regions other than the following restricted countries:
Finland
HanYou - Chinese Dictionary supports English, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
HanYou - Chinese Dictionary contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
HanYou Full
$24.99
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of HanYou - Chinese Dictionary.
iPhone
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
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