5.2.7
2024-04-11
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.2.4
2024-02-22
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.2.1
2023-07-02
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.2.0
2023-05-23
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.8
2023-05-18
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.7
2022-10-27
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.6
2022-09-12
• Fixed optical recognition crashes
• Stability improvements
5.1.5
2022-09-01
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.1.3
2021-07-14
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
5.0.1
2021-01-04
• Various bug fixes and stability improvements
5.0
2021-01-02
• 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
4.9.0
2020-12-13
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.8.0
2020-12-08
• You can now add websites and news articles to your lists (besides words, kanjis and raw text)
• Various bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.9
2020-10-29
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.8
2020-10-18
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.7
2020-10-08
• 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
4.7.6
2020-10-06
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.5
2020-09-25
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.4
2020-09-20
• In the text analyzer, you can now easily make a list of all words in the text
• Split view can now be disabled in the settings
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.3
2020-09-15
• Split view support in dictionary mode
• All your HanYou data can be backup as a file (in addition to iCloud backup which was already available)
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.2
2020-09-07
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.1
2020-08-19
• You can now choose what to display on the hidden face of a flashcard (check out the flashcards settings)
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.7.0
2020-08-11
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.6.9
2020-08-09
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.6.8
2020-07-14
• Added thousands of example sentences
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.6.7
2020-07-06
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
• Minor design changes
4.6.6
2020-07-03
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
• Minor design changes
4.6.3
2020-06-21
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.6.1
2020-06-13
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.6.0
2020-06-08
• You can now change the selection of functionalities in the bottom bar (go to Settings -> Bottom bar modes)
• Speech input is now available in dictionary mode (in addition to keyboard / search by radicals / drawing)
• You can now change the display order of your list, with most recently added words either at the top or bottom
4.5.4
2020-05-30
• From Safari, you can now send a webpage directly to HanYou. Pinyins will be automatically shown and you will be able to tap on each word to see their meaning
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.5.3
2020-05-27
• From Safari, you can now send a webpage directly to HanYou. Pinyins will be automatically shown and you will be able to tap on each word to see their meaning
• Downloads should work better from now on
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.5.2
2020-05-11
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.5.1
2020-05-07
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.4.9
2020-05-06
• You can now display the Cantonese pronunciation (jyutpings) and Cantonese meanings when they are different from the meanings in Mandarin (check out the settings)
• You can now choose to display only the definitions from the most relevant source (check out the settings)
• Bug fixes and stability improvement
4.4.8
2020-04-23
• You can now reorder your lists
• Bug fixes and stability improvement
4.4.6
2020-04-13
• Added HSK lists from level 1 to 6
• Stability improvement
4.4.5
2020-04-10
• Better dictionary search results when looking for words in languages other than Chinese
4.4.4
2020-04-08
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.4.3
2020-04-07
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.4.2
2020-04-05
• Fixed a bug with the reordering capability of the word lists
• You can now select pictures from any of your albums, not just from "Moments"
• Design update of the Today's words section
4.4.1
2020-04-02
• Bug fixes
4.4
2020-03-31
• A new Study mode with Flashcards! This have been requested to us for ages and we finally release it in this update. The functionality is still pretty basic and we hope to improve it with your comments end feedbacks
• You can now reorder words within a list
• Bug fixes
4.3.1
2020-03-12
• Dark Mode support
• More detailed definitions from the Wordnet projects
• Bug fixes
4.3
2020-03-04
• Dark mode support
• Bug fixes
4.2.3
2020-03-02
• Added Thai language localisation
• Bug fixes
4.2.2
2020-02-23
• Bug fixes
4.2.1
2020-02-21
• Improvement of some dictionaries: English, Japanese, Italian, Arabic, Thai, Chinese
• Minor design update
4.2
2020-01-24
• Links in the comments of the HanYou wall are no clickable
• Pictures posted on the HanYou wall can now be imported and analyzed
• Long Chinese text that has been copied outside the app will be automatically copied to Chinese's text analyzer at launch
• In the settings, you can decide to display a confirm message when you tap the "Unfreeze" button. This may be helpful in case of inadvertently.
• Bug fixes
4.1
2019-12-12
***New feature !***
• Today's list: Everyday get a list of meaningful words extracted from daily Chinese news articles. With each word, you can see and read the source article (with the possibility to add pinyins to ease the reading)
4.0.3
2019-11-04
• You can now back up your app data (vocabulary lists, notes, history) and retrieve them on iCloud (check Settings -> Backup in the Yomiwa app)
• Bug fixes
4.0.2
2019-10-27
• Bug fixes
4.0.1
2019-10-25
• Bug fixes
4.0
2019-10-15
• New Translator capability! HanYou can now translate whole Chinese sentences to English using its own offline translation model
• Added images showing the stroke order of each Chinese character
• Various bug fixes
3.8.2
2019-09-24
• Improved design of the example sentences view
• Bug fixes
3.8.1
2019-09-17
• Stability improvements
3.8
2019-09-09
*** Dictionary ***
• Improvement of the dictionary databases. Multiple sources have been added and definitions are now displayed together with their source.
• Text that you have copied outside the app is now automatically looked up when you open the app
• For each word you can see the date of the last time you have encountered this word
• Added a History list: you can now check all the previous entries that you have previously looked up
*** HanYou Wall is back ***
• Various design improvements.
• You can now edit or delete your messages.
*** Others ***
• In the settings you can now increase or decrease the overall font size of the app
3.7
2019-03-07
• Added several target language. HanYou now provides you with definitions of Chinese words in:
English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Indonesian, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch and Vietnamese
• Small design update
• Stability improvements
3.6.4
2019-02-02
• Stability improvements
• Bug fixes
3.6.3
2019-02-01
• Stability improvements
• Bug fixes
3.6.2
2019-01-09
• Stability improvements
• Bug fixes
3.6.1
2019-01-08
• Bug fixes
3.6
2019-01-03
• Added more than 10 000 examples sentences
• You can now input whole sentences in the dictionary search bar: each word of the sentence will be displayed in the results as well as example sentences
• Stability improvements
3.5.1
2018-11-16
• Bug fixes
• Stability improvements
3.5
2018-11-08
• Added several target languages! You can look up definition of Chinese words in: English, German, French and Hungarian.
• Faster launch time
• Stability improvements
3.4.2
2018-10-22
• Stability improvements
• Add Pinyins in Safari! Whenever you are browsing on a web page with Chinese text, tap the "share" button at the bottom and select "HanYou Add Pinyins" to display all pinyins
3.4.1
2018-09-28
• Bug fixes
***Recent Changes***
• Radical Search: You can now find Chinese characters from combinations of their radicals. Combinations can be only partial and there is no need to follow any order
• Improved Chinese Character Recognition
• You can now listen to the pronunciation of words
• Added a history list to see previously looked-up words
• Export pictures directly in HanYou to recognize the Chinese characters inside
• Added search by radicals
• Text Analyzer: Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, in the new text analyzer mode to get pinyins and definitions of each word in the text.
• When you enter Chinese text in the dictionary search bar and no results are found, the text may be decomposed into several words for which definitions are provided
• Better parsing of Chinese text
• You can now add personal notes to word informations (and see all of them in the vocabulary-lists section)
• In the dictionary mode, you can now search words that either start with / end with / contains the query word
• Added more ways to share vocabulary lists
• Recognition of words split across multiple lines
3.4
2018-08-24
• Radical Search: You can now find Chinese characters from combinations of their radicals. Combinations can be only partial and there is no need to follow any order.
***Recent Changes***
• Improved Chinese Character Recognition
• You can now listen to the pronunciation of words
• Added a history list to see previously looked-up words
• Export pictures directly in HanYou to recognize the Chinese characters inside
• Added search by radicals
• Text Analyzer: Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, in the new text analyzer mode to get pinyins and definitions of each word in the text.
• When you enter Chinese text in the dictionary search bar and no results are found, the text may be decomposed into several words for which definitions are provided
• Better parsing of Chinese text
• You can now add personal notes to word informations (and see all of them in the vocabulary-lists section)
• In the dictionary mode, you can now search words that either start with / end with / contains the query word
• Added more ways to share vocabulary lists
• Recognition of words split across multiple lines
3.3.1
2018-08-23
• Bug fixes
***Recent Changes***
• Improved Chinese Character Recognition
• You can now listen to the pronunciation of words
• Added a history list to see previously looked-up words
• Export pictures directly in HanYou to recognize the Chinese characters inside
• Added search by radicals
• Text Analyzer: Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, in the new text analyzer mode to get pinyins and definitions of each word in the text.
• When you enter Chinese text in the dictionary search bar and no results are found, the text may be decomposed into several words for which definitions are provided
• Better parsing of Chinese text
• You can now add personal notes to word informations (and see all of them in the vocabulary-lists section)
• In the dictionary mode, you can now search words that either start with / end with / contains the query word
• More detailed information for each Kanji such as JLPT level, grade, frequency, compounds etc.
• Added more ways to share vocabulary lists
• Recognition of words split across multiple lines
3.3
2018-08-21
• Improved Chinese Character Recognition
***Recent Changes***
• You can now listen to the pronunciation of words
• Added a history list to see previously looked-up words
• Export pictures directly in HanYou to recognize the Chinese characters inside
• Added search by radicals
• Text Analyzer: Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, in the new text analyzer mode to get pinyins and definitions of each word in the text.
• When you enter Chinese text in the dictionary search bar and no results are found, the text may be decomposed into several words for which definitions are provided
• Better parsing of Chinese text
• You can now add personal notes to word informations (and see all of them in the vocabulary-lists section)
• In the dictionary mode, you can now search words that either start with / end with / contains the query word
• More detailed information for each Kanji such as JLPT level, grade, frequency, compounds etc.
• Added more ways to share vocabulary lists
• Recognition of words split across multiple lines
3.2
2018-08-17
• Bug fixes and improvements
***Recent Changes***
• You can now listen to the pronunciation of words
• Added a history list to see previously looked-up words
• Export pictures directly in HanYou to recognize the Chinese characters inside
• Added search by radicals
• Text Analyzer: Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, in the new text analyzer mode to get pinyins and definitions of each word in the text.
• When you enter Chinese text in the dictionary search bar and no results are found, the text may be decomposed into several words for which definitions are provided
• Better parsing of Chinese text
• You can now add personal notes to word informations (and see all of them in the vocabulary-lists section)
• In the dictionary mode, you can now search words that either start with / end with / contains the query word
• More detailed information for each Kanji such as JLPT level, grade, frequency, compounds etc.
• Added more ways to share vocabulary lists
• Recognition of words split across multiple lines
3.1
2018-08-13
• You can now listen to the pronunciation of words
• Added a history list to see previously looked-up words
• Export pictures directly in HanYou to recognize the Chinese characters inside
• Added search by radicals
• Text Analyzer: Paste some text, or import it from the OCR modes, in the new text analyzer mode to get pinyins and definitions of each word in the text.
• When you enter Chinese text in the dictionary search bar and no results are found, the text may be decomposed into several words for which definitions are provided
• Better parsing of Chinese text
• You can now add personal notes to word informations (and see all of them in the vocabulary-lists section)
• In the dictionary mode, you can now search words that either start with / end with / contains the query word
• More detailed information for each Kanji such as JLPT level, grade, frequency, compounds etc.
• Added more ways to share vocabulary lists
• Recognition of words split across multiple lines
3.0.0
2016-12-23
- Added a dictionary mode
- Multiline recognition
- Improved character recognition
- HanYou Wall: share pictures
2.4.3
2015-09-20
- Minor desgin update
- Bug fixes
- Display alternative characters with a long press on a detected character
2.4.1
2015-08-22
- Possibility to choose the default mode when opening the app
- Improvement of the text detection
- Focus problem fixed
- Design update
2.2
2014-12-11
- Fixed focus issues
- Few design changes
- Added back / forward button to navigate through a text line
2.1
2014-11-14
- Bug fixes
2.0
2014-11-04
- Much improved text detection and character recognition
1.1
2014-10-26
- You can now move the detection zone even in real-time mode
- You can disable the translator during real-time in order to take a picture ("Freeze" button) in best conditions
- Few design changes