Extremely accurate and highly tolerant of stroke order mistakes. Fullscreen handwriting: use your device's whole screen instead of just a little box.OCR: look up words simply by pointing your device's camera at them, or by tapping on them in a still image.Upgrade ($) adds support for tap-lookups in text, HTML, DOC, DOCX, PDF, and EPUB files. Document Reader: bring in text from the clipboard and tap on words in it to instantly look them up.We also offer add-ons ($) with native-speaker Mandarin recordings and higher-quality Mandarin TTS.

Audio: Hear Mandarin and Cantonese for words and example sentences using iOS' free built-in text-to-speech system.

(note: stroke order diagrams do support traditional characters, but use PRC order)

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.

Alternate Kai/Song/Xing-style Chinese fonts are also available ($).

Gorgeous typography: see it for yourself in our screenshots - we think we're one of the best-looking Chinese dictionaries around.

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.

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.

Powerful merged search: look up words by Chinese characters, Pinyin (spaces / tones optional), or English, with support for wildcards and full-text search.

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. 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). 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. NO SUBSCRIPTIONS we offer additional dictionaries, graded readers, and other features as one-time purchases, but there are absolutely no subscriptions in our app.

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