This Android app contains a huge English Chinese, French Chinese and German Chinese dictionary each containing more than 100 000 entries with text-to-speech support. You can also use Chinese flashcards (HSK, TOCFL and many textbooks' vocabulary premade wordlists available) to practise how to read and write Chinese characters. All features are for FREE.
Chinese dictionary features:
☆ English Chinese dictionary 103 000 entries, based on CC-CEDICT; French Chinese dictionary 123 000 entries, based on CFDICT; German Chinese dictionary 149 000 entries, based on HANDEDICT
☆ search history
☆ text-to-speech for any part of the dictionary entry
☆ choose if the Chinese dictionary should show simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese or both
☆ use English / French / German (automatic conversion of special characters, e.g. searching "chateau" will find "château"), pinyin (with or without tones, no need for spaces), zhuyin or Chinese characters to find the translation
☆ Chinese dictionary searches as you type
☆ Chinese characters colored accordingly to the tones
☆ full support of zhuyin (注音)
☆ speech recognition function (for both English / French / German and Chinese)
☆ Chinese dictionary database can be saved to an external memory card
☆ copy any part of the Chinese dictionary entry to the clipboard
☆ import any word to your Chinese flashcards
☆ highlighting of the searched string in returned entries
☆ automatic detection of the translation (Chinese → English / French / German or English / French / German → Chinese)
☆ supports both landscape and portrait modes
☆ supports both traditional and simplified Chinese, so it is suitable for both mainland China and Taiwan
Chinese flashcards features:
☆ practise writing, reading or nouns' measure words
☆ wordlists for Chinese tests and many Chinese textbooks' vocabulary lists are prepared:
→ HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, 汉语水平考试, 漢語水平考試)
→ TOCFL (Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language)
→ Practical Audio Visual Chinese 2nd Edition
→ Integrated Chinese, Expanded 2nd Edition
→ New Practical Chinese reader Vol 1
→ Practical Chinese Reader
→ Beginner's Chinese
→ Intermediate Chinese
→ Pimsleur Mandarin
→ Schaums' Outlines Chinese Vocabulary
→ Colloquial Chinese
☆ Chinese flashcards can be saved to different categories
☆ if you make a mistake the word will be offered to you more often
☆ if you add a new word from dictionary to your Chinese flashcards it will also be offered more often
☆ supports both traditional and simplified Chinese (if you make a mistake when practising traditional Chinese, it will not affect the simplified Chinese equivalent so you can practise both)
☆ add any word from the Chinese dictionary to your Chinese flashcards
☆ add your own custom Chinese flashcards
☆ convenient editing of categories and Chinese flashcards
☆ export all Chinese flashcards to a file
☆ import Chinese flashcards from a file (ZDT format or Wheebee Chinese format in UTF-8 encoding)
General app features:
☆ the app is also available in Czech and part of the app was translated to Chinese
☆ a detailed "Frequently asked questions" section is available inside the app
☆ two themes available (dark and light)
App advantages:
☆ contains English Chinese, French Chinese and German Chinese dictionary
☆ superfast Chinese dictionary gives relevant results, searches as you type, colors Chinese characters, supports speech recognition, words can be added to Chinese flashcards, database can be saved to an external memory card
☆ built-in premade Chinese tests and textbooks' wordlists for practising
☆ Chinese flashcards can be added to different categories
☆ supports both traditional and simplified Chinese
☆ very user-friendly
☆ it's for free
Permissions explanation:
☆ Network communication When using the Chinese dictionary for the first time, the app needs to download a database from the Internet.
☆ Storage: The app needs the access to the storage for exporting and importing Chinese flashcards.