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  • ABC Cantonese Dictionary + Wenlin Kickstarter

    We’re very excited to announce that we’ve just signed a license for the forthcoming ABC Cantonese Dictionary, edited by Robert Bauer, which we hope to start offering in Pleco in early-to-mid 2017. This is the first comprehensive Cantonese-to-English dictionary published in 30 years, and includes entries for about 15,000 Cantonese-specific words, with part-of-speech tagging and …Read More »

Key Features

  • OCR

    Look up unknown Chinese words ‘live’ using your device’s camera, or tap-lookup words in a still image.

  • Handwriting

    Look up words by drawing them on the screen; very accurate and tolerant of stroke order mistakes.

  • Dictionaries

    Huge and growing collection of licensed dictionary databases, including titles from Oxford, Longman, FLTRP, and many other major publishers.

  • Audio

    Recordings from two different native speakers for 34,000 Mandarin words, with speech synthesizer (for sentences) and Cantonese support as well.

  • Flashcards

    Insanely powerful / customizable system, making it extremely easy to add new flashcards from dictionary entries or import pre-made vocabulary lists.

    • Document Reader

      Look up words in a document simply by tapping on them; supports TXT/EPUB/DOC/PDF files and web pages on iOS, TXT/PDF files on Android.

    • Screen Reader

      Android-only; look up Chinese words in any app on your device by tapping on a floating button.

    • Incredibly Fast

      We use a custom-built database engine so fast that it can search and process results from a dozen different dictionaries before you’ve finished lifting your finger off the screen.

    • Well-Supported

      We’ve been in business for 15 years, and we offer free upgrades and free platform transfers whenever possible; we have users who bought the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary from us for Palm Pilot in 2001 and are still able to use that same purchase on their brand-new iPhone 6s or Samsung Galaxy in 2016 without ever having had to pay an upgrade fee.