Hanping Chinese Camera 2.12 Released
Android 16 support Bug fixes Get it on Google Play: Please contact us with your feedback....
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Android 16 support Bug fixes Get it on Google Play: Please contact us with your feedback....
Android 16 support Bug fixes Get it on Google Play: Please contact us with your feedback....
Performance improvements Bug fixes Get it on Google Play: and Please contact us with your feedback....
Tweaked theming especially in light mode Improved English search suggestion buttons Soundboard Syllables & Tone Pairs screens uses tone coloring Android 16 c...
Add drag-drop support for reordering a user word list Bug fixes Note: an earlier version (8
Hanzi Decomposition - see the breakdown of the top 10k characters, including which component is the radical, and which indicates the pronunciation (where app...
Added Phonetic Relatives when viewing single character headwords Phonetic Relative: A character that shares the same phonetic component as the headword
Better Android 14 support Use Quick Settings Tile to hide/show cursor Bug fixes Get it on Google Play: Please contact us with your feedback....
Added support for Predictive Back navigation (Android 15+) Fixed bug where UI would always reset when relaunching the app Fixed issue when importing user dat...
Handwriting UI tweaks Fixed Back button behavior which was closing search results before handwriting/radicals No longer check other dict app for Strokes enti...
These changes mostly affect the Mandarin app (Hanping Chinese Dictionary) regarding the HSK exam vocab lists
Improvements under the hood Bug fixes Get it on Google Play: Please contact us with your feedback....
Introduction We're excited to announce that Hanping Chinese Dictionary Pro is now FREE for everyone
Mostly just internal changes in this update: Improved support for Android 15 If you had any Hanping home screen widgets, they need to be re-added
Migrated to new Android Photo Picker Bug fixes Get it on Google Play: Please contact us with your feedback....
Added Hanzi Info dialog accessible from overflow menu or by long tap on single character headword
This update addresses various features related to phonetics
Choose between Google Translate and Microsoft Translator (see Chinese Settings) for generic translations (when clicking on translate icon) Quick access to tr...
This version is only for Android 14 and higher Older Android versions use the 1
Launching dictionary app, now shows word popup (Pro only) Better Android 14 support Get it on Google Play: Please contact us with your feedback....
Added support for Hanping Accounts in order to have a single place to store your Hanping purchases (app purchases and in-app purchases)
Added support for drag-and-drop text from other apps to Hanping (e split screen mode)
Major improvements to the popups showing Chinese word details as well as Chinese/English search results
Main changes: Improved how radicals/handwriting integrates with UI More robust UI navigation Some widget fixes Fixed issue with ABC plugins Bug fixes Get it ...
Main changes: Better english/phonetic search disambiguation Handwriting UI fixes - added more tap area to four corner buttons. Also, strokes no longer lost o...
This replaces the old behavior which was to show all the sub-words starting from that character
The two Meiqi Voice add-ons have been combined into one Simplified Add-ons screen
Main changes: Major improvements to Phonetic/English search disambiguation Moved search language button to below search box Improved Part Of Speech dialog Fi...
Main changes: Fixed long-standing issue with some third-party keyboards (e.g. Message Ease) Other bug fixes regarding restoring search when returning to app ...
Now, a list of selectable child tag is shown in a single Popup Fixed Voice Recognition (Cantonese app) which was using Mandarin (Taiwan) as default language ...
This update continues with lots of changes under-the-hood which are important for the long-term future of the app
This update fixes a long-standing issue which you may or may not have noticed
This update focuses on refreshing the UI on many of the secondary screens including Settings, Soundboard, Add-ons, Handwriting, Radicals screens etc
This update mostly focuses on changes under the hood to bring stability to the way user preferences are stored
Some days bring nice coincidences
Made some improvements to the tagging system
Updated the Lite version to bring support for 64-bit-only devices (e
Dark theme, and follow-system-theme support Bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
Dark theme, and follow-system-theme support Bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
This is a minor update that fixes several bugs and updated dictionary data In the Mandarin app () we have also added HSK 3
This is a major update that brings a much more powerful search engine (especially for English searches) as well as more useful search results – decomposition...
For any of you running MIUI 11 (which is the system running on most Xiaomi devices released in the past couple of years), you might have experienced an issue...
Hanping Chinese Dictionary, I say Is 10 years old today More updates on the way Wishing Happy Birthday
Updated recognition engine Bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
Added support for pinyin/jyutping abbreviation search Now you can type "wsm" or "wshm" instead of "weishenme" for faster lookups
Updated recognition engine Fixed Quick Settings Tile state Long-tap on copy button was not working Other bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
This is a minor update including: Updated dictionary, examples and stroke data Accessibility improvements Nice animation in search box Several bug fixes Avai...
This update is for Android Marshmallow 6 0 and later
This update is for Android Marshmallow 6 0 and later Added Import User Vocab feature to allow bulk import of words into your custom tags
More export options (long-tap on tag in Tags tab)
Updated Cantodict dictionary data and example sentences Get it on Google Play:...
Added thousands of example sentences (provided by TutorMandarin) In total, over 5,000 example sentences, and over 5,000 words have at least one example sente...
Updated ABC dictionaries and formatting - please go to Add Ons screen to perform update (Hanping Pro only) Added part-of-speech to ABC brief definitions (e
We've made it easier to hear all the Chinese sounds by adding a Soundboard (accessible from the left Navigation drawer) to the Hanping dictionary apps
Added support for Hanping Dictionary's new Notes feature
Add notes to any word - this allows you to add your own translations/meanings/comments to any word regardless of whether it is already in a dictionary or not...
Popup shows tags (e.g. "hsk 1", custom tags etc) Long-press star icon to assign custom tags Bug fix: properly detect characters against left edge Added butto...
Tag from within clipboard notifications (Android N) Improved clipboard notification styling (choose between old Hanping style and new System style in Hanping...
This is a minor update
Added toolbar to homescreen widgets allowing you to star/copy/play words Also randomization is now better persisted
Added toolbar to homescreen widgets allowing you to star/copy/play words Also randomization is now better persisted
Better support for HSK alternative pronunciations Some bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store...
Several bug fixes (mostly concerning improved tagging feature)
Much improved starring/tagging system No longer need to star a word to tag it Custom tags (corresponding to the word) shown on main Details screen beneath he...
Much improved starring/tagging system No longer need to star a word to tag it Custom tags (corresponding to the word) shown on main Details screen beneath he...
New audio add-on (paid) for HSK6 multi-syllable words (2300+ recordings): Meiqi HSK6
This is a minor update: Fixed problem (Android 7 1) regarding Launch Camera App Note: 2
This fixes a bug where the soft keyboard would close as soon as the popup window (showing the Chinese headword & definition) appeared
We've teamed up with The Chairman's Bao (TCB) (an online Chinese newspaper aimed at people learning Mandarin Chinese) to bring more example sentences to Hanp...
CantoDict examples sentences Minor bug fixes
This is a major update bringing a new beautiful font where 9501 characters can be animated
Added support for Android N Quick Settings Tile (version 1 5) Fixed Android N bug where tutorial images were not displaying (version 1
Fixed pinyin umlaut tone-marking bug (Hanping Chinese only) Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data (Hanping Chinese only) Added more external links (Hanping Chine...
New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup Available on
support - Now you can study your starred words using Anki's hugely popular Spaced Repetition System (SRS) flashcard software
(Pro only) support - Now you can study your starred words using Anki's hugely popular Spaced Repetition System (SRS) flashcard software
This is a minor bugfix update: Added a few new sounds Improved a few existing sounds More robust in-app purchase mechanism Some bugfixes Get it on Google Pla...
These are minor bug fix updates and include information about our new free app Hanping Chinese SoundBox which helps beginners learn Chinese pronunciation
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR And what better way to celebrate than announce our brand new app: Hanping Chinese SoundBox for Android 4
New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup Available on
(Paid apps only) Homescreen Widget improvements and bug fixes - can now reconfigure widget by clicking on the app icon (top-right corner of widget) and then ...
Better Google Translate support Requires Google Translate app to be installed New translate icon appears next to not-in-dictionary search results Click on tr...
Better handwriting recognition More Android Marshmallow support (regarding backups) Minor bug fixes Note: 4
Fixed Trigger on System Startup Minor bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
Better system Text-to-Speech support
Better popup swipe-to-dismiss: now nicely fades out as you slide left/right and animates away properly Minor bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
This is an important bug fix update Performance bug fix - accidentally introduced a bug in 4
This is a minor bug fix update Long-press on audio icon to play audio using system TTS
Improved clipboard notifications Improved External Links section Redesigned navigation drawer Removed lots of notifications Fixed some dict formatting issues...
Improved clipboard notifications Improved External Links section Redesigned navigation drawer Removed lots of notifications Fixed some dict formatting issues...
New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup Available on
Improved character recognition Added support for Android Marshmallow No longer requires permission to write to external storage (e
Here is our new promo video for our latest app for Android Lollipop The app is available on
This is a minor bugfix update for our app released a couple of months ago
Since YouTube is unavailable in mainland China, our product demo videos (currently Hanping Popup and Hanping Camera) are now also available on Youku i
New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup Available on
New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup Available on
New app announcement: Hanping Chinese Popup Available on
We're delighted to announce our brand new app: Hanping Chinese Popup (Android Lollipop) The ultimate solution for quickly looking up Chinese words on your sm...
We've finally got around to making a quick demo video of our Hanping Chinese Camera app
Better Zhuyin support - If you have selected Zhuyin phonetic, now English/Pinyin search terms more readily assumed to be English than Pinyin
Updated app icon to material design Minor bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
Updated launcher icon to Material Design Updated CantoDict dictionary data Fixed problem regarding importing custom font (sometimes they were greyed out in s...
Updated launcher icon to Material Design Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data Fixed problem regarding importing custom font (sometimes they were greyed out in s...
This is a minor bug fix update
This is a bug fix update on 4
This is a bug fix update on 4
This is a minor bug fix update on 4 0 (which brought handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio)
This is a significant improvement on the bug fix updates from last week: Live mode: Better operation in low light Live mode: Less aggressive refocusing strat...
This is a bug fix update on 4
This is a minor bug fix update on 4 0 (which brought handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio)
This is a bug fix update on 4 Improved sentence decomposition - much better handling when search text is a mix of Simplified and Traditional characters
This is a bugfix update on version 2 2 which was released a couple of weeks ago
This is a series of significant bug fix updates on the major 2 0 update released last month
This is a bug fix update on 4 0 (which brought handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio)
This is a bug fix update on 4
This is a bugfix update on version 2 1 which was released last week Updated dictionary data Fixed an audio bug occurring on some Android 4
Happy Chinese New Year
This is a bug fix update on 4
This update brings a UI refresh of Material Design goodness and is currently being rolled out to all devices running Android 4
This is a bug fix update on 4
This update brings a UI refresh of Material Design goodness and supports all devices running Android 4
This is a bugfix update on version 2 0 which was released last week Fixed audio bug that was occurring on some Android 4
The first update to the best offline Cantonese dictionary app on the planet, has arrived
Minor bug fix update (Android 5 0+ devices only) Fixes handwriting bug that occurred on some Android 5
We are delighted to announce our brand new Android app: Hanping Cantonese Dictionary Supports both Traditional and Simplified characters as well as Jyutping ...
Minor bug fixes. Get it on Google Play:...
Fixed crashing on 4 4 (KitKat) devices
2 is a minor bug fix update on 1
This is a bug fix update on 3 7 are very minor bug fix updates
This is a minor bug fix update (3
1 is a very minor update on 1 0 which includes: Improved first time installation experience if user does not already have Hanping dictionary installed (1
Please note: This update is going out as a staged rollout, so if you have not yet received it, then you should receive it some time in the next couple of days
Please note: This update is going out as a staged rollout, so if you have not yet received it, then you should receive it some time in the next couple of days
For a small minority of users, there was a bug in the earlier 3 8 releases that prevented starred words and search history (from pre3
2 are minor bugfix updates on 3 This update covers: Several secondary screens updated with new UI and better UX
This is a very minor bug fix update on 3
6 (Android 2 7 (Android 2 3+) are minor updates including: Faster recognition library (1
This is a bug fix update for 3
2014, we officially retired our Hanping Chinese Classic app for Android
Clipboard Monitoring (Android 4 0+) - when you copy Chinese characters into the Clipboard you can optionally get a system notification showing the definition
5 is a bug fix update which includes: New app icon
This is a bug fix update for 3 Also adds support for Sharing Chinese text to Hanping's new Notification feature
Clipboard Monitoring (Android 4 0+) - when you copy Chinese characters into the Clipboard you can optionally get a system notification showing the definition
The is the old free version of Hanping Chinese Dictionary It is only useful to people running Android 2
4 are bug fix updates on 1 0 which includes: Merges multiple matches into one (e
5 fixes many small bugs in 3
The is the old free version of Hanping Chinese Dictionary It is only useful to people running Android 2
This fixes many small bugs in 3
This is a minor update on 3 Better custom font support (especially on Android 4 4+ KitKat devices)
3 is a minor update on 3 4 is a minor bug fix update on 3 3, only relevant if you are having problems recognising custom fonts
This is an important bug fix update on 3 1 which sometimes fails to launch correctly
Vertical Zhuyin/Bopomofo support Added backspace button to radicals screen Performance improvements Some bug fixes \caption id="attachment\840" align="alignc...
This is a minor bugfix update on 3
Lots of work under the covers in this update, but still plenty of goodies too Brand new Homescreen Widget design (Android Honeycomb 3
This is a small update on 3 1 released last week Custom tone coloring Fixed left/right swipe bug (bug introduced in 3
This is a small update on 3 1 released last week Custom tone coloring Fixed left/right swipe bug (bug introduced in 3
Added support for colored pinyin/zhuyin - because in many ways it makes more sense to color-by-tone on the phonetic rather than the hanzi Improved Settings s...
This is a micro update on 3 0 released a few days ago
Added Backup/Restore feature - starred words, search history prefs are bundled into a single zip file which you can then place somewhere for safekeeping (and...
Fixed missing camera icon Fixed bug when running in Turkish locale Several minor bug fixes Get it on Google Play: If you like this app, please consider upgra...
Fixed incomplete downloads bug Fixed bug when running in Turkish locale Improved implementation for sending email to developer Fixed rare exception when pagi...
Fixed rare ABC CE database bug on some older devices (only a problem on some custom firmware running SQLite 3
New Radicals lookup (access it through overflow menu at the top-right of the screen)
This is a minor bug fix update on yesterday's 3
Improved sentence decomposition - better handling of punctuation etc Added concept of simple vs
Fixed 'invisible' example sentences in ABC Chinese-English dictionary Fixed tags ordering in Tags dialog Fixed some comma-containing links in CC-CEDICT dicti...
New Radicals lookup (access it through overflow menu at the top-right of the screen)
Fixed bug when prompting user to install dictionary app - they were incorrectly being taken to the old Hanping Chinese Classic app rather than the new Hanpin...
Fixed rare handwriting crash & made some handwriting UI tweaks - now, instead of pressing the "left" arrow icon in the bottom-left corner, you press the tick...
Now that we have recently released") a brand new free version of Android's most popular Chinese dictionary, the old free app has been renamed to Hanping Chin...
Minor bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
This is a bugfix release on the beta version released earlier this year
This is a minor bugfix update on yesterday's 3
Improved experience when downloading/installing audio and ABC dictionaries Fixed some bugs when tagging starred words Minor bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
Better navigation - in older versions of Hanping, it could take many Back-presses to go back through all the dictionary entries to get to the Search screen
Faster searching - improved Hanzi, Pinyin and English searches Minor bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
Faster searching - improved Hanzi, Pinyin and English searches Minor bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
6 is a bug fix update because of a bug introduced in 3 5 which affected widgets and left/right swiping (on Browse screen) on older (Gingerbread) devices
Action Bar UI goodness for both Search and Browse screens Search screen: Moved History/Starred/Lists tab bar to top of screen (which is more standard on Andr...
Tidied up icons with better support for both day and night modes Fixed headword tabs bug (only applicable if you have the ABC English-Chinese Dictionary inst...
When searching English AND you have ABC English-Chinese Dictionary (i
2 are very minor bugfix updates on 3 If you have not experienced any problems with 3
Minor bug fixes for our new free dictionary app Please don't forget to leave a rating and/or comment on , to help others find Hanping on the Play Store
Now that we have recently released") a brand new free version of Android's most popular Chinese dictionary, the old free app has been renamed to Hanping Chin...
We've just released a new free edition () of Hanping Chinese Dictionary targeted specifically for Gingerbread (and higher) devices
UI tweaks (Gingerbread and higher devices) Better installation experience (Gingerbread and higher devices) Minor bug fixes 3
Better memory management and less battery usage More bug fixes If you see any bugs, such as a stretched Live preview, please email us
Fixed clipboard bug where old clipboard text was being searched on app launch Tweaked the tone colors Minor bug fixes Get it on Google Play: and...
UI tweaks including brighter tone coloring and more transparent grey overlay Blue recognition line now green
Fixed some rare crashes Better handling of out of memory errors Get it on Google Play:...
Fixed slow-loading issue (for Pro, already fixed in previous update) Added brand new app: Hanping Chinese OCR to Menu > Buy screen Minor bug fixes (including...
10 changes: Fixed slow-loading issue Voice recognition settings now in Settings screen (used to be on About screen)
Search history & Settings now auto-imported from Lite version (no earlier than 3
Fixes a pre-Froyo bug introduced in the 3
The backup file is stored here: /Android/data/com embermitre dictroid/prefs/com embermitre
Added setting to Prefer Chinese Results (only applicable with ABC English-Chinese installed)
1 fixes some bugs in 3 0 (which is described in this post)
3 is a minor bug fix update on 3 2 fixing an in-app billing crash, minor handwriting issues and a crash on startup on some old Motorola devices
Today, hit the magic 10,000 downloads mark on the Google Play Store
Refreshed app icon Added English starred words functionality (only relevant if ABC English-Chinese installed) - from Starred Tab, touch top-left icon to swit...
This contains a few minor bug fixes to the recently-released 2 0 which added support for the ABC English-Chinese Dictionary (as in-app purchase)
Added ABC English-Chinese in-app purchase (~10USD)
Pro version now offers superb ABC Chinese-English Dictionary as in-app purchase Added dialog explaining how to get Pro version in China Minor bug fixes Avail...
Fixed Pinyin ü bug (recently-introduced bug that was causing problems with colouring the Hanzi) Improved About screen (merged Installed Dictionaries and Purc...
Improved formatting of ABC entries (see screenshot) Clicking on individual Hanzi in headword is now more intelligent Fixed potential startup delay caused by ...
Browse screen (showing a single dictionary entry) now also shows the definition for the same word in any other dictionaries installed
The Pro version now includes an in-app product for the superb ABC Chinese-English Dictionary
Minor bug fixes Get it on Google Play:...
Significant changes: Custom font support Improved dictionary entry formatting (Pro version only) Disabled word prediction when entering search term (now much...
Unfortunately paid Android apps are currently unavailable in China & Taiwan amongst others (for a full list of paid-app countries see here although it's not ...
Added Chinese localization
As most of you know, paid Android apps are not available in China or Taiwan, but there are a couple of tricks to work around this (such as the sim card swap)
Fixed bug where on rare occasions audio installation would freeze mid-way Other minor bug fixes
Supports Move to SD card Minor bug fixes
Handwriting improvements including: Redesigned layout (replaced OK button with Back icon, shifted suggestions to top of screens like with normal IMEs) Fixed ...
Added built-in handwriting recognition\ Support for Move to SD\\ Minor bug fixes \ Handwriting stroke data may be sent to a 3rd party server to improve recog...
Audio fix (please email us if you have any problems) Long-press clipboard icon to append Chinese characters to clipboard
Better phrase support - now you can star Chinese phrases (or any Chinese word even if it is not in the dictionary)
Minor bug fixes regarding handling of corrupt database file Audio enhancements\ \ Hanping Pro now includes brand new audio files (provided by FlashDragon Pub...
Fixed bug regarding list items not in dictionary This bug appeared in 2
Some minor widget enhancements - now you can force that the phonetics are never displayed in the widget
Made some changes to the Word Details screen: Moved "External Websites" icon down to below entry description (now called "Links") Added "Search" icon (also b...
This is a major update: Much better search results - search results are now shown dynamically which means as you scroll down, Hanping searches deeper into th...
Fixed bug which resulted in very slow queries when including tone numbers in pinyin search queries (e
EDIT: 31 March 2011 - First stable release of 2 This is a major update Most of the changes are internal allowing for exciting enhancements in future updates
Some bug fixes...
Much better management of Faves/Starred words Now, a "Starred" word corresponds one-to-one with whether the Star icon (second screen) is glowing
Major improvements to homescreen widgets including: Each widget takes words (at random) from the configured word list Mini skip icon (top-right) allows you t...
Switched from MobClix to AdMob ad network
First stable release: Small bugfix which was causing a Force Close
Redesigned messages layout and improved icons Bug fix where sometimes only one message was showing in message list (when should have been more)
The first public beta of Hanping Chinese SMS Reader This app is for those who receive Chinese SMS messages and want to know more about the meaning
Performance bug fix for when decomposing long search strings (was very slow on pre-2
Performance bug fix for when decomposing long search strings (was very slow on pre-2
Minor bug fixes...
Some speed improvements by no longer partially matching English when it is very short Now, before user ever specifies Pinyin or English, the searching will t...
Fixed lock-up on Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 when trying to loads ads when there is no network connection Some speed improvements by no longer partially matchin...
Fixed bug when attempting to download word lists
Fixed bug when attempting to download word lists
More Chinese localization (please email me any corrections) Minor bug fix for when downloading word lists
New features: Traditional & Simplified chars can now be displayed together
Added Chinese (Traditional & Simplified) localization (please email me any corrections
On second screen, fling (fast swipe) up or down to step through the search results
New features: New "Share" option menu in second screen
Major update from 1 4: Complete overhaul of the UI/UX Lots more built-in word lists (e
Changes include: Create/rename/delete user list now performed in second screen (instead of first)
Major update: Complete overhaul of the UI/UX Lots more built-in word lists (e HSK) Multiple user lists
New features: Quick Search Box (QSB) support
Added word-of-the-day widget This is updated every 24 hours and picks a random word from the 1000 most frequent two-character chinese words
This brings the Lite version up-to-date with the Pro version (minus the Pro-specific features, of course
Changes since 1.4.0 are: User is notified (one-time dialog box) when a dictionary update becomes available When the search text matches both Pinyin and Engli...
Changes are: Voice recognition (Android 2
Solves the issue where showing all the favourites, but none being stored, could cause a Force Close
Lots of behind the scenes improvements here primarily geared towards the search results, in particular ordering
Not too many new features as such, but lots of improvements to the way the dictionary is installed & updated