Chinese & Cantonese Dictionary

Hanzi Desk brings Chinese word lookup, reading and vocabulary study together in a native app for iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad. No account is required. LOOK UP WORDS Search Chinese characters, pinyin, Jyutping or English meanings. Compare simplified and traditional forms, see source parts of speech, and use optional tone colours to follow pronunciation. Compact results make it easy to compare words. EXPLORE EACH DEFINITION Switch between definitions, etymology, related words, examples and grammar, animated stroke order, and character information, including what a character is made of and the characters it appears in. Every reading of a character is listed, most common first. Reference data and stroke paths are included for offline use. LISTEN AND PRACTISE Listen to available Mandarin and Cantonese recordings. Audio is labelled by source, including human recordings, synthetic whole-word recordings and recorded Mandarin syllables. Coverage varies and most recordings download when needed. Optional device speech uses available system voices. Handwriting input offers ranked character suggestions. READ YOUR OWN TEXTS Paste Chinese text or import TXT and EPUB files. Tap words as you read to look them up and save them, show pinyin above new words, and follow along as sentences are read aloud. Recognize Chinese text from a camera photo or your photo library using on-device recognition. Choose from Chinese font styles and adjust reading size. BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY Save words and sentences with notes and practise with spaced reviews: meaning, recall, listening, tone and writing cards, decks and progress statistics. Export and restore JSON backups. Your study content stays on your device; there is no account-based automatic sync. OFFLINE FIRST CC-CEDICT and CC-Canto are included for offline search, together with example, character and stroke references. Other dictionaries, downloadable font families and most audio require a connection on first use. Technical download information is handled by the hosting provider as described in the privacy policy. No advertising or cross-app tracking. Dictionary, recording, font and reference credits are available in Settings → Licenses & acknowledgements. External source hyperlinks are optional and off by default; internal word lookups always work.