# Chinese Hanzi Dictionary — user reviews > 19 indexed App Store user reviews of Chinese Hanzi Dictionary by 运斌 李, rated 4.60/5 from 353 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chinese-hanzi-dictionary/id1514800989/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chinese-hanzi-dictionary/id1514800989.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 282 · 4★ 32 · 3★ 15 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 17 ## Newest reviews (1 of 19) ### 4/5 — Très complet, utile pour bien apprendre à écrire. *2024-02-18* Beaucoup d’exemples de phrases utilisant un mot recherché. J’ai juste un problème pour le son, je suis sur iOS. Il n’y a pas de son. :-( ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — bad searching *2025-09-27* even though its a dictionary FOR hanzi you cant even use hanzi to look up words and the most irrelevant words show up if you use pinyin ### 1/5 — Ads *2025-08-03, version 2.15.0* The ADS ### 1/5 — 更新后在iPad上闪退 *2024-05-25* iPad系统版本12·5·7上更新到最新版本闪退，无法打开应用，希望可以兼顾老旧设备无法升级到最新系统的情况。 ### 1/5 — Liars *2024-03-05* The description is a lie. It’s not free, you have to pay to view most of the words and characters ### 2/5 — Got a charge for no reason *2026-07-30, version 3.1.1* Charged me a couple dollars for no reason ### 3/5 — like it *2026-04-04* could be improved by: - randomization button that selects random hanzi within course selected (e.g. HSK1) - method to translate phrase in its entirety instead of single character by character - definition defaults to always showing english first - the "?" page does not move off of the introduction page (others not viewable?) ### 3/5 — Dark mode bugged *2025-02-11* At first dark mode was ok, but after a while the drawing lines on character inout turned black, so it’s hard to see what you are writing when searching for a character. I hope they fix this. **Developer response:** Thanks for your review, this issue will be fixed in next release ### 3/5 — Tracing lags and gets stuck *2024-12-23* I paid for the ad free upgrade as I don’t want my kids to accidentally click on it. It was cheap enough but I’m disappointed there doesn’t seem to be any other extra features as a result of the lifetime upgrade. Tracing the character is laggy and the stroke doesn’t complete and prompt the next stroke consistently. Hope they fix this lag & inconsistency issue. **Developer response:** Sorry that this app gives you a bad experience. the main feature of premium version is full access to all data and no ads. If you encounter a software problem, please send us the details of the problem by email so that we can fix the problem quickly. yodesoft at gmail dot com ### 4/5 — Character strokes *2026-01-04* Apple Pencil doesn’t work on some fields. The execution order of character writing doesn’t follow transnational Portocol. But over all VERY NICE ### 4/5 — Background color *2024-10-01* My background is black. How to set the background color to white? Thanks! **Developer response:** It follows your system settings, set your appearance to "light". ## Most praised reviews (8 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 一个字，快 *2025-04-19* 其他同类软件加载搜索输入页面慢，这个app足够快 **Developer response:** Thanks for your review! 谢谢！ ### 5/5 — Awesome app! *2025-04-04, version 2.8.3* This app does exactly what I wanted it to do. It is a dictionary but it also has example sentences, other words that include that character, it also allows for multi-character words to be searched up together, and it has stroke order, handwriting practice and more! It’s really intuitive and easy to use. The whole app is in Chinese as well which forces me to actually use my brain more. ### 5/5 — A very useful app for both learning to write hanzi and pronounce the words/sentences *2025-03-14, version 2.8.0* This app is very simple to use and useful. I found the feature to be able to perform hanzi writing for the whole sentence instead of wasting time looking up one character at a time. Another feature very useful is that you can press the button to hear the pronunciation of a single word, and when you search a whole sentence, you can also hear the complete pronunciation for the whole sentence. It solves all of my pain points. The pronunciation and the voice within the app is amazing, i dont have to switch to gg translate. Will keep using the app. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Fantastic App *2024-11-30* I’m really impressed with this app, especially for the price! It has everything you need in a character learning app - pinyin, zhuyin, definitions, stroke order, and practice. Where this really shines for me, though, is its collections. They have collections for all the major Chinese tests, but also for common textbooks used in schools in Taiwan! It’s amazing for my kids to practice with because the Hanlin collection follows exactly the order they’re learning from their school textbooks! So happy I found this. Definitely recommend over the high priced subscription apps. **Developer response:** Thanks for your review! 感謝閣下的評論！ ### 5/5 — Good overall *2024-09-25* Please add a feature to add characters to review collections and to improve touch sensitivity on iPad, otherwise amazingly helpful **Developer response:** Thanks for your review! Need more details on your suggestions, please contact yodesoft at gmail dot com ### 5/5 — Por fin…. *2024-07-17* Al fin conseguí una app en español que me enseñara el orden de los trazos, aunque puedes escribir los trazos como te da la gana no puedes acostumbrarte a ello pues en algún momentos alguien se dará cuenta del desastre. Lo mejor es aprender a hacer bien las cosas desde el principio. ¡Gracias por hacer esta aplicación en español! 谢谢 🫰 **Developer response:** Thanks for your review!谢谢 ### 5/5 — helped me a lot! *2023-10-26, version 1.33.0* it helped me write letters in the right order, and my handwriting looks neater now ### 4/5 — Good but… *2024-09-11* How to change language from Chinese to English? **Developer response:** The UI of app has English language and the app follows the system language setting --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*