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September 15, 2026
Updated
October 22, 2026

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Hanzi Scan brings Chinese character lookup, pronunciation, and writing practice together. Explore unfamiliar characters, listen to Mandarin pronunciation, and follow stroke order animations as you practice. Turn the characters you encounter into learning material on your iPhone or iPad. CHARACTER LOOKUP Look up Chinese characters and reinforce what you learn through listening and writing. STROKE ORDER ANIMATIONS See how characters are written, explore their structure stroke by stroke, and practice writing them yourself. MANDARIN AUDIO Listen to Mandarin pronunciation. Available voices depend on the system voices installed on your device. IMAGE RECOGNITION Recognize text from a selected image, then continue with character lookup and practice. An active subscription is required. PERSONAL VOCABULARY BOOK Save characters on your device and return to them for review. An active subscription is required. THREE INTERFACE LANGUAGES Choose Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, or English. Designed for iPhone and iPad. FREE ACCESS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS Enjoy 24 hours of basic feature access from your first launch without purchasing a subscription. An active subscription is required to continue after this period. Selecting images and using the vocabulary book require a subscription even during the free access period. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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What's New in Hanzi Scan

1.0.1

October 22, 2026

Tap a character or word to hear it read aloud. Adjust playback speed in Settings, with a slower 0.8× default. Added human Mandarin recordings and corrected several pinyin, tone, and alternate-pronunciation issues. Browse more saved characters at once with the new vocabulary grid. Improved Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English localization, with clearer iCloud sync error messages.

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