# Hanzi Widget – 屏上学字 — Chinese vocab on your screen > Chinese vocab on your screen (iPhone/iPad app by Moritz Benjamin Goecke.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hanzi-widget/id6792356116 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Moritz Benjamin Goecke](https://appshunter.io/developer/6792356118) - Category: Education, Reference - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.6 · 31 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-22 - Data updated: 2026-08-24 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hanzi-widget/id6792356116/reviews.md ## What is Hanzi Widget? Hanzi Widget shows a Chinese word on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. It changes every two minutes. There is no account, no streak and nothing to keep up with. THE WORD LIST All of HSK 2.0 (levels 1 to 6) and HSK 3.0 (levels 1 to 6 and the combined band 7 to 9). You can switch between the two standards. 13,039 entries. Every one has pinyin, an English meaning and an example sentence written for this app. 12,086 of them also carry a Chinese definition from the Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary of the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. You choose which levels are active, and you can switch off individual words you already know. SIMPLIFIED AND TRADITIONAL Both scripts are supported and can be switched at any time. The other form is shown next to the main character. Four fonts are included: a Song, a Kai and two handwriting faces. WIDGETS Home Screen widgets in every size, including the extra large size on iPad. Lock Screen widgets. Zen shows the character on its own. A tap reveals the pinyin and the meaning. Max shows the character in both scripts together with an example sentence. In StandBy, a charging iPhone becomes a character display. Tapping a widget opens that word in the app. 源, THE ORIGIN WIDGET A fourth widget, about where characters come from. It shows one of 169 characters in its oldest attested form, in most cases oracle bone script from the Shang dynasty. A tap moves on to the seal script, and then to the character as it is written today. Each character has one line on what the early form depicts. These 169 were chosen because a documented early form exists for each one. The wording is ours. The substance follows the Multi-function Chinese Character Database of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. SPOKEN SENTENCES Example sentences in the word list can be read aloud, using the Chinese voices already installed on your device. ALSO INCLUDED Four optional sets outside HSK: financial numerals, provincial capitals, province abbreviations and Chinese dynasties. The full word list can be searched and browsed, with meanings and example sentences. The app is free. It has no ads, no subscriptions and no in-app purchases. It works without a network connection, keeps no account, collects nothing and sends nothing. 屏上学字. Characters on your screen. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.4 — 2026-08-18 A new widget, 源, about where characters come from. • 169 characters, each shown first in its oldest attested form, then in seal script, then as it is written today • One line on each character about what the early form depicts • Available in the small and large sizes This version also corrects a number of entries. Some readings, English meanings and traditional forms were wrong, as was the pinyin printed under some example sentences. About 2,100 sentences and around 140 entries are affected. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-08-06 Hear the example sentences. • Tap the speaker next to any example sentence in the word list to hear it read aloud • Uses the Chinese voices installed on your device — the app picks the best one automatically • Plays even when your phone is silenced: music ducks, podcasts pause • A short guide appears if no Mandarin voice is installed yet • New in-app walkthrough showing how to add a widget to your Home Screen • Smaller download ### 1.0.2 — 2026-08-02 The Apple Watch app has been discontinued so we can focus on iPhone and iPad. All widgets on iPhone and iPad are unchanged. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-01 StandBy is here. Put your iPhone on its side while charging and a new character fills the screen. • Two new widgets: Zen (just the character, tap to reveal) and Max (character plus example sentence) • Every widget now changes word every 2 minutes • Much better use of space — characters are bigger and no longer cut off • Word list: the selected entry is now far larger and follows your system text size • Word counts now shown for every HSK level • Dark mode is easier to read ### 1.0 — 2026-07-23 No release notes. ## Related topics [hanzi app](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/hanzi-app) · [hanzi](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/hanzi) --- *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 2026-08-24.*