Mandarin Helper

Mandarin Helper is an iPhone/iPod Touch application which provides the Chinese character look-up function by requiring only a part of the character, called "radical". It will list all characters from the hsk level 1-4 which contains the particular radical. The user select the character from the search result list, then the program will display words list from the dictionary. The definition part displays the meanings of the word as well as "Pinyin". To search radicals, simplified Chinese character keyboard (OS X Touch builtin) must be used.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Reference	Free	Ssu Jen Lu	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Reviews

Pretty neat
Teacher Man

It would be very nice if you added copying to the pasteboard and definitions of the individual radicals. However, this IS free so it's helpful in many ways. Thank you!

还可以
fwoomp

I finally found a way to get back to the full screen after entering a radical. Just tap on the screen. I'd rather tap some kind of "Done" button though, instead of accidentally hitting a character. The springboard icon could be more crisp-looking. The name is too long. It shows up as "Manda...elper" on the springboard.

Best character lookup tool I've found
bmjjr

Need to find meaning of a complicated character? Use iPhones character drawing input keyboard to draw some part of the character and then search. Odds are the character your looking for will be returned in the list this app generates. This app has become critical to me during my 6 month stay in China. Fantastic app if you use it as intended.