Written Chinese Dictionary
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | Gigabud Limited | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Our top 10 favorite product reviews:
"I love this app and use it every day. I like how the characters look and I love the pronunciation audio and the writing demonstration for each character. I bought the option to make unlimited lists and am in organizational heaven...an excellent study aid for learning Chinese!" - Julie3456
"Cool new feature. Love the new visual feature. You just point the camera at characters and you can look them up in the dictionary." - Kevin Clark
"Great update. The latest update has some great features. This app is a must have if you're learning Chinese." - Peter DiSalvo
"Best dictionary ever!!!!" - truc don
"Instant translation w/ camera! The new instant camera translation is awesome" - Dan Sirois
"Good for reference, perfect for self-study. Very useful, lots of free resources. This is by far the best resource for learning Chinese that I've found so far." - Nick Olson
"I use this dict everyday :)" - Stella Kaden
"So it teaches and helps to remember using radicals?? Nice." - Ashley Graham
"Very powerful tool for learning chinese language. Congrats and thanks!" - Agustin Pallavidini
"Great dictionary! I love the functions of this app." Linh Nguyen
Reviews
Very Useful
grinr
I use this app all the time to practice my Chinese. I search a word and if I don't know it, I add it to my flashcard list. Afterwards I practice my flashcard set to retain new vocabulary. They also have a very helpful website!
Great app! Lots of functionality
Mel_win714
Love this app! I'm almost embarrassed to say... As a Chinese born in America, my parents always tried to get me to learn Chinese. Like most kids, I didn't study. So as I grew up, I started to lose it all. Now, I'd be lucky if I could string a decent sentence together. This app is prepping me for my visit to China. Not only does it tell you the meaning of the word, but the context of it as well. The Chinese language can be challenging, knowing how to use a word is very important. I love how it tells you the word and context and you can hear it in a sentence too. I can learn while reading what's on the app or hearing. It's a great app!
Useful As Is. Could Be Improved
terranXTRA
'Common Chinese (Set 1)' is listed as a free download. When you click on it, nothing happens. This is obviously a bug. Please fix.
Great with small limitations
Julie3456
I love this app and use it every day. I like how the characters look and I love the pronunciation audio and the writing demonstration for each character. I bought the option to make unlimited lists and am in organizational heaven. There are three things I've found that could be improved: 1) As another reviewer mentioned, trying to download any of the free lists causes the app to hang and I have to close it. 2) I would like to be able to reorder items in my lists. 3) Audio will not play through headphones. It will play through the phone's speakers. This means I can't study the sounds quietly. Other than those things, an excellent study aid for learning Chinese!
Better than most Chinese dictionaries
S.Kendrick
I have been using this dictionary for a little while now and I find it mush easier to navigate and to use than most other Chinese dictionaries, although the text to speech is a little slow. Love the app!
Great Chinese Resource!
Kellinator
Almost all resources can be earned for free over time. Spend time studying progressively and be rewarded! Just download it - it's amazing! Pros: Support - I had a problem with the recent update and support was very timely and helpful. Bilingual Books - I love the fact that there are books in here to read or listen to once you've studied the words. Flashcards - They have many flashcard sets, which is great. You're also given the option of Traditional or Simplified, tone colors, and a marker to indicate infrequently used Chinese words. Dictionary - Very easy to search by pinyin, character, or English as long as you're searching singular words. Writing - I haven't tried this yet, but there is a feature to see how each character is written. As you can see, this program is packed with lots of features. Cons: No flashcard SRS system. Looking up phrases in the dictionary (by typing in English) often returns no results. Looking up phrases in pinyin/characters returns all the individual characters and definitions but not example sentences or phrases they might be used in.
The Best Getting Better
Buscarsi
WCC works hard to please. Very customer oriented on the web, Twitter, Facebook, the app. I put in some input and saw it come to fruition in the upgrades. I admit, there's a more established (and way more expensive) app that has more scholarly content and I sometimes still turn to it. But WCC is the most FUN learning in terms of design and interaction and community. Beautiful app.
