Added support for pinyin/jyutping abbreviation search. Now you can type “wsm” or “wshm” instead of “weishenme” for faster lookups! One good strategy is to just enter the first character of each syllable (e.g. “zgr” for “zhongguoren”) and, if there are too many matches, then finish the final syllable in full (e.g. “zgren” for “zhongguoren”) Added some missing HSK2-5 multisyllable sounds (Hanping Pro only) Fixed bug in vocab importer (mostly concerning traditional Chinese) Fixed Ankidroid audio playback issue (when dictionary app not already running in background) Fixed backup/restore issue Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data and Tutor Mandarin example sentences Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor update including: Updated dictionary, examples and stroke data Accessibility improvements Nice animation in search box Several bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This update is for Android Marshmallow 6.0 and later. Improved handwriting/radicals UI Fixed some China-related bugs Updated dictionary data (CC-CEDICT/CANTODICT) (Hanping Cantonese app only) Fixed some issues with CANTODICT examples Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This update is for Android Marshmallow 6.0 and later. Added Import User Vocab feature to allow bulk import of words into your custom tags. In the Tags tab, click on the 3-dots icon top-right (just below Tags label) and select Import user vocab file. You can then pick any text file and Hanping will automatically extract vocab from it. Note - the text file should contain a vocab list (e.g. one vocab item per line), not freeform text.

More export options (long-tap on tag in Tags tab). Now you can also export your tagged (as well as built-in tags like HSK) words to a text file with all custom taggings & starrings included Performance improvements (e.g. regarding tag lists) (Mandarin apps only) Added another 100 example sentences (provided by TutorMandarin) Clip Monitor Quick Settings Tile tweaks Many bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Added thousands of example sentences (provided by TutorMandarin) In total, over 5,000 example sentences, and over 5,000 words have at least one example sentence Bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Updated ABC dictionaries and formatting - please go to Add Ons screen to perform update (Hanping Pro only) Added part-of-speech to ABC brief definitions (e.g. in search results and Anki export) (Hanping Pro only) Added Soundboard shortcut (Android 7.1+) - long-tap on launcher icon. You can also long-tap on shortcut to pin to homescreen Fixed downloading add-ons from China Fixed widget color bug Better support for Chinese headwords containing non-Hanzi Fixed Invite Friends (navigation drawer) - use this to send others a Play Store link to install Hanping Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

We’ve made it easier to hear all the Chinese sounds by adding a Soundboard (accessible from the left Navigation drawer) to the Hanping dictionary apps. This is similar to our Hanping SoundBox app (which is going to be slowly phased out). Single-Syllable Sounds All our dictionary apps now include the ability to hear (in one place) the audio for every single-syllable sound. Tones that never occur or are extremely rare are greyed out.

Add notes to any word - this allows you to add your own translations/meanings/comments to any word regardless of whether it is already in a dictionary or not More consistent sorting of tagged items (when you click on a tag in the Tags tab) Removed “tagged items” button from Tags tab (tap on CUSTOM label instead) Better syncing of tagging changes with AnkiDroid (Note: Hanping Lite does not support AnkiDroid export) - deselecting a tag will now deselect it from AnkiDroid (if auto-export is enabled) Improved first-time install experience - nice circular progress bar and better handling of restoring from backups Updated dictionary data (CC-CEDICT, CANTODICT) Several bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Tag from within clipboard notifications (Android N) Improved clipboard notification styling (choose between old Hanping style and new System style in Hanping notification settings) Improved example sentence formatting (bigger font for Chinese characters, nicer styling) Some UI tweaks and bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Added toolbar to homescreen widgets allowing you to star/copy/play words. Also randomization is now better persisted. Clipboard monitoring shows tags (Android N only) Long-press + icon to assign previously used tag Cleaner definition/link coloring Tweaked radicals screen Fixed audio crash Fixed problem where tagging a non-starred word was not updating AnkiDroid (Pro only) Several other bug fixes 6.1.1 increases Hanzi size in example sentences and adds 162 missing erhua audio recordings

Better support for HSK alternative pronunciations Some bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Several bug fixes (mostly concerning improved tagging feature). Available from the Google Play Store.

Much improved starring/tagging system No longer need to star a word to tag it Custom tags (corresponding to the word) shown on main Details screen beneath headword HSK level also shown beneath headword Easier way to assign/create custom tags Can merge two custom tags by renaming one to the same name as an existing tag Added “hsk characters” tags so that you can study (perhaps using homescreen widget) characters for any given HSK level History also captures Popup/Widget clicks etc Added some external links: ChinesePod sentences ctext (premodern Chinese text search) etymology Forvo (pronunciation) Glyph Wiki Chinese StackExchange Fixed some Homescreen Widget refresh issues Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

We’ve teamed up with The Chairman’s Bao (TCB) (an online Chinese newspaper aimed at people learning Mandarin Chinese) to bring more example sentences to Hanping Pro! Although The Chairman’s Bao is aimed at people learning Simplified Mandarin, the example sentences in Hanping include both Simplified & Traditional characters. Naturally, both Pinyin and Zhuyin are also supported. Each sentence is shown with the English translation (Pro version only). Click on the sentence to examine it in more detail:

This is a major update bringing a new beautiful font where 9501 characters can be animated! Single-character headwords are auto-animated when the dictionary entry is shown. Tap on the character to animate again Multi-character headwords can be animated by long-pressing on the appropriate character If you don’t want animations to be auto-triggered, then change the Animation Mode to Plain or Numbered in Hanping’s Chinese Settings 839 animations already unlocked. A further 8662 characters can be unlocked via an in-app purchase Hanping now has a new default font and the new animations match these perfectly (i.

Fixed pinyin umlaut tone-marking bug (Hanping Chinese only) Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data (Hanping Chinese only) Added more external links (Hanping Chinese only) Android N split-screen compatibility Some minor bug fixes Note: 4.6.4 fixes a rare crash when starring words (related to AnkiDroid export). Available from the Google Play Store.

(Pro only) AnkiDroid support - Now you can study your starred words using Anki’s hugely popular Spaced Repetition System (SRS) flashcard software. To set everything up, head over to Hanping Pro’s Settings screen and click on the AnkiDroid item. Main features: Bulk export all of your existing starred words Bulk export all of your starred words with a certain tag (Starred tab / long-press on tag) Auto-export flashcard whenever you star a word Four card types: Hanzi Question - answer is the pronunciation and meaning Phonetic Question - answer is the hanzi and meaning Meaning Question - answer is the hanzi and pronunciation Tones Question (you are given the phonetic without tones) - answer fills in the tones Simp, Trad, Simp [Trad], Trad [Simp] Hanzi coloring-by-tones Tone-marked Pinyin, tone-numbered Pinyin or tone-marked Zhuyin When you modify Hanping settings (e.

(Paid apps only) Homescreen Widget improvements and bug fixes - can now reconfigure widget by clicking on the app icon (top-right corner of widget) and then you will see this: Note: If you have configured the widget to not show the app icon, then you won’t be able to reconfigure it (i.e. you would have to create a new one instead). Proper support for English letters in Chinese headwords (particularly an issue in Cantodict which has words like “唔啱key” (m4 ngaam1 ki1) and “kilo” (ki1 lou2) Updated CC-CEDICT, Cantodict and Unihan 8.

Better Google Translate support Requires Google Translate app to be installed New translate icon appears next to not-in-dictionary search results Click on translate icon to show Google Translate popup which gives translation Then click ‘Replace’ to show the translation in Hanping If you star the sentence, the translation will appear in your starred list You can also translate existing starred words/sentences (those which are not-in-dictionary) Tweaked search results formatting Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Better handwriting recognition More Android Marshmallow support (regarding backups) Minor bug fixes Note: 4.3.2 fixes a lookup bug which only really affects Hanping Cantonese Dictionary. Available from the Google Play Store.

Better system Text-to-Speech support. If enabled in Settings, audio playback alternates between human TTS and system TTS Long-press on Links icon to jump to first link Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is an important bug fix update. Performance bug fix - accidentally introduced a bug in 4.2.0 which made Chinese character searches very slow (noticeable on older devices) Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Improved clipboard notifications Improved External Links section Redesigned navigation drawer Removed lots of notifications Fixed some dict formatting issues Added support for Android Marshmallow Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Better Zhuyin support - If you have selected Zhuyin phonetic, now English/Pinyin search terms more readily assumed to be English than Pinyin. For example, “miner” will match the English word instead of Pinyin 抿耳 mǐn ěr Fixed bug when performing sentence breakdown using ABC CE dictionary - priority was being ignored Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Updated launcher icon to Material Design Updated CC-CEDICT dictionary data Fixed problem regarding importing custom font (sometimes they were greyed out in system file chooser) Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor bug fix update. Fixed bug where ü (u umlaut) in Pinyin was not being recognised properly Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor bug fix update on 4.0.2, 4.0.1 & 4.0 (which brought handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio). Bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor bug fix update on 4.0.1 & 4.0 (which brought handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio). Minor UI tweaks Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a bug fix update on 4.0 (which brought handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio). If you have Hanping Cantonese Dictionary installed: In Hanping Chinese Dictionary, click on the Hanping Cantonese Dictionary app icon (at the bottom of the navigation drawer), to launch that app showing the Cantonese equivalent of whichever word you were currently looking at Some audio fixes for issues on lesser-known devices Other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Happy Chinese New Year! To celebrate, this major update brings Chinese handwriting recognition and syllable-by-syllable audio (of a real native Chinese speaker) as well as a UI overhaul (Material Design). Chinese Handwriting Recognition (Android 4.1 JellyBean and higher) Syllable-by-syllable Audio (over 2000 recordings from a real native Mandarin speaker) (Android 4.1 JellyBean and higher) Material design Added Navigation Drawer - Settings, Add-ons, Backup/Restore etc screens are now available via top-left “hamburger” menu (on the Details screen, simply swipe from the left) Better tabs - swipe left and right on the main Search screen to switch between History, Starred lists and predefined Lists User-friendly naming for predefined lists (e.

This is a bug fix update on 3.8.4. 3.8.6 & 3.8.7 are very minor bug fix updates. Added optional setting for controlling whether usage statistics and/or errors can be automatically reported Some other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Please note: This update is going out as a staged rollout, so if you have not yet received it, then you should receive it some time in the next couple of days. This update covers: Better sorting of search results Several secondary screens updated with new UI and better UX. UI now honours night mode setting About screen - Social networks section (Facebook, Twitter, Google+), Legal notices section, removed “Touch to refresh purchase info” (now in Add-ons screen) Settings screen - separated Chinese display settings into second screen.

This is a very minor bug fix update on 3.7.0. Added Chinese localization for Clipboard Monitoring Some bug fixes and tidying up Available from the Google Play Store.

Clipboard Monitoring (Android 4.0+) - when you copy Chinese characters into the Clipboard you can optionally get a system notification showing the definition. This monitoring can be triggered at system startup (the app now requests “run at startup” permission) or triggered manually (in the action bar overflow menu). Unfortunately, many Android 4.3 devices have a well-known bug preventing realtime Clipboard monitoring from working properly. In this case, you will need to use the Clipboard icon in the notification, to trigger Hanping to read the Clipboard.

This fixes many small bugs in 3.6.4. Fixed: custom font was not being set properly when changed in Settings Fixed: better handling of corrupt dictionary and audio zip files Fixed: NPE when homescreen widget data was being refreshed and drawn at the same time Hanzi font Import… now only allows you to select TTF and OTF files Better localization for common strings like OK and Cancel Some other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

This is a minor update on 3.6.0. Better custom font support (especially on Android 4.4+ KitKat devices). Please read this for more info Added several external links: Google News, iCIBA, Popup Chinese, Tatoeba Fixed Zhuyin bug Some other bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.6.4 & Pro 3.6.4).

Vertical Zhuyin/Bopomofo support Added backspace button to radicals screen Performance improvements Some bug fixes [caption id=“attachment_840” align=“aligncenter” width=“168”] Zhuyin now displays to the right of each character (on the Details screen)[/caption] Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.6.0 & Pro 3.6.1).

This is a small update on 3.5.1 released last week. Custom tone coloring! Fixed left/right swipe bug (bug introduced in 3.5.1) Fixed bug starring words containing spaces Some minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.5.2 & Pro 3.5.2).

Added support for colored pinyin/zhuyin - because in many ways it makes more sense to color-by-tone on the phonetic rather than the hanzi Improved Settings screen - now when you change the chinese display settings you instantly get to see how those changes would appear in the app, by way of sample text Improved Voice Recognition configuration - long-press on microphone icon brings up a dialog where you can specify which language (Chinese, English or System Default) to recognize.

Fixed missing camera icon Fixed bug when running in Turkish locale Several minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite 3.4.3 & Pro 3.4.3). If you like this app, please consider upgrading to the Pro version for extra features and to help support our work.

New Radicals lookup (access it through overflow menu at the top-right of the screen). If you want to enter a character and you know the radical then this new feature will help you. Radicals are grouped by stroke-count and sorted by frequency within each group. Click on the radical to get a list of all the characters that use that radical. Again, this list is grouped by stroke-count (actually, number of strokes not including the radical itself) and sorted by frequency within each group.

Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Faster searching - improved Hanzi, Pinyin and English searches Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Action Bar UI goodness for both Search and Browse screens Search screen: Moved History/Starred/Lists tab bar to top of screen (which is more standard on Android) Search box now remains visible when switching between those tabs. This reduces the chance that you have to press Back an excessive number of times to exit the app. It also keeps the visible state of the app more consistent Browse screen: Moved “action” items (e.

Minor bug fixes for our new free dictionary app. Please don’t forget to leave a rating and/or comment, to help others find Hanping on the Play Store. Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Now that we have recently released a brand new free version of Android’s most popular Chinese dictionary, the old free app has been renamed to Hanping Chinese Classic. If your Android device is running Gingerbread 2.3 (or higher) you will most probably want to install the new Hanping Chinese Dictionary Lite app (and uninstall this Classic app if necessary). Other changes in this update: Changed app icon to silver to help distinguish it from the other Hanping apps (new Lite is blue, Pro is green) Fixed bug (on older Android devices) where sometimes a list search would never not be properly executed (user would just see never-ending progress spinner)

We’ve just released a new free edition of Hanping Chinese Dictionary targeted specifically for Gingerbread (and higher) devices. The old free edition has been renamed to “Hanping Chinese Dict Classic”. How does the new free app differ from the old free app? Dictionary data is included in the application. This means there is no need for an internet connection to download/install the dictionary data on first run. Therefore, the app is now completely self-contained which is important in case you swap (or reformat) your SD card or your dictionary database somehow gets corrupted unexpectedly The new app is much larger (10MB vs 1MB) but this should not be a problem for most people because Google Play Store now supports smart updates (for Gingerbread and higher) and so bandwidth usage should be similar to as before No ads!

Fixed clipboard bug where old clipboard text was being searched on app launch Tweaked the tone colors Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Search history & Settings now auto-imported from Lite version (no earlier than 3.0.5) when upgrade to Pro Some bug fixes This is a bug fix update on the 3.0.5 update a few days ago. Ongoing promotion: 25% off ABC dictionaries (in-app purchases, pro version only) Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro).

Fixes a pre-Froyo bug introduced in the 3.0.5 update (which stopped Starred words working properly) Minor bug fixes Available from the Google Play Store.

Settings and search history now automatically backed up to device storage (SD card) Jelly Bean bug fixes Other bug fixes Ongoing promotion: 25% off ABC dictionaries (in-app purchases, pro version only) Available from the Google Play Store (Lite & Pro). Information about the settings and search history backup file Your settings and search history are automatically backed up to your device storage (usually SD card) whenever you press the back or home key to exit out of Hanping Pro.

Note: 3.0.1 fixes some bugs in 3.0 (which is described in this post). This major update brings in several features that Hanping Pro users have been enjoying for over a year: Starred words - star any word (or even a phrase not in the dictionary) for easy recall later on Clipboard support - copy any Chinese headword to Clipboard to use outside of the app (e.g. in email/sms app) External links (only when you are online) - quickly & conveniently look up a word in one of the many supported 3rd party websites such as YellowBridge (for detailed word information), nciku (for sample sentences), Skritter (for stroke animations & writing practice) and many more Lookup Chinese words within dictionary definitions Lookup characters within headwords Other improvements include:

Pro version now offers superb ABC Chinese-English Dictionary as in-app purchase Added dialog explaining how to get Pro version in China Minor bug fixes Available from the Android Market.

Minor bug fixes Available from the Android Market.

Significant changes: Custom font support Improved dictionary entry formatting (Pro version only) Disabled word prediction when entering search term (now much better for entering Pinyin) Minor bug fixes You now have the possibility to use your own Chinese font instead of the one included by default on your Android device (and without the need to root your phone). Place the TTF font (for example C:\Windows\Fonts\simkai.ttf) on your SD card here:

Added Chinese localization

Supports Move to SD card Minor bug fixes

Fixed bug regarding list items not in dictionary. This bug appeared in 2.5.0-2.5.3. For example, bringing up the hsk6 list would show the same entry (報酬, 报仇,”bao4 chou5″) multiple times due to a caching bug. It was this entry because this was the first entry in hsk6 that does not appear in the dictionary (CC-CEDICT 2.1.1). All later list items not in the dictionary were showing as the “bao4 chou5″ also.

This is a major update: Much better search results - search results are now shown dynamically which means as you scroll down, Hanping searches deeper into the dictionary to find more matches. For example, type “pengyou” (which means friend) and you will see not only the entry for “朋友” (péngyou, friend) but also[gallery link=“file” columns=“8”] for “男朋友” (nánpéngyou, boyfriend) and “女朋友” (nǚpéngyou, girlfriend) History - any successful search you type is now automatically added to your History of searches.

Switched from MobClix to AdMob ad network

Performance bug fix for when decomposing long search strings (was very slow on pre-2.2 devices)

Minor bug fixes

Fixed lock-up on Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 when trying to loads ads when there is no network connection Some speed improvements by no longer partially matching English when it is very short Now, before user ever specifies Pinyin or English, the searching will try to match Pinyin first. Before, if user started the app and typed “wo”, they would get results matching English (for example results about “Wo river”). Now, because Pinyin matching is tried first, the Pinyin matches will come up instead together with an “English” button allowing the user to see English matches.

Fixed bug when attempting to download word lists.

New features: Traditional & Simplified chars can now be displayed together. On the main screen, hit Menu and then you will see the current setting (probably “Simplified”). Press the menu option to cycle through the four different display types: Simplified, Simp [Trad], Traditional, Trad [Simp]. New “What’s new?” dialog automatically shown every time you update to a new version. To view the change details, use the “More…” button which will take you to the appropriate blog entry.

Major update from 1.6.4: Complete overhaul of the UI/UX Lots more built-in word lists (e.g. HSK, most common characters, common idioms) Better handling of situation where search term language is ambiguous – no longer shows the two English/Pinyin buttons on the line below Bug fixes