Chinese Character Lexicon provides extensive information about Chinese characters using a beautiful and intuitive user interface. Looking up a character provides the definition, readings in different East Asian languages, alternate forms of the character, radical identification, stroke order, and encoding information. Upon entering a character or capturing Chinese text with iPhone’s built-in camera, users get all this information at a glance. Additionally, the CC-CEDICT dictionary and Wiktionary are included for looking up Chinese and Japanese words.
Key features:
- Includes virtually all characters used in traditional and simplified Chinese, and Japanese.
- Animated stroke order illustrations make learning to write characters easy.
- Characters captured by iPhone camera are recognized using the app's built-in OCR.*
- Character readings are provided in all major East Asian languages.
- Alternate character forms (i.e., those used in different regions and previous eras) are included.
- Random characters can be brought up by tapping the Random Character icon.
- Both Chinese and Japanese words can be looked up in CC-CEDICT and Wiktionary within the app.
More features coming soon.
*Only Simplified Chinese text is currently supported. Recognition accuracy may vary depending on photo quality.
