Chinese Characters 汉字

Name: Chinese Characters 汉字
Rating: 4.7 (228 reviews)
Author: YOYASOFT LLC

Read and write characters

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

228 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

YOYASOFT LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

128.8
MB

- Writing instructions for nearly 3000 Chinese characters - Covers all and more characters than required in the official Chinese Proficiency Examinations (HSK levels 1 to 6), and required in AP Chinese exams administered by the U.S. College Board. - Free Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Chinese text for easy translation, which is also free. - Free download of English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionaries for quick lookup - Links to the Chinese edition of renowned news sites such as New York Times, BBC and Reuters, with free Pinyin annotation to assist you read new words.

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

228 Ratings

Awesome
07/31/2022

srevansensei
This is a awesome app. It’s everything I wanted. Tells you stroke order, meanings and even example words! This is so huge in language development. Honestly the price for all the characters that they provide makes it worth the purchase if/when you get past the free ones. Great job, guys. Next make one for Japanese! 🤌🏽🙏🏼
Awesome
07/31/2022

srevansensei

This is a awesome app. It’s everything I wanted. Tells you stroke order, meanings and even example words! This is so huge in language development. Honestly the price for all the characters that they provide makes it worth the purchase if/when you get past the free ones. Great job, guys. Next make one for Japanese! 🤌🏽🙏🏼
Great. App, but...
10/10/2020

Raypatt
This app has such great potential, but when trying to trace the characters, using the Apple Pencil or finger, the app tries to force the lines of the trace to snap to the character on the screen that it hinders the flow of the trace lines and causes them to go crazy. The lines, when tracing, will stop in the middle of tracing for no reason and will cause them to stretch across the screen and just act wacky in general. It’s virtually unusable. Also, the character grid should be able to zoom in or out. The grid with characters is too small with no way to change size. I would gladly pay the $8.99 for the advanced features when this is fixed. Copying/tracing characters should be smooth and not such a frustrating experience.

Developer Response
Hi sorry to learn of your frustrations with the app. Could you update your comment with a few example characters you found difficult to trace? That would help us identify the issue and improve the app.
Great. App, but...
10/10/2020

Raypatt

This app has such great potential, but when trying to trace the characters, using the Apple Pencil or finger, the app tries to force the lines of the trace to snap to the character on the screen that it hinders the flow of the trace lines and causes them to go crazy. The lines, when tracing, will stop in the middle of tracing for no reason and will cause them to stretch across the screen and just act wacky in general. It’s virtually unusable. Also, the character grid should be able to zoom in or out. The grid with characters is too small with no way to change size. I would gladly pay the $8.99 for the advanced features when this is fixed. Copying/tracing characters should be smooth and not such a frustrating experience.
Developer Response 11/01/2020
Hi sorry to learn of your frustrations with the app. Could you update your comment with a few example characters you found difficult to trace? That would help us identify the issue and improve the app.
Tracing feature needs improvement
04/14/2023

MeliJ2023
The fonts in the tracing feature are based on Chinese Kaishu calligraphy structure, which makes it harder to trace and be understood by beginners. Just imagine how much harder it is to trace English alphabets in cursive than in Arial fonts…I think this is why the tracing goes out of control at times for all characters I tried. Should provide an alternative where users can trace characters with simple stroke fonts.
Tracing feature needs improvement
04/14/2023

MeliJ2023

The fonts in the tracing feature are based on Chinese Kaishu calligraphy structure, which makes it harder to trace and be understood by beginners. Just imagine how much harder it is to trace English alphabets in cursive than in Arial fonts…I think this is why the tracing goes out of control at times for all characters I tried. Should provide an alternative where users can trace characters with simple stroke fonts.
A Couple of Features Missing
05/09/2024

Sukithedawg
I really like the fact that this app provides the historical development of most characters. However, the only way I have found to save characters is in the journal, but it only gives you information on the stroke order and not the pronunciation or Pinyin. There’s a sound icon in the journal, but it doesn’t work.
A Couple of Features Missing
05/09/2024

Sukithedawg

I really like the fact that this app provides the historical development of most characters. However, the only way I have found to save characters is in the journal, but it only gives you information on the stroke order and not the pronunciation or Pinyin. There’s a sound icon in the journal, but it doesn’t work.