- The converter reads the whole sentence, picking each word's Chữ Nôm character from its context - Removed the AI refinement step and its consent prompt; your text is no longer sent to an AI provider - Nôm -> Quốc ngữ conversion prefers modern spellings (ngẫm rather than gẫm) - Better candidate order, now also drawing on the 1895 Đại Nam Quấc âm tự vị - Compound word definitions are kept up to date, with many previously empty ones filled in

- Refreshed the Nôm keyboard to look and feel like your iPhone's own keyboard - The word you're typing now appears in the text field, and Space steps through the Nôm candidates - Smoother, easier-to-browse grid of Nôm candidates - New "Bàn phím Nôm" card in Settings showing how to turn on the Nôm keyboard - Fixed the in-app Nôm input clashing with Vietnamese Telex keyboards and changing your tone marks

- Redesigned character pages with Meanings, Examples and Compounds tabs - Browse one dictionary at a time, with definition counts - Search shows matching characters in a row, with the full entry below - See where a character appears in classical texts - Stroke order plays in place, with one-tap handwriting practice - Component search results shown as an easy-to-scan grid - Choose your own dictionary order: drag dictionaries in Dictionary Preferences to set which ones show first in definitions and search results

- Input panels (handwriting, voice, camera and radicals) now stay pinned at the top while you scroll the results beneath them - Swiping on an input panel no longer scrolls the results behind it - All input panels are now the same size, and the radical grid is roomier and matches the Component tab - Panels end on one clear edge, with a collapse tab underneath that no longer covers characters

- Fixed dictionary switches in Settings: you can now turn individual dictionaries on and off - Fixed a search example that opened a character page with no meaning

- Fixed searches sometimes showing "No Results Found" for words that do have results - Search no longer runs twice when you press Search right after typing - Searching is lighter and faster: details for a result now load when you open it - If you search very quickly, the app now asks you to wait a few seconds instead of showing no results - Fixed Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean pronunciation buttons not playing sound - Cantonese and Japanese pronunciations now read the character correctly

- Added Đại Nam Quấc âm tự vị (1895–1896), a classic Southern Vietnamese dictionary you can switch on or off in settings - Character pages now show the phrases that use each character, along with their Hán Nôm and meanings - Corrected the Hán Nôm spelling of thousands of phrases that were previously missing a character - Fixed phrase pronunciations where syllables were run together

- Hán Nôm punctuation on the built-in keyboard: 。，、？！「」『』《》 and the repetition marks - Fixed rare characters displaying as the wrong symbol - New in the reader: Việt Nam Bách Gia Thi — 107 classical poems from the Lý dynasty to the modern era - Study sessions now keep your place when you leave the screen and come back - On-screen Nôm key grid on iPad for the composer and converter - Added a link to the page for connecting AI assistants to the dictionary - Fixed the converter's tab labels being cut off on narrow screens

- Search by meaning now works — it was failing with an error on every search - Search results no longer blank out or flicker while loading - Character pages no longer jump around as pronunciations and variant forms load - Faster results throughout the dictionary - Fixed buttons in the character panel — share, components, phiên thiết and add-to-flashcards — that opened behind the panel and looked broken - Fixed the enlarged view of historical glyph forms, which appeared behind other controls and could only be closed by tapping around it - Fixed links that open outside the app, including the Unicode reference and sharing to other apps - Fixed a missing label in French and Chinese when adding a character to a deck - Fixed characters showing an uncommon definition instead of their main meaning - Restored dictionary entries that were being left out for some characters

- Fixed texts in the reader sometimes failing to open or coming up blank - Texts now download for offline reading gradually in the background, instead of competing with the text you're actually reading

- The Nôm input switch (喃) now sits beside each text box instead of in the header - Bé Na now fills the screen on phones, with the question box always above the keyboard - Fixed the page scrolling behind the assistant on phones - Jump straight to any page — the page number in the reader's toolbars is now a box you can type into - The jump control is in both the top and bottom toolbars, so you no longer scroll a whole page to reach it - New 200 and 500 câu per page options for long texts - The reader's top toolbar now shows the current page on phones instead of hiding it - The Nôm keyboard switch (喃) now sits to the right of every search box, in the same spot everywhere

- Added a GitHub link in Profile → More, for our open-source Hán Nôm tools - Improved reliability when the app loads your offline dictionary at startup - Behind-the-scenes maintenance and performance work

- Corrected the character count on the welcome screens to reflect the full 27,900+ character dictionary - Minor fixes and under-the-hood improvements

- Tap a number on the candidate bar to pick a character — fixed on Android keyboards - Soạn Nôm composer now honors your chosen calligraphy font (Khải Thư, Lệ Thư, Triện, etc.) instead of falling back to Song style

- Draw Chữ Nôm characters with your finger using the new pencil key on the system keyboard - Keyboard now learns from your typing — characters you pick most appear first over time - New font size slider on the Convert page for Latin↔Nôm, Soạn Nôm, and Trad↔Simp - Soạn Nôm composer keeps your text when you switch to another page and come back - Export your personalization data as JSON from the profile page - Restored Soạn Nôm character size that became too small in the previous version

- The Nôm keyboard now gives tactile feedback as you type - The Nôm keyboard now matches the look and feel of the native iOS keyboard - Rare Hán Nôm characters no longer appear as empty boxes in the keyboard's suggestions, and the keyboard now offers the full set of candidates - The app is significantly smaller to download and install

- New Nôm keyboard: type Chữ Nôm in any app — Messages, Notes, Safari and more — using familiar Telex typing - Works fully offline with no special permissions; the dictionary is built in - Smart candidate bar with ranked suggestions — tap the arrow to see more; includes shift, numbers and symbols - Rare Hán Nôm characters now display correctly instead of empty boxes - Optional one-tap setup to use Nôm fonts in other apps like Pages, Keynote, Numbers and Mail

- Camera OCR is far more accurate now, especially for rare Nôm characters - New "Variant forms (Dị thể)" section on character pages — tap a related variant to view it - Flashcard deck lists redesigned as a grid: see more characters at once, with a quick character preview on tap - Studying the by-grade and by-theme decks now counts toward your daily streak - Fixed broken and split entries in the Countries and Vietnamese Ethnic Groups decks - Improved the Nôm text editor: proper text selection, copy/paste, and undo/redo - Smoother light/dark/system theme switching, and pages now open scrolled to the top

- Fixed Nôm IME tone placement when typing words like huấn, tuần, xuân, huệ, khuếch - Added 7 short Catholic prayers (Kinh Lạy Cha, Kinh Kính Mừng, Kinh Sáng Danh, Kinh Tin Kính, and more) to the Reader library

- New reader texts: 5 historical Truyện Kiều editions (1866–1902), Hồ Xuân Hương poems, and Chinh Phụ Ngâm Khúc - Library sidebar: live search filter, compact view toggle, color-coded categories, auto-expand on selection - Handwriting: candidate row now stays after you pick a character — tap multiple alternatives to compare - Radical search stays open and builds up multi-character queries instead of replacing - Collapsible reading-type sections on character pages

- Much better Hán Nôm character recognition in photos and handwriting, especially for rare Nôm characters - Redesigned search mode picker on mobile — easier to switch between input modes - Component search tab on mobile redesigned to match the main search layout for a cleaner, more consistent experience - Keyboard no longer pops up when tapping the search input in handwriting / voice / camera / radical modes - Variant characters now show pronunciations and a "Biến thể của …" reference to their canonical form

- New + Unihan toggle in radical and component search — find ~89K more CJK characters beyond the curated dictionary - Radical search now uses residual stroke counts (strokes after the radical) - Type any second component you remember to quickly narrow down a long list of results - Radical picker remembers your place — accidentally tapping outside no longer resets your selection - Personalized IME — characters you type often now float to the top of the candidate list - Stroke-count buttons in the radical picker render with consistent layout regardless of digit count

- Meanings and examples now organized by pronunciation — one card per reading (e.g. 木 mộc / mọc / mộc / mục) - Added Giúp Đọc Nôm và Hán Việt (Trần Văn Kiệm) — 55,000 new entries plus 156 rare Nôm characters - Added Tự Điển Chữ Nôm Dẫn Giải (Nguyễn Quang Hồng) — 19,000 new entries with classical citations and over 2,000 new characters - Cleaner meaning layout: one source badge per dictionary instead of repeating, with definitions properly numbered - Component search now suggests sub-components when a complex character has no direct match (e.g. 陽 → 阝 + 昜) - Mobile component search: handwriting and radical chart now open inline below the input — one less tap - Dictionary preferences simplified from 16 toggles to 11 - Various polish: better display on narrow phones, alt-input buttons hidden on tabs where they don't apply, fixed search examples missing classical text - Nôm keyboard (Soạn Nôm) now covers ~1,500 more rare characters

- Component search (Ghép bộ): type or paste any character as a search component, not just the 214 Kangxi radicals — handwriting input added too - Tap any character to see how it was formed: new A1–G2 classification chip on character pages with explanations from Nguyễn Quốc Hùng's Tự Điển Chữ Nôm Dẫn Giải - Pick which dictionaries to show: new Settings panel lets you turn off sources you don't use (Thiều Chửu, Trần Văn Chánh, Viện Hán Nôm, nomfoundation, …) - Component picker redesigned: bigger cells with Hán Việt name under each radical, selected components stay highlighted - French translation restored (accent marks were missing on FAQ and other long text)

- Photo OCR now recognizes Hán Nôm manuscripts with much higher accuracy - Added 3,500+ characters including rare Nôm-specific glyphs - Camera OCR suggests variant character alternates when applicable - Rare Nôm characters (~1,000+ Nôm-specific glyphs) now display and search correctly across all features - Quốc Ngữ - Nôm converter handles rare Nôm character input properly - Tap-to-lookup now works for all CJK extension characters in text and example phrases