Description
Handwritten character recognition and dictionary for simplified and traditional Chinese.* New: Version 2.0 with redesigned UI and full support for tablets
* New: Text to speech support. Just install the eSpeak TTS engine and get audio pronunciation for hanzi (free) or compounds (premium only).
Premium features available: search by reading/meaning, compound search, favorites and history. You can upgrade form within the application (Settings->Upgrade to premium), no need to download a separate application.
Premium upgrade price: around $3.99 (varies slightly by location/exchange rate. Press the 'Upgrade' button to display the Android Market dialog with the current price).
Just draw a character, tap 'Recognize' and select a candidate to display character reading, meaning, radical and hear audio pronunciation . Search by reading or meaning, as well as compound search also available (premium only). Characters/compounds you view are automatically saved to history and can be marked as favorite (premium only).
Follow proper, or at least basic (left to right, top to bottom, horizontal before vertical, etc.), stroke order for best results.
Features:
* Full tablet support (v2.0)
* Audio pronunciation for hanzi and compounds (uses the eSpeak text-to-speech engine)
* Search on stroke -- recognition candidates are displayed automatically as you draw
* Adjustable candidates font size
* Adjustable drawing pen size and color
* Shake to delete stroke/clear all
* Favorites and history (premium only)
* Favorites Excel (CSV) and Anki export (premium only)
* Search by reading and meaning (premium only)
* Compound search (premium only)
* Supports both traditional and simplified Chinese
* Works offline (Internet connections is only required to download resources on first run).
* Integrated character database with more than 70,000 entries
* Stroke annotation
* Undo (removes last stroke)
* Pinyin and Jyutping readings
* Radical display
* Character decomposition into components
* Display character component details
* Copy and append to clipboard
Not a handwriting input method (IME).
Ad-supported (ads are not displayed if you upgrade to premium).
Version 2.0 requires Android 2.1 and later. Earlier Android versions can use version 1.7.2.
Email me for bug reports and feature requests:
hanzi.recognizer@gmail.com
Follow me on Twitter for latest updates: @kapitanpetko
http://twitter.com/kapitanpetko
Release announcements and detailed explanation of new features on my blog:
http://nelenkov.blogspot.jp/search/label/hanzi-recognizer
Google+ page:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116773495639948602415
Sethanon
Apr 7, 2012 9:28:16 PM
great!,but... google done it better
D.vil
Apr 6, 2012 3:31:22 AM
Not bad This nice but still got some word are missing....
Joberose
Apr 2, 2012 12:44:09 PM
Ridiculously bad After having used a dozen of different handwriting input system over the years, at least half of them intended for asian languages even on phones with processors as slow as <100Mhz I was really looking forward to trying "Hanzi recognizer". I was really disappointed and annoyed by this app: It loads more than a hundred megbytes in order to achieve way less than other recognizers, most notably "Pleco Dictionary" and even fails to recognize easy chars such as "着" unless strict stroke order is followed. Moreover it is slow and often gives very, very false guesses... Save your time and get something real such as: gpen, Hanping Pro or Pleco... P.S. Tested on Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1
Eva
Mar 22, 2012 8:21:19 AM
Exactly what a student needs
C
Mar 1, 2012 11:30:35 PM
Nice. Wish you save handwritng and strokes. This would good for teaching kids how to write.
abby
Feb 20, 2012 10:23:25 AM
If u have trouble with stroke order.. Get lianghao cidian, where u can look up characters by radical. A great supplement to this app. Love this tho! So much! Will pay for full version soon thank u!
Vaughan
Feb 12, 2012 11:32:20 AM
Hanzi Recognizer
Graham
Feb 6, 2012 11:32:19 AM
Stroke order Have you considered providing the stroke order for each character? Thanks for an interesting and useful app.
Elias
Jan 28, 2012 12:42:07 PM
Very good! It works pretty well, but you need to know the exact order of strokes. Otherwise the program fails to recognize your drawing as an image. Yet it helps to train you written ability. One more drawback is that it is impossible to draw two-part complex Chinese word. Also translation is quite complicated when one Chinese symbol has several pronounciation.
mellowmelon
Jan 2, 2012 9:40:04 AM
Amazing app! This was so useful on my recently trip to china! And I bought the upgrade, had a question and got a helpful reply immediately. Would recommend this to anyone learning or travelling in china!