nciku Chinese Dictionary
By Beijing DFHL Company
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Description
The nciku Chinese dictionary lets you look up Chinese and English words to see translations, pinyin, examples and stroke order animations, as well as listen to audio pronunciations of words and examples.
Features include:
* Over 163,000 entries, including 76,000 Chinese and 77,000 English words and phrases. Over 35,000 of our Chinese definitions for English words also have matching English definitions, to help you see which translation corresponds to which meaning of a word. If the word you're looking for isn't in our app, you can connect to nciku.com's online database of over 3 million entries.
* Search for an English or Chinese word, its meaning or (for Chinese words) its pinyin, or do an example search to find all examples containing that word. Or use our new Sentence Mode to paste a Chinese or English sentence then tap on a word to see its meaning.
* Native-speaker audio recordings for over 50,000 Chinese and 25,000 English entries, and TTS recordings of all Chinese and English examples and their pronunciations [audio pronunciation requires internet connection]
* Stroke order animations and definitions for all Chinese characters in a word, or links to longer words containing a single character.
* Use the nciku Handwriting tool to draw Chinese characters you don’t recognize with your finger [needs an internet connection]
* Use flashcards and multiple-choice quizzes to test yourself on words you've looked up or vocabulary from the HSK and CET exams.
* Offline application: except for the handwriting and audio pronunciation as noted above, the app doesn't require an internet connection to use
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices
What's New in Version 3.2
* Added a Sentence Mode feature - if your search term contains multiple words and doesn't have any exact matches, you can tap on an English word or the first character of a Chinese word to see that word's meaning
* Added 8 pre-built vocab lists based on the required vocabulary for different levels of the HSK and CET exams.
Changes in other recent updates:
Version 3.1.1: added TTS audio for all 95,000 English and Chinese examples and their meanings, added a 'lookup' button when you select text to quickly search for its meaning
Version 3.1: added native iPad UI; added native speaker audio for over 50,000 Chinese entries and over 25,000 English entries (requires internet connection)
Version 3.0.1: added higher-resolution images for devices with Retina Displays; improved UI in various ways
Version 3.0: added many features including example search, stroke order animations, handwriting, flashcards and memorization tests
Customer Reviews
Great App for iPhone 4S
Works just like the website. Great for learning and practicing. Very helpful.
Not very useful
This app is ok as a dictionary I guess but I thought I would be able to access my nciku.com word list and test myself on my words on the go. It turns out I can't. This being the case, I wish I hadn't bought this app. It doesn't have 1/10 the functions of the website.
Why can't I write on the bottom half of the character box??
The app works well and gives good translations, but when I try to write a character in the handwriting box the bottom half doesn't recognize characters. At best it's two stars because of this huge flaw in the software. For some reason, the writing recognition works just fine on my iPhone. Glitch only works with my iPad. LAME.
- $7.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Oct 28, 2011
- Version: 3.2
- Size: 154 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Beijing DFHL Company
- © 2011 nciku
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
