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HanYou, your Chinese learning companion. The app you need to become fluent in Mandarin or Cantonese
HanYou is an offline Chinese dictionary, translator and optical recognizer designed to help you read, speak and learn Chinese.
I never did too much on it, it does not offer much. Download ChineseSkill instead if you want to learn Chinese.
Not worth the money at all. Don’t buy
2022-06-24
by ChineseStudent9989
You can get all of the features of HanYou in other apps that won’t cost you. A review from two years ago complains about how the translator won’t accurately translate sentences, and the developers even responded and said they were going to get it fixed. It’s been two years and the translator still does not work. Pleco is a much better dictionary and just about every function of HanYou has a better, free counterpart. Even the camera translator that is its supposed claim to fame is worse than Wechat’s camera translator. Final thought: don’t waste your money like I did on this mediocre app.
Does not work
2022-07-25
by Ccc3ccc
HanYou is not worth the money. I thought the concept of using your camera would be great. First try though it kept giving multiple options over and over for the same writing. No specific translation. Now it doesn't give any translation with the camera and the hand written translation (you draw it in) gave a completely different translation from another app I have. The other app was free and it works better.
Lost in China
2022-08-26
by Unhelpful, Still
HanYou is completely useless for one with no knowledge of Chinese characters trying to interpret a string of characters. I've not been able to get it to translate anything correctly, even a string of characters for which I know the translation.
This is an excellent idea, but as currently designed isn't very useful. It only recognizes and translates a single character at a time, which given the fact that most words and concepts in chinese are made up of two or more characters that may or may not be related to the individual characters, renders HanYou fairly useless compared to the translation ability of, say, Google Translate. Also, the camera often misreads characters, especially if they're in anything other than a very standard, typed font.
If HanYou could be improved by: (1) adding recognition of full sentences or phrases and translating all of it together, and (2) improving recognition of characters, HanYou would blow other translation apps out of the water.
privacy violation
2022-10-28
by P Dill E
Photos are accessible without explicit permission.
Nice, but...
2022-11-29
by AppleAntDude
... too many updates.
Impressive!
2022-12-30
by Ahikanana
OCR is always a tricky thing. HanYou does a pretty bang up job, but has difficulty with certain things such as text and background contrast, stylized text such as calligraphy font and extra thick fonts, and characters with lots of strokes. One such example is 臺灣. It performs best on plain text containing thin lines and when live detection is turned off. You must also have very steady hands and sufficient light when taking snapshots. I wish it were possible for the camera's flash to function while using it either as a flash or as a flashlight. However, you can get around this by taking a picture using the camera app and then accessing the camera roll from HanYou.
Unlike another reviewer's comment, I did find that HanYou is capable of recognizing terms consisting of two or more characters that are compounded. It can read vertically as well.
All in all I do recommend HanYou and look forward to further improvements. One thing I would like to see is the ability to have spoken audio for the read text.
Ok
2023-01-31
by I.can.c.u
I suggest HanYou Can include some synonyms in Chinese and more details about the definition. Other wise great!
Impressive, and close to vital when traveling in China
Awesome except for one thing
2023-04-02
by Ln342000
My only complaint is that the text analyzer glitches once you go past a certain number of lines/characters. Same problem with Yomiwa. Please fix, otherwise great!
Super handy and easy to use!
2023-05-04
by Costa Rica Backpacker
I am a previous user of Yomiwa (the Japanese counterpart of this app), which I already loved. This new app is as handy and great for well-needed on-the-fly translation. I am traveling to Shanghai next month and will for sure use it a lot!
Best app ever for Chinese/ Mandarin help
2023-06-04
by Cajed4
I’m a student and I’ve been struggling trying to learn Chinese while studying other classes. Quite honestly the best app I’ve ever used and it does crash but barely and it found every character I needed to find. I will be buying the unlimited and I believe you should too. The one time fee is definitely worth and helping the developers for their great work.
Really helped me save time and actually has a working camera function. Very nice.
This app is helpful for learning chinese. Very easy to use and helped me a lot.
2023-10-09
by Jballer22
Translating feature is accurate
Amazing
2023-11-09
by Sami Sturm
I love HanYou, it helps very much! I get to confirm when I do my chinese homework and I’m finally glad I found something free to help translate using a photo!!!
Very useful app to learn Chinese
2023-12-11
by LolooKyotoPool
this app really helps me increase my vocab in Chinese. Not only I learn the meaning of new words, but I get the pronunciation too. Flash cards are useful too
I love HanYou and recommend to all my friends. There was a bug last week and after reaching out to the developers they responded immediately and fixed it!
Is HanYou Safe? 🙏
Yes. HanYou - Chinese Dictionary is quiet safe to use but use with caution. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 157 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.6/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for HanYou Is 35.7/100.
Is HanYou Legit? 💯
Yes. HanYou - Chinese Dictionary is legit, but not 100% legit to us. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 157 HanYou - Chinese Dictionary User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for HanYou Is 54.7/100..
HanYou - Chinese Dictionary works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.
Payments 💸
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HanYou Full
$24.99
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Features
HanYou is an offline Chinese dictionary, translator and optical recognizer designed to help you read, speak and learn Chinese.
HanYou's powerful offline Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine can recognize more than 13 000 Chinese characters in your pictures or with your device camera.
HanYou's dictionary is extensive, fast, and delivers Chinese word details into more than 20 target languages.
Unique social feature: whenever you have trouble with some Chinese, you can always ask a question or post a picture on the HanYou wall.