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Android Apps > Productivity > Chaozhuyin
App profile & analytics · Productivity · Data updated 2026-10-29
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Chaozhuyin

by Chih Chao Yu · Free · Version 3.5.6

“Chaozhuyin is a Chinese phonetic symbol keyboard.” the developer's tagline

Availability On Google Play since January 2012
Rating on Google Play
3.94/5
27,858 ratings
At a glance AppBrain's trailer of this app, made from our data
Rating
3.94
27,858 reviews
Total installs
3.2
million
Installs, last 30 days
2.7
thousand
Best rank
–
not in the top lists
Last updated
October 21, 2026
3.5.6
AppBrain's verdict EstablishedPopular

Chaozhuyin is popular, with 3.2 million installs. Users are divided: 3.9 stars from 27,858 ratings.

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Chaozhuyin is made and published by Chih Chao Yu. AppBrain is an independent app data site and isn't affiliated with Chih Chao Yu. The app name, icon, screenshots and description belong to Chih Chao Yu and are shown as published on Google Play.

About Chaozhuyin

Chaozhuyin is a productivity app developed by Chih Chao Yu.

Download Statistics

Chaozhuyin has been downloaded 3.2 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 2.7 thousand times.

User Ratings

Chaozhuyin is rated 3.94 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 28 thousand ratings.

App Information

Chaozhuyin is freely available from Google Play. The APK size is 63.26 MB. The latest APK version available is 3.5.6. The last update was on October 21, 2026.

Technical Requirements

Chaozhuyin requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The APK has been available on Google Play since January 2012.

Description by Chih Chao Yu (from Google Play)
Chaozhuyin is a Chinese phonetic symbol Input Method (Bopomofo IME). It is very easy to use with zero learning curve.

Features:
● To input a Chinese phrase, you only need to input the first phonetic symbol of each word, and you can add any remain symbols arbitrarily to narrow down the candidates you may want.
● Provide several kinds of skins and colors of the soft keyboard. Keyboard and font size can be adjusted freely.
● Proximity correction: it'll smartly guess what word or phrase you want to input from neighbor keys.
● Swiping keyboard.
● English input method.
● Keyboard fan-shaped selector.
● Candidate selection dropdown.
● "Smart proximity correction" feature.
● You can remove your user phrase now.
● Eten keyboard layout.
● Up/down/left/right arrow keys, and voice recognition button.
● Move the system phrase database file to and from SD card.
● Backup/restore user phrase by yourself.
● With great functionality of word or phrase guessing.
● Support mobile and tablet devices, support hard keyboard.
● Able to import Chinese names in your contacts.
● Able to output Simplified Chinese.
● Support Android 4+.

This version can be used for free for 28 days with full functions. During the trial period, there will be a banner ads at the bottom of the setting screen. After the trial period, the following functions will be closed:
● Swiping keyboard.
● Keyboard fan-shaped selector.
● Candidate selection dropdown.
● Word or phrase guessing.
● "Smart proximity correction" feature.
● English input method.
● Up/down/left/right arrow keys.
● Voice recognition button.
● Import Chinese names in your contacts.
● Move the system phrase database file to and from SD card.
● Backup/restore user phrase by yourself.
● Remove your user phrase.

Recent changes:
Ver 3.5.6:
- Rare characters: about 52,000 rare characters added from CNS11643 (e.g. 𡘙 in 𡘙師傅, 𩵚 in 𩵚魠魚羹). See the user guide for details.
- Fixed tapping an empty spot after swiping the candidate bar opening the settings screen on some phones.
- When the phone has no usable system speech recognizer, voice input explains why and suggests turning on 使用 OpenAI 辨識引擎.
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More data about Chaozhuyin

Price Free
Total installs 3.2 million
Recent installs 2.7 thousand
Rating 3.94 based on 28 thousand ratings
Ranking Not ranked
Version 3.5.6
App size 63.3 MB
Number of libraries 20
Designed for Android 4.4+
Suitable for Everyone
Ads Contains ads

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Screenshots

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Google Play Rating history and histogram

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Installs over time

Chaozhuyin has been installed 3.2 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 88 installs per day.

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Developer information for Chih Chao Yu

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chaozhuyin@gmail.com

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Comments on Chaozhuyin for Android

★★★★☆ Olivier Bernardi · Feb 14, 2018
Hi, it's a very responsive app, and it has a good design. One missing feature is to have the candidates in simplified Chinese. It already outputs to simplified, but the candidates are in traditional instead. If it had that feature, I could recommend it to everyone, buy it and put 5 stars! Good job overall.
★★★★★ David Chang · Apr 28, 2016
Pls make the keyboard size adjustable both height and width
★★★★☆ Joseph Tzeng · May 6, 2016
Need quicker access to question mark when using english keyboard... autocorrect would be nice too
★☆☆☆☆ CJ BlueSky · Jun 28, 2022
Can't install update on S22 Ultra. And after typing I have to close keyboard to send messages out. It's really annoying!
★☆☆☆☆ s h · Jan 22, 2023
Zuyin inout with simplified chinese output, stupid is what stupid does

Google Play Rankings for Chaozhuyin

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Technologies used by Chaozhuyin

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