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Android Apps > Books & Reference > Hanzi Recognizer
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Hanzi Recognizer

2.6.1
Nikolay Elenkov
2.00
402 reviews
50,000+
Downloads
Free

Handwriting recognition and dictionary for simplified and traditional Chinese.

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About Hanzi Recognizer

Hanzi Recognizer was a books & reference app developed by Nikolay Elenkov. It was removed from Google Play Feb 15, 2025 and is no longer available for download.

Download Statistics

Hanzi Recognizer had been downloaded 97 thousand times before it became unavailable.

User Ratings

Hanzi Recognizer was rated 2.00 out of 5 stars, based on 400 ratings.

App Information

Hanzi Recognizer was free to download. The APK download size was 5.79 MB. The last available version was 2.6.1. The last update was on May 3, 2020.

Technical Requirements

Hanzi Recognizer required Android 5.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play August 2010.

Description
Handwritten character recognition and dictionary for simplified and traditional Chinese.

* New: Support for Anki 2.0 (AnkiDroid)
* 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

Recent changes:
* Added up button to details screen
* Bug fixes
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More data about Hanzi Recognizer

Price Free to download
Total downloads 97 thousand
Rating 2.00 based on 400 ratings
Version 2.6.1
APK size 5.79 MB
Number of libraries 26
Designed for Android 5.0+
Suitable for Everyone
Ads Contains ads

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Downloads over time

Hanzi Recognizer has been downloaded 97 thousand times.

Changelog of Hanzi Recognizer

  • Feb 15, 2025Unpublished
  • May 3, 2020UpdateVersion 2.6.1
  • Apr 7, 2020UpdateVersion 2.6.0
  • Mar 28, 2020UpdateVersion 2.6.0
  • Dec 29, 2016UpdateVersion 2.5.7
  • May 26, 2015UpdateVersion 2.5.6
  • Jan 23, 2015UpdateVersion 2.5.5
  • Jan 18, 2015UpdateVersion 2.5
  • Aug 9, 2013UpdateVersion 2.4
  • Jun 18, 2013Installs50,000+ installs
  • Sep 5, 2012UpdateVersion 2.3
  • Jun 10, 2012UpdateVersion 2.2
  • Jan 25, 2012UpdateVersion 2.1
  • Dec 9, 2011UpdateVersion 2.0
  • Aug 7, 2011UpdateVersion 1.7.2
  • Jul 18, 2011UpdateVersion 1.7.1
  • Jul 10, 2011UpdateVersion 1.7
  • Jun 7, 2011UpdateVersion 1.6.1
  • May 29, 2011UpdateVersion 1.6
  • May 16, 2011UpdateVersion 1.5.2
  • May 11, 2011UpdateVersion 1.5.1
  • May 5, 2011UpdateVersion 1.5
  • Apr 29, 2011Installs10,000+ installs
  • Feb 19, 2011UpdateVersion 1.4
  • Jan 26, 2011UpdateVersion 1.3.5
  • Jan 24, 2011UpdateVersion 1.3.4
  • Jan 14, 2011Installs5,000+ installs
  • Dec 23, 2010CategoryMoved from Unknown (Reference) to Books & Reference
  • Dec 17, 2010UpdateVersion 1.3.3
  • Dec 15, 2010UpdateVersion 1.3.2
  • Nov 26, 2010UpdateVersion 1.3.1
  • Oct 29, 2010UpdateVersion 1.3
  • Oct 14, 2010UpdateVersion 1.2.2
  • Sep 8, 2010UpdateVersion 1.2.1
  • Sep 3, 2010UpdateVersion 1.2
  • Aug 30, 2010Installs1,000+ installs
  • Aug 26, 2010UpdateVersion 1.1.3
  • Aug 18, 2010UpdateVersion 1.1.2
  • Aug 17, 2010Installs500+ installs
  • Aug 15, 2010UpdateVersion 1.1.1
  • Aug 13, 2010UpdateVersion 1.1
  • Aug 4, 2010Installs100+ installs
  • Aug 3, 2010Installs50+ installs
  • Aug 1, 2010New AppVersion 1.0 in Reference for Free
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Developer information for Nikolay Elenkov

Nikolay Elenkov

Website

Japan
101--0021 Tokyo-to, Chiyoda-ku, Soto Kanda 4-14-1
Akihabara UDX Building 5F MBE 173

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Comments on Hanzi Recognizer for Android

★★★★★ Good. Except speech The character recognition is pretty good, except for the annoying fact that it expects correct stroke order, often a problem for beginners like me. But the spoken Chinese is just wrong almost always - weird.
★★★★★ If u have trouble with stroke order. Get Langham 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!
★★★★★ 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 pronunciation.
★★☆☆☆ Recognition is terrible if you don't have the stroke order exactly right. It's quicker to just guess the pinyin in another program.
★★☆☆☆ Google has better tools. This is okay, but requires strokes to be in the right order This app charges for what you can get from Google for free. Download google translator with Google's Chinese input tool (forget what it's called) and you'll have a much better experience. Old review: I downloaded this because it's easier than using a computer for characters don't know and easier than lugging around the dictionary. Unfortunately my Heinz isn't so great, so when I do the wrong stroke order I get pretty frustrated. Besides that it's great.
★★☆☆☆ 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 "Heinz recognizer". I was really disappointed and annoyed by this app: It loads more than a hundred megabytes 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

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Hanzi Recognizer is requesting 8 permissions and is using 27 libraries.

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view network connections, full network access, Google Play billing service, receive data from Internet
Storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
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