- New Radicals lookup (access it through overflow menu at the top-right of the screen). If you want to enter a character and you know the radical then this new feature will help you. Radicals are grouped by stroke-count and sorted by frequency within each group. Click on the radical to get a list of all the characters that use that radical. Again, this list is grouped by stroke-count (actually, number of strokes not including the radical itself) and sorted by frequency within each group. Try long-pressing on radicals or characters to jump straight to the Browse screen
- Improved sentence decomposition – better handling of punctuation etc
- Added concept of simple vs. complex headword forms. Some words are termed “complex” maybe because a syllable has multiple pronunciations or multiple characters. Such words are shown on the Details screen with a + icon in the top right. Hit that to see the complex form of the headword
- List items only appear once – so a list of 100 words actually appears as 100 items instead of something like 106! This was caused by a dictionary containing the same word multiple times
- Details screen now shows even more related dictionary entries. Side note: we’ve been showing entries across all dictionaries on one page since 2011
- Left/right paging on Details screen – explore neighbouring words in the dictionary (note: screenshot below taken from Pro version with ABC dictionary in-app purchase)
- External Links: on first use, Hanping now informs you that these third party links use the internet connection and may include advertisements (which we do not benefit from)
- External Links: now includes a link to a website showing stroke animations – this is an external website and so includes advertising (which we do not benefit from)
- External Links: added Google Image search and HanziCraft amongst others
- Added support for Samsung’s Multi-Window (only on applicable devices)
- Generate vocab sheet from starred list – this allows you to share a starred list as text using Android’s powerful Share feature. To access this feature, go to the Starred tab on the main Search screen and long-press on one of the starred lists
- Some new Hanzi colorings – introducing the brand new “hanping” coloring! This coloring uses the same beautiful colors as “dummit” but assigns them to the tones in a different way. We’ve also added “speccy” coloring inspired by the old ZX Spectrum. The “hanping” coloring is:
- Tone 1 (high, flat tone) – blue – think of a flat blue lake, or a blue sky
- Tone 2 (rising tone) – green – think of green grass growing!
- Tone 3 (low, falling-rising tone) – orange – (we chose this one for aesthetic reasons)
- Tone 4 (falling tone) – red – think of someone giving an angry command
- Several bug fixes
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