2023.10
2023-09-30
- Text to speech: user can select Chinese voice (standard, Cantonese, etc.)
See Settings > Accessibility > Spoken content > Voices > Chinese for available voices, then fast switch Chinese voice inside the app.
- Tested for iOS 17.
- Couvreur demo: additional characters.
2023.08
2023-08-08
- Couvreur demo: additional views (recent / rare / by Kangxi radical).
- User can select Chinese font.
2023.06
2023-06-11
- Couvreur dictionary (demo): direct access to characters with multiple examples.
- Lookup presentation clarified in case of multiple dictionaries.
2023
2023-01-08
- Added: character series (Kangxi, etymology) with a focus on immediate access to all series available for the current character.
- Bug fixes.
- Dictionaries updated.
2022.12
2022-11-28
- Fixed: crash under some circumstances.
- Demo: Couvreur dictionary (Chinese-French, classical Chinese).
2022.07.02
2022-07-24
(2022.07)
- Additional details in lookup.
- User interface more fluid.
- Various bug fixes.
(2022.07.01 fixes recent app crash)
(2022.07.02) Stroke order for 9500+ characters.
2022.07.01
2022-07-12
- Bug fixes.
- Additional details in lookup.
- User interface more fluid.
(2022.07.01) Correction: current view disappearing.
2022.07
2022-07-09
- Bug fixes.
- Additional details in lookup.
- User interface more fluid.
2022.01
2022-01-21
- Shows multiple dictionaries concurrently.
- New dictionaries: DDB (Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, short definitions) and CJKV-E (Confucian, Daoist and Intellectual Historical Terms, short definitions).
2021.02
2021-02-21
Dictionaries updated
2020.06.01
2020-08-20
Bug fixed: crashed on lookup for simplified words.
2020.06
2020-06-02
Besides recognizing the correspondence between simplified and traditional variants, this version also recognizes equivalent traditional variants. For instance, searching 真 (or parsing a text with 真) will show both 真 and 眞, according to what is present in selected dictionaries. Or it will recognize equally well 為/爲 or 眾/衆.
2020.01.01
2020-01-23
(v2020.01)
- Best for iOS 13 dark mode.
- Dictionaries updated.
- Correction: HanDeDict (German dictionary) shows definitions correctly.
- This version also fixes a potential copy/paste issue which might prevent the application from working under certain circumstances.
(v2020.01.01)
- Correction: some switches for traditional/simplified did not show correctly.
2020.01
2020-01-21
- Best for iOS 13 dark mode.
- Dictionaries updated.
- Correction: HanDeDict (German dictionary) shows definitions correctly.
- This version also fixes a potential copy/paste issue which might prevent the application from working under certain circumstances.
2019.12.01
2019-12-07
This version adds audio capability for words and for texts.
Full texts can be read from the beginning or from the current selection, with speech rate (speed) control.
+ correction: presentation compatible with iOS 13 dark mode.
2019.12
2019-12-05
This version adds audio capability for words and for texts.
Full texts can be read from the beginning or from the current selection, with speech rate (speed) control.
2019.09
2019-09-13
- Updated for iPhone X and iPhone 11.
- Text reader: fast lookup, just tap again on the selection.
- Dictionaries updated.
2019.03
2019-03-22
Improved user interface.
Text reader and search especially comfortable on recent iPhones.
2018.02
2018-02-15
- Clipboard reader: show words for a full text.
- Links to related words and characters.
- New landscape presentation for iPad.
- Tests also available with traditional characters.
0.73.01
2017-03-28
Bug fixes
0.73
2017-01-13
- German dictionary completed.
- Word details show variants.
- Bug fixes.
0.72
2016-12-03
Etymology.
HSK training.
0.71
2016-10-17
Searches show simplified or traditional characters