Laowai Chinese Dictionary

Learn Chinese through HSK courses, your own word lists, and the things you want to read. Laowai brings an offline Chinese-English dictionary together with HSK 3.0 courses, adaptive practice, and a reader with pinyin above individual words. HSK 3.0 COURSES, LEVELS 1–4 • Follow lessons that connect vocabulary, grammar, listening, and speaking. • Review difficult activities from across your course in a shared review round. • Carry word progress between course lessons and your own practice. • Continue your course or your latest word list from the Learn screen. A FREE OFFLINE DICTIONARY • Search 124,000+ Chinese-English entries by characters, pinyin, or English. • Explore 106,000+ Chinese-English example sentences. • Hear pronunciation and look up related words, grammar, and stroke order. • Save useful words and examples for later. PRACTICE YOUR WORDS • Use HSK collections, themed lists, favorites, history, or personal lists. • Practice listening, speaking, meaning, tones, sentences, and character writing. • Choose a character-writing-only round when you want to focus on handwriting. • Review words and grammar patterns as they become due. • Check your progress and choose the words your next round will use. READ AND LISTEN • Explore recorded dialogues, guided readers, stories, and Chinese classics. • Import EPUB, TXT, and FB2 books and texts. • Read with pinyin above individual words and look up a word or phrase in place. • Keep your position as you move between chapters. • Follow speech highlighting and control playback speed. KEEP CHINESE CLOSE • Review from Home Screen widgets, Live Activities, and Apple Watch. • Bring forgotten words back sooner with Remember / Forgot controls. • Open the right word list from study reminders. • Sign in with Apple, Google or email to sync your words, lists and study progress between the app and laowaiapp.com. • Keep using optional iCloud sync for lists, texts, reading position and learning progress. LAOWAI PRO Dictionary search stays free. Laowai Pro unlocks unlimited practice, unlimited widgets and Live Activities, and iCloud sync. Prices and subscription terms are shown before purchase. DATA SOURCES Dictionary data is derived from CC-CEDICT under CC BY-SA 4.0. Examples and recorded material include attributed licensed and first-party sources. Source and license details are available in Profile > Data Sources. Software: Arseniy Dorogin and Dmitry Polyansky Design: Dmitry Polyansky