# Pleco Chinese Dictionary

> Handwriting, OCR, flashcards

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id341922306](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id341922306)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id341922306`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Pleco Inc.
- **Category:** Reference
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (1,914 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.2.83
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-12
- **First published:** 2009-12-17
- **Size:** 114 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pleco-chinese-dictionary/id341922306)
- **Website:** [http://www.pleco.com/products/](http://www.pleco.com/products/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.pleco.com/privacy.html](http://www.pleco.com/privacy.html)

## Description

Pleco is a comprehensive Chinese learning companion packaged as a Chrome extension. It provides multi-dictionary lookup (CC-CEDICT, PLC, and additional dictionaries), full-text search, character components, and example sentences with Pinyin. It also includes fullscreen handwriting input and live OCR to look up words from images or clipboard text, plus a document reader with quick tap-lookups (where supported).

Additional features include audio pronunciations, stroke order diagrams, flashcards with spaced repetition, and user dictionaries. The tool supports traditional and simplified scripts (with Zhuyin and optional Cantonese in some dictionaries) and offers an ad-free experience. Expect ongoing updates and active community support from Pleco.

## Rankings

- #40,990 — Overall
- #30 — definition
- #51 — dictionary

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