# VerticalChinese

> Read & learn the classics

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6739588080](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6739588080)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6739588080`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Digital X Prairie LLC
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.03
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-24
- **First published:** 2024-12-31
- **Size:** 52 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/verticalchinese/id6739588080)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://carsonmulligan.github.io/chinese\_poems\_app\_privacy\_policy\_december\_2024/](https://carsonmulligan.github.io/chinese_poems_app_privacy_policy_december_2024/)

## Description

Vertical Chinese is a calm, beautiful place to read classical Chinese (文言) — and a built-in dictionary that helps you understand every character.

Read the Daodejing, the Analects, Mencius, Zhuangzi, Tang poetry, Records of the Grand Historian, and more — 250+ foundational texts, laid out vertically and character by character, the way they were written.

READ
• Vertical, character-by-character layout with a steady pinyin gutter
• Toggle Traditional 繁 / Simplified 简, pinyin 拼, and English 英
• 聽書 read-aloud (audiobook) mode, plus per-word pronunciation
• Warm rice-paper design, with light & dark themes

UNDERSTAND — a dictionary built in
• Tap any character for pinyin, meaning, and animated stroke order
• Full CC-CEDICT word lookup — search by character, pinyin, or English
• Radical index to find characters you can't type
• Example sentences with pinyin and English

REMEMBER
• Save any character or word with a tap
• Spaced-repetition flashcards (練習) to review what you save
• Track your progress from carp to dragon — 鯉躍龍門

## Rankings

- #848,567 — Overall

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