HanziTranslator: Learn Chinese

Learn Chinese faster with Live Pinyin Camera, Hanzi translation, Cantonese Jyutping, and instant pronunciation while you read.

Read Chinese. Understand it. Speak it.

HanziTranslator is a modern Chinese reading and translation app designed to make Chinese characters easier to understand — whether you are studying, travelling, reading a menu, or simply curious about the text in front of you.

Point your camera at Chinese characters and see their pronunciation appear directly over the text. Or type and paste Chinese into the translator to instantly get Pinyin and a translation.

Live Pinyin Camera

Turn your iPhone into a Chinese reading assistant.

Point the camera at Chinese text and HanziTranslator recognizes the characters in real time and displays their Pinyin pronunciation directly over them.

Perfect for:

signs menus books packaging worksheets handwritten notes everyday Chinese text

Translation is optional, so you can keep the camera focused purely on Hanzi → Pinyin when you just want help reading.

Hanzi, Pinyin and Translation

The translator connects three views of Chinese:

Hanzi 你好，我想吃饭。

Pinyin nǐ hǎo, wǒ xiǎng chī fàn.

Translation Hello, I want to eat.

Enter Chinese characters and receive pronunciation and translation, or enter a translation and convert it back into Chinese.

On supported devices, HanziTranslator can also interpret Pinyin input and reconstruct the most likely Chinese characters from context.

Built for Chinese learners

HanziTranslator supports:

Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Mandarin Pinyin Cantonese mode with Jyutping support multiple translation languages

Switch between Chinese writing systems and target languages whenever you need.

Designed to feel at home on iPhone

HanziTranslator combines modern iOS design with visual details inspired by traditional Chinese art.

The interface stays intentionally simple: no clutter, no complicated menus — just the tools you need to read and understand Chinese.

Learn Chinese wherever you find it

Chinese is no longer limited to your textbook.

See a character you do not recognize?

Open the camera.

Want to know how a sentence is pronounced?

Paste it into HanziTranslator.

Know the pronunciation but not the characters?

Enter the Pinyin and let HanziTranslator help reconstruct the Hanzi on supported devices.

Chinese becomes much easier when you can read what you see.