# Chinese Keyboard Plugin

> Chinese plugin for Multiling O Keyboard

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `klye.hanwriting`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Honso
- **Category:** PRODUCTIVITY
- **Downloads:** 492,353
- **Rating:** 3.79 / 5 (3,005 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.3.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-28
- **First published:** 2011-03-30
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 4.67 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=klye.hanwriting)
- **Website:** [http://honsoapps.appspot.com/1/1.html](http://honsoapps.appspot.com/1/1.html)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://honsoapps.appspot.com/1/p.html](http://honsoapps.appspot.com/1/p.html)

## Description

The Chinese Keyboard Plugin seamlessly integrates with the Multiling Keyboard and O Keyboard apps to provide robust input capabilities for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts. It supports various input methods including pinyin, zhuyin, jyutping, and features advanced handwriting recognition with special functions like radical-based character lookup.

Users can conveniently input simplified and traditional Chinese characters, rare or uncommon characters, as well as sync phonetic conversions for Mandarin and Cantonese. The plugin guarantees privacy with no network or unnecessary permissions, ensuring a secure typing experience. Ideal for users seeking comprehensive Asian language input on Android devices.

## Rankings

- #101,071 — Overall

## Review summary

Most reviews praise quality and usefulness, but several reports indicate the app is not functioning in current versions and users want simplified Chinese (modern hanzi) instead of traditional strokes. A few comments point to unclear experience. Overall, the app is seen as high quality when it runs, with stability and feature gaps as the main drawbacks.

### Pros

- Very good quality
- Good quality overall (positive notes like 'Good job'/'Good work')
- Positive, pleasant feel (lovely / nice)
- Long-standing usefulness (used for many years)

### Cons

- Not working / currently not functioning for several users
- Lack of support for simplified modern hanzi; uses traditional strokes
- Unclear or limited user experience/guidance (noted as 'No experionce')

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/klye.hanwriting)