Hanzi Master Deluxe

Hanzi Master ("Hanzim") is an interactive visual dictionary for learning and seeing relationships between Chinese characters, radicals, and compounds. All characters with a given radical, phonetic component, or pronunciation can be displayed, together with all words containing a character, with English meanings. Either simplified or traditional characters can be used. Any Chinese text can be annotated with mouse-over definitions. The application can be set to display subsets of characters based on usage frequency, making it suitable for all levels of Chinese learners. Hanzi Master Deluxe you can also test yourself with flashcards, see the historical development of a character, listen to its pronunciation, and display its stroke order.

The 3.4 release brings improvements to flashcard presentation, including a full-screen mode and the ability to mark known cards. You can now also download vocabulary lists from an online library. Bug fixes were also made.

Whats new in this version:

The 3.5 release brings improved integration of third-party dictionaries such as CeDict and HanDeDict. Handwriting recognition and several other platform-related improvements come to the Mac version, and the Linux version has been updated for better compatibility with recent distributions. There is a new tutorial for lists and flash cards. Finally, a version for the iPad (called iHanzim) is now available.