Go here (or here if you can't access YouTube) to see a detailed video demo of Pleco on iPhone.
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A basic character search. You can enter characters using handwriting recognition or a built-in radical table.
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A Pinyin search. You can enter Pinyin with or without tones.
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A mixed character/Pinyin search, speeding up lookups for words where you recognize one character but don't recognize the other.
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A full-text search, letting you find any dictionary entry which contains a particular word in its definition / examples.
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Handwriting input - just draw the character you're looking for in our silky-smooth fullscreen interface and Pleco will recognize it. Our recognition engine supports cursive writing and even tolerates some mistakes in stroke order, plus it suports an extremely-handy little multitouch gesture to clear the screen when you're done drawing.
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Along with handwriting input, Pleco also includes a built-in radical table like you'd find in a printed dictionary.
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Stroke order diagrams; simply tap on any character in a dictionary entry to bring up its stroke order.
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There's also a built-in document reader; you can use this to read through a Chinese-language text file and look up unknown words simply by tapping on them.
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And a built-in flashcard system, supporting a wide variety of test types like self-graded,
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fill-in-the-blanks,
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tone practice,
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and multiple-choice,
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with a comprehensive set of tools for organizing your cards too.