Advanced Search
Find exactly what you're looking for across 160,000+ entries. Search by Chinese characters, pinyin, or English — and filter by tags, difficulty, or mastery.
Multilingual Queries
Type Chinese characters, pinyin (with or without tone marks), English, or any combination — the search engine handles them all. Looking up 好吃? Type the characters directly. Don't know the characters yet? Type "hǎochī" or even just "haochi" without tones. Only know the meaning? Type "delicious." The search understands what you're looking for regardless of how you express it.
Powerful Filters
Narrow your results with filters that work together:
- Tags: filter by concept category (food, travel, business) or your own custom tags
- Difficulty: set a difficulty range to find entries at your current level, or explore what's coming next
- Mastery: find items you haven't studied yet, items you're actively learning, or items you've mastered
- Record type: filter by character, word, phrase, sentence, pattern, or radical
Combine filters freely. "Show me all food-related words I haven't mastered yet at difficulty 50 or below" is a single search.
Works Offline
Search runs entirely on your device. The full index is stored locally, so searches are fast and always available — whether you're connected to the internet or not. Like the rest of the app, search is fully available offline — making it a genuinely useful reference tool on the ground in China, not just a study aid you use at home.