Get freedom from your phone’s obvious limitations. Use 成語典 – 成語詞典、成語字典, made by 國語工作室, a Education app on your PC or Mac with BlueStacks, and level up your experience.
This is a straight-up Chinese idioms dictionary that feels like a real reference book, just faster and easier to search. There are over twenty thousand entries and more than a thousand little idiom stories, and each page is packed with useful bits: definition, pinyin, where it came from, sample citations, usage notes, even how to tell similar idioms apart. It is not a game, more like a study buddy for anyone who reads or writes Chinese and keeps running into chengyu.
Search is the star here. Typing full characters works, but it also understands wildcards. The percent sign covers any length, the underscore stands in for a single character, so things like 一%一% will pull up all those one…one… patterns, and 一_一_ grabs the tighter ones. It even supports pinyin initials, so yx% finds idioms that start with yx, and yxyy will match that exact four-letter pattern. That makes hunting a phrase from memory way less painful. Everything works offline, which is great, and there is a daily set of 20 idioms to browse if someone just wants to learn a bit. Favorites are easy to save, and sharing to Line or WeChat or email is one tap.
Running it on a PC with BlueStacks makes a lot of sense, since the long citations and story sections read better on a big screen, and typing wildcards with a keyboard is quicker. Copying notes into a doc, flipping between windows, it just suits study or writing sessions. It is simple, no fluff, and gets the job done.
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