Great video from @Max about the most essential Mandarin learning tool there is.
Who else uses Pleco?
I am on the free version only, anyone using the paid flash card system too?
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Very good video, thanks @Max
I happen to have the strokes included. It says “Demo” for 28,000 chars. 
Btw, a note for beginners, it is important to use the right direction to write the characters if you search a char on Pleco or LINE Chinese by painting, to get the correct choices. 
- Thanks, I always forget about the History.
- I didn’t know that I could choose a specific add-on as well, not only the bundles.
- Up to now I hadn’t discovered the “words beginning” and “words containing”. I used other sites for that on my laptop.
For the OCR I am using the free version of ChinesePro. You make a photo with it, frame the piece of interest and get it translated. There is always some annoying advert between, but okay, it is so useful. Maybe sometime I will get the OCR for Pleco…
Thankyou for your wonderful (British) English lesson. 
to delve into sth, to be versed to sth, screen grabs, to hold fire, clever clogs, Hamburger icon , one-off (payment),
and Pleco taught me “chars”.
I am still using LEO as well, and LINE Chinese, MDBG, or Hackchinese, when I want to add it anyway, and some other sites. I like to play around
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I’ve been using Pleco for YEARS and is the ultimate app for me. At first I thought the app was not easy to use but with time I realised it’s just a matter of getting used to it. Also over the years some improvements were made.
TOP TIP I learned recently:
Did you know that by typing a question mark before or after a character you’d get ALL words including this character in alphabetical order?
For example I want to see all words with 子 in second position, I type “?子” and get the following: 
And same goes the other way around, still in alphabetical order:
Hope this is useful 
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Recently I started to use it as my first choice dictionary.
The ? trick is brilliant. Awesome!! 
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I had no idea. Thats amazing!
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OH. I’ve been using Pleco for over four years and I didn’t know this trick all along. Thanks for sharing.
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