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Lookup
Tap a word in the text. A sheet comes up from the bottom with everything the app knows about that word.
On it: what it means in German or in English — in both, with both translations shown — and which Hán-Việt characters stand behind it, if there are any. Under the word itself stand its part of speech, where that is known, and how often it occurs in the book.
Every word of the book can be tapped — around 1,100 distinct words in all. They are answered from a dictionary of around 28,000 entries that ships with the app; nothing is fetched, and it works with no connection at all.
The words of this book, not words in general
Many words mean something more specific in the prayer text than they do in everyday speech. Where that is so, the app shows the sense the word carries here first, and the general one after it. A hand-curated glossary for the Buddhist terminology outranks the dictionary for exactly that reason.
Where the meaning came from
At the bottom of every entry there is a small tag, per language: “verified source”, “German Wiktionary” or “editorial · AI-assisted”. So you can see, word by word, what you are relying on. What each of those means is on Sources and verification.
Keeping what you need
A button on the same sheet puts the word into your vocabulary list. It waits for you there, and you can delete it again, one word at a time, whenever you like. Saving makes no difference to Review — its tasks come from the book itself.