# Four Books: Confucian Classics

Android app · by Daoxue Academy · Books & Reference

Four Books: Confucian Classics has 32 installs, \#57,054 of 69,990 in Books & Reference.

## Figures

- Installs: 32
- Rating: unrated
- Price: Free
- In-app purchases: yes
- Rank: #2,043,686 of 2,767,909 by installs on Android
- Rank: #57,054 of 69,990 in Books & Reference

## Description

The Four Books App is a book reader and scholarly utility which presents the traditional Confucian curriculum: the Great Learning, the Discourses of Confucius (the Analects), the Book of Mengzi (Mencius), and the Doctrine of the Mean. A six-year translation project in progress. New verses arrive in the app around the first of each month.  
  
\-- Ancient Teachings, Correct Transmission, Modern Tech --  
  
Traditional Interpretation  
• A public benefit project to translate Zhu Xi’s “Four Books with Collected Commentaries” 四書章句集注: the classic that defined orthodox Confucianism and served as the basis of the imperial examinations from 1313 to 1905.  
  
Established Lexicon  
• Builds upon the translation lexicon perfected by Wing-tsit Chan (A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy), with roots going back to James Legge (The Chinese Classics). Honoring lineage—with conservative refinements. Uses modern pinyin, of course.  
  
Learn Classical Chinese  
• Study Classical and Middle Chinese with literal glosses for grammar and per-character meaning. Highly configurable dual-language presentation parsable by sentence.  
  
Reading Experience  
• Meticulous attention to readability: translation, typography, and a full-screen reader for tablets. This Classic deserves to be both scholarly and good reading, just as the native text is.  
  
Optimized Multi-platform  
• Phones feature an intuitive tab bar design for one-handed navigation, while tablets leverage a powerful sidebar for efficient browsing through verses. Designed for Android 16; runs on Android 10 and newer.  
  
Android Native UI  
• Pure Android native tech throughout: Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with an embedded SQLite Confucian database for lightning-fast location of verses, key terms, named persons and named texts.  
  
\-- Basic App & Scholar Pack In-app Purchase --  
  
Basic App:  
• Core Ancient Verses: 284 most influential  
• Language: English translation only  
• Search: Basic, English-only  
• Encyclopedia: Ancient figures only  
  
Scholar Pack:  
• All Ancient Verses: 804 complete  
• Traditional Commentary  
• Language: English & Classical Chinese  
• Tap Character for Literal Gloss  
• Full-Verse Literal Gloss Sheets  
• Sentence-Level Parsing Tool  
• Search: English & Chinese  
• Encyclopedia: Ancient and medieval figures  
• Book 5: Explanation of Terms  
  
• No ads, no account creation, no data collection  
• Small offline app, low battery usage  
  
Scholar Pack is a single in-app purchase that includes everything above. It has a final target price, but is currently priced lower based on the percentage completion of the translation. One-time purchase, with all future content delivered free.  
  
\-- Reach Out --  
  
Please contact us at support@daoxue.academy, or using the in-app contact tools in settings, with questions or requests. We are committed to continual refinement and making this the optimal Confucian Classics app for both scholars and readers.

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Source: https://storetally.com/googleplay/academy.daoxue.fourbooks  
As of 2026-10-17, from the StoreTally census.