Chinese characters, stroke by stroke
1797 characters across HSK 3.0 Levels 1 to 6. Each page draws the strokes in order, gives the readings the words actually use, the radical and the stroke count, and lists the words that contain it with an example sentence.
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What a character page holds
The strokes are drawn in writing order, one after another, and a chart adds one stroke per square. A button opens the character in the app, which draws each stroke, then has you write it and names the stroke that went wrong. A link prints a practice sheet on a grid.
The lead line gives the meaning, the stroke count, the radical and the HSK level where the character is first met. The readings are the ones the catalogue's words use. Where the character splits into parts, the page names each part, and the part that carries the meaning or the sound where the source says which. The words that use the character follow, each with its pinyin, an English meaning, a definition in Chinese, an example sentence and the lesson that teaches it.
The characters below are in the order the lessons meet them, one band at a time across Levels 1 to 6. Stroke outlines are the Hanzi Writer project's data, derived from Arphic Technology's fonts; readings, meanings and radicals are from Make Me a Hanzi.