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Tap a character for sound, meaning & stroke order · the quote is roughly how it sounds to an English ear · the curve shows how the pitch moves
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Writing & app guide
Stroke order rules, notebook tips, how to use this tool

Writing & app guide

Using this dictionary
  • Search in English, pinyin (tone marks not needed — "ni hao" finds 你好), or Chinese characters.
  • Tap any word to open its full page: meaning, pronunciation, an example sentence, and stroke order.
  • Tap any single character anywhere — in the pronunciation row, an example, or the big characters at the top — to zoom in on just that character with its own stroke order, audio, and Prev/Next through the rest of the word or sentence.
  • ⭐ Favourite bookmarks a word to find again quickly in the Favourites tab.
  • 📗 Add to Learning puts a word into spaced repetition — rate each review Again / Hard / Good / Easy and the app schedules when you'll see it next: Again brings it back in ~20 minutes, Easy pushes it weeks out.
Reading the pronunciation graph
  • The curve is a pitch contour — it traces how your voice's pitch moves across the syllable, the same shape you'll see in any tone chart.
  • → Tone 1: flat and high — hold one steady pitch.
  • ↗ Tone 2: rising — like the lift in your voice when asking "yes?"
  • ↓↗ Tone 3: dips low, then rises back up.
  • ↘ Tone 4: sharp and falling — short and firm, like a command.
  • · Neutral: light and short, no real pitch movement, no stress.
  • The quoted spelling (e.g. "jyo") is only a rough English approximation — trust the audio over the spelling for the real sound.
Stroke order rules (they apply to almost every character)
  1. Top to bottom. Strokes higher up are written first.
  2. Left to right. Strokes on the left are written first.
  3. Horizontal before vertical where they cross, e.g. 十 — the horizontal 一 first, then the vertical.
  4. Left-falling (丿) before right-falling (㇏). Seen in characters like 人 or 八.
  5. Outside before inside for enclosures — draw the frame before what's inside it, e.g. 同 or 月.
  6. Close the bottom last. For a fully-enclosed box like 口, the bottom stroke seals it after the inside is written.
  7. Center stroke before symmetrical wings. In characters like 小 or 水, the middle comes first, then left, then right.
Writing in your notebook
  • Grid paper (田字格 or 米字格 squared paper) makes it much easier to judge proportion and balance — worth using if you have it.
  • Watch the animation once at 1×, then slow it to 0.25× and copy it stroke by stroke, saying the pinyin aloud each time.
  • Write the word five times, then cover the page and write it again purely from memory — that's the real test.
  • If a character feels wrong, re-check the stroke order above rather than the shape — order affects proportion more than people expect.