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小故事 · The story behind it
常用词 · A common word
举个例子 · Here's an example
This free interactive tool lets you learn Chinese characters one at a time. Tap any character to see it written stroke by stroke, hear the correct pronunciation, and read it in a real sentence — the best way to make the shapes stick. 免费互动识字工具：点击任意汉字，看笔顺动画、听标准发音、读真实例句，帮你轻松记住每一个字。
Each of the 300 characters includes an animated stroke-order diagram, Mandarin audio pronunciation, pinyin romanisation, English meaning, an origin story, a common word, and an example sentence. A separate radicals guide covers the 24 building-block components — the recurring shapes that make new characters easier to recognise and remember. Free to use, no account needed.
Nearly every character above is built from smaller pieces, and the piece that hints at the meaning is called the radical — 部首 bùshǒu. Radicals are one of the hardest parts of learning to read, but once you know the couple of dozen below you can make a smart guess at characters you've never met — and find any word in a Chinese dictionary. 认识部首，猜字更容易，查字典也离不开它。
Tap a character to watch it drawn stroke by stroke up above. 点一下，回到上面看笔顺。
咏鹅
Goose, goose, goose — neck curved, singing to the sky. White feathers afloat on green water, red feet paddling the clear waves.
By tradition, 骆宾王 wrote this at seven years old — which is why it is so many children's very first poem. You already know 水 from the explorer above.
Come along to a Saturday class and learn many more characters with us — your very first lesson is completely free. 来我们的周六课堂，一起学更多汉字。第一次来可以免费试听。