Free teaching tool
Stroke order
Watch any character being written, one stroke at a time.
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Stroke order
Using it
Type a character and it is drawn in the order a Chinese writer would draw it, stroke by stroke, at whatever size your screen is. Replay it as often as the room needs. Stroke order is not decoration — it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how characters are looked up in a paper dictionary.
- Play
- Draws the character from the first stroke to the last, at reading speed.
- Step forward / back
- Moves one stroke at a time, so you can stop on the one the class is getting wrong.
- Replay
- Starts again from a blank square. Nothing is lost by repeating it.
- The counter
- Shows which stroke you are on out of the total — the number a dictionary orders by.
Other tools
- Tone cardsThe four tones of one syllable, side by side, each with a word you can hear.
- Write itA 田字格 grid to write a character in, with the model behind it.
- Say itRecord a phrase and see the shape of your pitch against the model.
- MatchPair characters with their pinyin. Type your own list.
- Build a sentenceScrambled words, and slots to put them back in order.
- Pinyin tableEvery syllable Mandarin uses, one initial at a time, each one audible.