Character Mastery

Learn Chinese characters through deliberate practice

Ten characters a day. Stroke order animation. Sentence audio. Substitution drills. A structured path from your first character to your six hundredth.

Day 1 · Character 1
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600

characters across 60 days. Flashcards, stroke order, substitution drills, review. Open the app, spend 10 minutes, close it. Do it again tomorrow.

600
Characters
60
Days
HSK 1–2
Coverage
The Method
Recognition

Learn

10 new characters a day. Each one gets stroke order animation, radical breakdown, and example sentences you can actually read.

Pattern Drilling

Drill

Substitution drills from the Foreign Service Institute method. You get a sentence, then swap out words — verbs, nouns, pronouns — and say the new one.

Active Recall

Review

Shuffled deck. You see pinyin or a definition, try to recall the character, then flip to check. Boring, but it works.

The Experience

This is what a character card looks like

Tap to flip. Front side is the character. Back side has pinyin, definition, radical decomposition, and example sentences. There's stroke order animation and TTS audio too.

  • Animated stroke order playback
  • Radical decomposition tree
  • TTS sentence audio
  • Works offline as a PWA
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Day 1
xué to study; to learn 学习 xuéxí — to study
Curriculum Preview

60 days. 600 characters. HSK 1 and HSK 2 covered.

The curriculum progresses from high-frequency pronouns and verbs to abstract concepts and compound formations. By the end, you will recognise the characters that make up the vast majority of everyday written Chinese.

Days 1–30 · HSK 1

300 characters: pronouns, basic verbs, measure words, particles

Days 31–60 · HSK 2

300 characters: compound verbs, adjectives, abstract nouns, connectives

Day 01 10 characters
Day 02 10 characters
Day 03 10 characters
Day 04 10 characters
Day 05 10 characters
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300 HSK 1 Characters

These are the 300 HSK 1 characters. You learn all of them in 30 days.

穿
饿
西
What You Get
Flashcards
Tap to flip. Character on front, pinyin, definition, and real example sentences on back.
Stroke Animation
Watch every stroke drawn in order. Helps you remember how characters are built.
FSI-Style Drills
Substitution drills inspired by the Foreign Service Institute. Swap words in real sentence patterns.
Review Mode
Shuffled review deck. See a prompt, recall the character, then reveal and check yourself.
TTS Audio
Hear every sentence read aloud. Generated by a neural TTS model (Qwen3-TTS).
Works Offline
It's a PWA. Install it on your phone, use it on the train. No internet required after first load.
Chrome Extension
Highlights Chinese characters you've learned on any webpage. Shows pinyin, definitions, and word compounds on hover.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Q for stroke animation, W for audio, E for review, R for drills. Arrow keys to navigate. Space to flip.

Start with day one.

No account. No sign-up. Just open it.

Open the app

Free. Works offline.