Master Chinese with native Traditional (Zhuyin) and Simplified (Pinyin) parity, an on-device tone trainer that scores your pitch contour, precision stroke-order practice, and fables graded strictly to your vocabulary level.
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The same engine that runs the app: real stroke vectors from our character dataset, stories and their translations, FSRS scheduler for flashcards.
一只老虎在森林里寻找食物。找了半天，它抓住了一只狐狸。
A tiger was hunting in the forest. After a long search it caught a fox.
狐狸心里害怕极了，但是它没有叫，反而大声说：你敢吃我？我是上天派来做百兽之王的！
The fox was terrified, but instead of crying out it said boldly: you dare eat me? I was sent by Heaven to be king of all beasts!
老虎不相信。狐狸说：你要是不信，就跟在我后面走一圈，看看百兽见到我，谁敢不逃跑？
The tiger did not believe it. The fox said: if you doubt me, walk behind me and see whether any beast dares not flee at the sight of me.
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Built for serious learners: dual scripts, bi-directional SRS, real literature, stroke and pronunciation practice.
Recall (Mandarin → English) and production (English → Mandarin) are separate cards scheduled by the Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler, for higher retention, fewer redundant reviews.
Full parity for Traditional characters and Bopomofo alongside Simplified and Pinyin. HSK and TOCFL tracks, with Taiwan and Mainland standards accurately mapped.
Pull up look-alike characters (己 已 巳) or subtle synonyms (了解 vs 理解) mid-review, without leaving your study queue.
Classical fables, folklore and cultural essays graded to your vocabulary tier, so you read with comprehension instead of dictionary hunting.
Tap a word in any story: the character, its context sentence and sliced audio land in your review queue instantly.
A curated catalog of real Mandarin media, TV dramas, films, podcasts, cartoons, YouTube, music and games, sorted from toddler-speed to native pace, so your input never runs out.
Bite-sized lessons on the patterns textbooks take chapters to explain: SVO order, 把 sentences, the 的/地/得 trio, plus chengyu, colloquialisms and cross-strait variants. Try a few →
Minimal-pair drills (zh/z, an/ang, tone 2 vs 3), a Tone Ear quiz and sentence dictation - plus Tone Echo: record a syllable and your pitch contour is scored against the model, all offline.
Every flashcard can be spoken: play, repeat, and compare your contour against the reference. Slow play sits on every audio surface, so fast native speech is always one tap from half speed.
Trace characters on the rice grid scored stroke-by-stroke, then free-write from memory on a blank canvas - the app checks your ink against the real stroke skeleton automatically.
A per-syllable color scheme paints tone 1 red, 2 green, 3 blue, 4 violet across headwords - a mnemonic layer you can toggle in settings, with the printed reading always alongside.
Characters that share a phonetic component are grouped for you (包 bāo: 饱 抱 泡 跑), so the sound hidden inside a glyph becomes visible.
5,330 characters and 49,768 words with stroke order, decomposition, etymology and example sentences - hand-curated for the words learners meet first. Browse it →
Stroke vectors, dictionaries and downloaded audio live on your device. No cloud lag, no tracking, study on a plane.
Every reference surface works in your browser, no account needed.