Chinese characters
How Chinese characters are built from components and radicals, the rules of stroke order, and the 100 characters you will meet most often, each with pinyin, meaning and native audio.
Every guide on Chinese characters
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The 100 Most Common Chinese Characters
The 100 most common Chinese characters by frequency, each with pinyin, meaning, an example word and native audio, plus a quiz to test yourself.
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Chinese Stroke Order Rules: The 8 Rules
The eight Chinese stroke order rules, with characters that animate stroke by stroke, and why the order makes your handwriting faster and neater.
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How Chinese Characters Actually Work
Chinese characters aren’t pictures to memorise. How components, radicals and the meaning-plus-sound pattern behind most characters actually work.
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