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Stop looking radicals up.
Start recognising them.
The free chart tells you what the 214 radicals are. This is the pack that puts them in your hand — traced, heard, and drilled until you spot them inside characters you have never seen before.
Stroke order, then tracing
Reference lists by stroke count
69-page workbookOne payment. No subscription, no expiry. An hour of one-to-one costs US$36 — this is yours for good.
Hear the part inside the word
A radical only earns its keep when you can find it inside a real character. Tap any word below to hear it — the same recording that arrives in your download — and look for the radical named beside it.
Seven of 415. Every example character in the pack is recorded at natural speed and slowed, and indexed so you can find any of them in seconds.
Stroke order, then your own hand
Every radical gets its stroke sequence shown step by step, with the new stroke in red — then a row to practise in. The first square is printed faintly to trace; the rest are yours. Order matters: a radical written in the wrong sequence looks wrong even when every stroke is present.
水 · shuǐ · water — one of 214 rows, laid out in 田字格 guides so the radical sits correctly.
One detail worth knowing, because it is the sort of thing that gets skipped: the faint character you trace is drawn from the same stroke data as the diagram above it, not set in a printed serif font. Printed type adds decorative entry and exit marks that nobody writes by hand — in a serif face, 冖 comes out looking like an arrow. What you trace here is the handwritten form.
What arrives
One zip, three parts, about eleven megabytes. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
The workbook
69 pages, printable A4
Numbered stroke-order diagrams and a tracing row for all 214 radicals, grouped by stroke count, with each radical shown inside real characters.
- Stroke order step by step, new stroke in red
- Two example characters beside every radical
- 田字格 guides on every square
- Reference lists and a three-pass tracker
The audio
830 MP3 files
All 415 example characters, twice over — natural speed and slowed. The same native voice used across WillyChina.
- Separate natural and slow folders
- An index mapping every file to its character
- Plays on any device, no app required
The flashcards
Anki, three decks
Recognition, production, and the one that matters most — spotting a radical inside a character you have not met.
- 214 recognition and 214 production cards
- 428 spotting cards, audio on every one
- Step-by-step import instructions
Why radicals, when you could just learn characters?
Because characters are not drawn, they are assembled. Nearly every one of the fifty thousand is built from this same set of 214 parts, and once you know the parts a character stops being a shape to memorise and becomes something you can take apart. 河 is water beside a phonetic. 想 is a heart under a sound. That is not a mnemonic anyone invented — it is how the writing system was built.
The practical payoff is dictionary speed, far fewer mix-ups between characters that look alike, and the ability to make a sensible guess at a character you have never seen. Two hundred and fourteen is a weekend’s work to meet and a few weeks to own. It is the highest-leverage fortnight in learning to read Chinese.
Who this is for
A good fit if
- Characters still feel like arbitrary shapes to you
- You are starting out, or starting again, and want the foundation first
- You learn better with a pen than with an app
- You want to own your materials rather than rent them
Probably not if
- You only want to speak, and never intend to read or write
- You already decompose characters comfortably — this would be revision
- You want video lessons; this is practice material, not a course
- You would rather have a teacher, in which case book a free call instead
Questions
Is this a subscription?
No. It is one payment. The files are yours to keep and re-download on any device, forever.
What exactly do I get?
One zip, about eleven megabytes: a 69-page PDF workbook with stroke-order diagrams and tracing grids for all 214 radicals, 830 MP3 audio files, and three Anki flashcard decks with import instructions.
The radicals chart is already free on this site. Why pay?
The free chart is a reference table, and it stays free. This is practice material: stroke order and tracing grids for every radical, and a flashcard deck that drills spotting a radical inside a character you have not seen. Knowing what a radical is and recognising it at speed are different skills.
Is every radical recorded?
No, and that is deliberate. The audio covers the 415 example characters — real words like 河 (hé, river) and 冷 (lěng, cold). Most radicals are shapes rather than words: nobody says a bare 冖 or 丨 out loud, and a speech engine asked to read one simply guesses. What is useful is hearing the characters a radical appears in, and every one of those is here, at natural speed and slowed.
Do I need a printer?
For the tracing pages, yes — that is the point of them. The audio and the flashcards work entirely on screen.
Do I need to know any Chinese already?
No. Radicals are the sensible place to start, and this works from zero. It also works well alongside HSK 1 if you are already under way.
What if the download does not work?
Reply to your receipt email and it will be sorted the same day. The link in your email keeps working, so you can also simply use it again.
All 214 parts, in your handwriting
Workbook, audio and flashcards. One payment, and it is yours.
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