Learn Chinese by exploring the relationships between characters alongside examples that illustrate their use.
Click or tap any hanzi, anywhere, anytime, to learn more.
Note that you can zoom, drag, and re-arrange the diagram however you please.
Simplified characters are used by default. Traditional characters and Cantonese can be chosen from the menu in the upper left, as can a graph based on the HSK word list.
Check out the code on GitHub, or see the FAQ for more information.
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Previous attempts: % correct.
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Colors indicate frequency or HSK level.
Percentages are hanzi seen, not words. Click a bar in the chart for details.
Percentages are hanzi seen, not words. Click a bar in the chart for details.
Click a box in the calendar for details. Brighter colors mean more studying.
Click a box in the calendar for details. Brighter colors mean more cards added.
Click a bar in the chart for details.
Green:
75% correct or
better.
Blue:
between 50% and 75%. Orange: between 25% and 50%. Red: less than 25% correct.
This site is a prototype, but it's decently usable in its current state. Feel free to see the (currently at a hackathon level of quality) code or contact the author on github.
The idea is to emphasize the word-forming connections among hanzi to help learners remember them. I've found this more fun and effective than other methods, like studying stroke order, learning radicals or components, writing each character out 100 times, or doing spaced repetition on cards mapping hanzi to pinyin and English.
data should be considered released under those same
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