Chinese Writer

In-app purchases
4.7
4.85K reviews
500K+
Downloads
Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

Learn how to write thousands of Chinese characters - it's educational, entertaining and addictive!

Characters fall from the top of the screen — tap them and draw them correctly to score points. Just don't let them reach the bottom, or—kaboom! Lose three and the game is over, but the learning continues: you can review everything that you saw, complete with stroke order diagrams and practice at your own pace. Characters you made the most mistakes on are highlighted at the top of the list.

⇨ It's more than a game!

✓ trainchinese Chinese Writer can test you on more than 5,000 Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters, and features stroke-order diagrams, English explanations and high quality audio recordings for every pronunciation of each one.

✓ The app remembers which characters you've had trouble writing and prioritises them in future games.

⇨ It's suitable for everyone!

✓ Characters are divided into packs by difficulty according to the official HSK standard. Hundreds are included in this free download.

✓ Create your own packs by searching for characters by Pinyin. You can even mix Pinyin, English and Chinese characters in one search to find as many results as possible, and one tap adds them all to your custom pack.

✓ Your kids can play. Your grandmother can too. Now everyone can enjoy the pleasure of learning this beautiful system of writing.

✓ Whatever your writing level, you'll improve with trainchinese Chinese Writer. Beginners can start with simpler characters and at a slower pace, while experienced students will blaze their way through those HSK 4 hanzi!

⇨ It's connected!

✓ Create your own character packs and share them with friends by email.

✓ Feeling proud of yourself? Share your high score with your friends via Twitter and Facebook.

✓ Already a trainchinese user? Download the characters you're learning into trainchinese Chinese Writer for free!

Learn to write Chinese characters with trainchinese Chinese Writer. It's educational, entertaining - and addictive!

⇨ We'd love to hear what you think about Chinese Writer. Contact us any time at cs@trainchinese.com!
Updated on
26 Nov 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
App activity, App info and performance and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families policy

Ratings and reviews

4.7
4.37K reviews
Константин Долохов
25 August 2020
A nice app but would have been greatly improved if had more features. I study Chinese at university and I use this app to look up strokes order and their appearance in calligraphy. It's not convenient to search required character with just looking through the whole list. I'd really appreciate if I could see the character in the order I added them or had a possibility to search them inside the list easily. It also would be wonderful if played stroke order animation so I could just watch it.
30 people found this review helpful
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Don Parris
28 April 2025
The game is kind of addicti the charactersve, but I recommend spending time tracing the characters to really learn them before playing the game. It's a fantastic tool for learning the Hanzi characters, and I like that I can switch between traditional and simplified (Mandarin), as well as between typed and calligraphy characters. I think the developers should consider running the game in a manner like flash cards (no points) as a practice just to learn the meanings of each character.
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Xuan Nhi Le
12 June 2024
Fun app, everything is great except for the fact that I can't copy the characters (in order to paste it to the dictionary/flash cards). My cursor won't appear when I tap on the characters. This is such a simple task to do. I paid for all the characters to be unlocked so I would expect to at least do that. Either the app has this problem or just my phone.
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What's new

We've updated the app to better explain the difference between our one-time upgrade options and a trainchinese subscription. Thanks for playing Chinese Writer!