Chinese stroke order lookup
Look up a Chinese character by the character, its pinyin with or without tones, or its meaning. Each page animates the strokes in the order taught in mainland China, as recorded by Make Me a Hanzi, checks your tracing and prints a sheet.
HSK 1 characters
246 characters (2025 syllabus) · 246 with their own page here.
HSK 2 characters
125 characters (2025 syllabus) · 125 with their own page here.
HSK 3 to 7-9
Higher levels have their lists and worksheets now; their characters open in the viewer until their pages are released.
What each character page has
The animation follows Make Me a Hanzi: each stroke is drawn as a brush moving along its center line inside the Kaiti outline, the style of handwriting textbooks. Every reading is listed with its own meanings, the one used most in HSK words first. 122 of the 371 characters here have a separate traditional form (Unihan), which their page shows next to the simplified one. Background: basic Chinese strokes and simplified vs traditional Chinese.
Every character, not only HSK
Make Me a Hanzi has strokes for 9,565 characters, simplified and traditional. Search finds them all, and those without their own page open in the practice viewer.
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Kept on this device only. My list and the daily quiz are on the practice page.