Write Chinese characters from memory, stroke by stroke.
A handwriting practice app for iPhone and iPad. Write each character in the practice grid with your finger or Apple Pencil, and Hanbi checks every stroke as you draw it. Write it right and Hanbi can lay your character over the standard one and say where it’s off: off-center, too small, a stroke too short.
The characters you need to write
HSK 3.0 asks you to write 1,200 characters. Hanbi practices those by default, and you can add the rest. Already write well? Switch to Test Mode: no hints, write the whole character at your own pace, and Hanbi checks it when you’re done and marks any strokes written in a different order. Not sure where to start? Write three characters and Hanbi suggests a level.
Short lessons by topic
Learn in short lessons: family, numbers, food… Write the words, fill in sentences the way the HSK paper test does, and finish each lesson with a short dialogue. Share a list with a link or a QR code, and learn 50 Common Radicals at the top of the Learn tab.
Weak Spots, on one page
Characters you wrote wrong, mixed up or missed in Dictation gather in Weak Spots. Write each one three times until it’s cleared. Or print a practice sheet of just those characters. Most characters also have a How to remember line built from their parts, and you can write your own.
Practice like the paper exam
Write with no help in Test Mode, fill the blank in a word, or listen and write a word or a whole sentence. Each level also has a Writing Test: 10 questions, no hints, a score at the end. And Timed Writing gives you a suggested time for a set of characters, then shows how long you took.
Practice on paper
Print practice sheets and write on real paper: 田 or 米 grids, trace boxes that fade out, as many rows per character as you like, your own characters or a Blank Sheet. The Basic Strokes lesson gets you started on 26 strokes, in the app and on paper. My Handwriting puts the characters you wrote next to the standard ones on one page, to print or share.
Meanings in your language
Every character has its meaning in English, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean or Japanese, and most have example words. Can’t type a character? Write it to search.
Pay once. HSK 1 is free.
HSK 1 (246 characters) is free, and so are the first two lessons of every other level. You can look through all 6,500 characters for free too. One purchase lets you write every lesson in HSK 2–9 and 3,000+ common characters outside HSK, with no subscription.
Works offline. No account.
Practice without an internet connection. iCloud Sync keeps your iPhone and iPad the same, in your own iCloud, with no Hanbi account. Two Shortcuts actions, for the Shortcuts app and Siri: “Start Today’s Session” and “Look Up a Character”.
For iPhone and iPad