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Sounds firstPinyin is Mandarin written with Latin letters: 21 initials, 36 finals and four tones. Learn it before anything else — in Chinese the tone decides the meaning.Then characters and wordsEvery character is drawn stroke by stroke, and most words are two characters long. Look up either one as you meet it — both pages carry pinyin, audio and examples.Then practiseShort drills that tell you what you got wrong: listen and choose the word, read with pinyin on every word, or type what you hear. Save your mistakes to the study list.

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    Sounds first

    Pinyin is Mandarin written with Latin letters: 21 initials, 36 finals and four tones. Learn it before anything else — in Chinese the tone decides the meaning.

    Start with the pinyin alphabet All pinyin & tone tools
  2. 02

    Then characters and words

    Every character is drawn stroke by stroke, and most words are two characters long. Look up either one as you meet it — both pages carry pinyin, audio and examples.

    Open the character dictionary HSK word lists by level
  3. 03

    Then practise

    Short drills that tell you what you got wrong: listen and choose the word, read with pinyin on every word, or type what you hear. Save your mistakes to the study list.

    Practise by HSK level Graded reading with pinyin

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Pinyin & tones

How Mandarin sounds, and how to hear the difference between the four tones.

Characters & words

What the characters mean, how to write them, and which ones HSK expects.

Practice & reading

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HSK 3.0 vocabulary by level

Seven levels in three bands. Each level opens the full word list with pinyin, audio, and meaning.

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Common characters

The 240 characters HSK 1 is built from, most frequent first. Each opens stroke order, readings, and example words.

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Know the sound but not the character? Browse all 9,565 characters by HSK level or pinyin initial.