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Chinese Text Lab
Paste Chinese text to get words, pinyin, English meanings and HSK levels. Save what you need to your study list, export it, or keep practising the whole passage.
Paste a lesson, message, article or subtitle. Your text stays in this browser.
Your word list will appear here.
Analyze the sample or paste your own Chinese text to see words, pinyin, meanings and HSK levels.
From a passage to a study list
01 · Break
Find the words
The passage is segmented with the same HSK word dictionary used across the site, so 银行 keeps its bank reading instead of becoming yín xíng.
02 · Understand
Read the result
Compare pinyin, English meaning, HSK level and how often each word appears. Audio is available from the recorded library, with browser speech as a fallback.
03 · Remember
Save and practise
Select the words worth learning, add them to spaced repetition, copy or download the list, or send the original passage to the typing studio.
Questions
- Does Text Lab upload my Chinese text?
- No. Word segmentation, pinyin and dictionary lookup run in your browser. The only data request is the dictionary file; the text itself is never included.
- What do I get after pasting a passage?
- You get a de-duplicated word list with pinyin, English meanings, HSK levels, occurrence counts and audio. You can save selected words, copy the list, download a CSV, or send the original passage to typing practice.
- Why can a reading be wrong outside the dictionary?
- Chinese readings depend on words, not isolated characters. NihaoLearn matches the HSK word dictionary first, then falls back to a character reading. Text outside that dictionary may be ambiguous, so the converter lets you correct that occurrence before saving or practising.
- Does it work with traditional characters?
- The dictionary is built around the simplified HSK vocabulary used by the main English site. Unmapped traditional text remains visible and is reported as outside the dictionary instead of being silently dropped.