Characters

2500个汉字发音笔顺Flash (By 0to12.com) Animated characters with pronunciation. Information about strokes, radical and etymology. Date: 2005-2008
Activity Builder Grab and Drop (By Winters, Jeff) Flash vocabulary exercises based on the textbook Practical Chinese Reader Book I. Date: 2004
Activity Builder Table (By Winters, Jeff) Flash vocabulary exercises based on the textbook Practical Chinese Reader Book I. Date: 2004
Animated Chinese Characters (By Xie, Tianwei) The animation of stroke order for Chinese characters. Date: Lat updated 2005
Arch Chinese Learning (By lizjason.com) Arch Chinese is a free online Mandarin Chinese learning tool. It is designed to help school kids in the United States learn to read, write and speak Mandarin Chinese. Chinese fonts are needed. it animates stroke orders for more than 4000 frequently used Chinese characters, generates writing exercise sheets in PDF format, imports your own Chinese text to the tool, keeps track of characters you have studied and converts Chinese sentences to Pinyin. Date: 2008
Calligraphy of Masters (By Pei, Minglong) A collection of Chinese calligraphy masterpieces and other related information about calligraphy. A good portal to Chinese calligraphy information. Date: 1995-2005
Cartoon University Learn Chinese Characters Series (By Sonic Novel) Animation for learning Chinese characters. Date: None
Character Writing Sheets for New Practical Chinese Reader Book I (By Julia Kessel) Writing sheets for Nes Practical Chinese Reader Book I. Students can print the sheets and practice writing characters. Date: None
Characters of Integrated Chinese 中文聽説讀寫 (By University of Southern California Chinese Language Program) Includes characters for the textbook Integrated Chinese. Each character is displayed by animation. Pronunciation of the characters can be heard. Pinyin and English meaning are also provide. Date: None
Chinese Calligraphy (By Chinavoc.com) An introduction to Chinese calligraphy including history, changes, styles, writing instruments and other resources. Date: 2002
Chinese Character Canon 中华字经 (By Miktam of Chinese International Inc ) Chinese Character Canon is a book of 4,000 characters which covers more than 50 subjects of fundamental knowledge for children to learn characters. Date: 2006-2007
Chinese Character FAQ (By Harbaugh, Rick) Frequently asked questions and answers about Chinese characters. Date: None
Chinese Character Flashcards (By Munro, Katherine) Chinese character flashcards Level I and II are for sale. Date: 1996 - 2004
Chinese Character Learning System (By Chu, Kai) Characters are categorized and explained in English. Date: None
Chinese Character Test (By Porte,r David) Testing your ability to know Chinese characters. Date: 2003
Chinese Character Writing Sheets (By Yin, Jinghua) Character practice sheets for Practical Chinese Reader Book I and II for downloading (pdf files). Date: None
Chinese Dictionary Radical Schemes (By Sung, Dylan) Introduction of radicals of Chinese characters in various dictionaries such as Kangxi Zidian and Xinhua Zidian. Date: 2000
Chinese Flashcards (By Peterson, Eric) A Java applet to assist in the learning of Chinese characters. The database contains 1,000 most frequently used characters. Date: None
Chinese Horizon (By Chinese Horizon Ltd. Beijing, China) Users can learn to write 3000 Chinese characters through animations and sound, in the context of phrases from lesson dialogues. Date: 2004-2005
Chinese Language & Etymology (By www.chinese-word-roots.org) A book about roots and grammar of Chinese characters. Date: 2006
Chinese Radical Names (By Xie, Tianwei) Several lists of the names of Chinese radicals. Date: 2003
Chinese Radicals (By Douwe Osinga) A simple and free program, but it is very easy and useful to use. It tests your knowledge of Chinese radicals (214). Date: 2001-2005
Chinese Writing (By Lavarini, Diana & Anna Del Franco) Introduction to Chinese characters and history. A tutorial of 12 lessons for writing characters. Date: 1999
Chinese Writing Master 4.0 (By Changjei Computer Co.) This program contains 6000 animated characters. Users can copy and paste any characters to the program and it will display animated stroke order. It also exports the stroke order pictures and saves the animation in gif files. Date: 2005
Chinse Calligraphy Editor 中文書法 (By Chinese-tools.com) One of the tools in Chinese-Tools.com that creates Chinese Calligraphy with a character, a word, a sentence or any text. Choose the size, style, orientation, simplified or traditional Chinese characters. Date: 2008
EPen 一筆通 (By Royal epen International Corp.) A system that includes writing tools and software which can elaborate the characteristics of both calligraphy-brush and ball-point pen writing. It saves and replays the writing traces.it can be used to learn, teach and write traditional calligraphy. It can also be used to create Chinese painting. Date: Unknown
eStroke (By EON Media Limited (Hong Kong)) This program animates every Chinese character present in songti or kaiti font showing how a character is written stroke by stroke as well as stroke direction. Users just copy and paste or drag and drop the characters they see on the web or in other applications such as Word. The program will show stroke order in animation. This is a textbook-independent character learning program. Date: 2005
FanJian Traditional-Simplified Chinese Character Tutor 繁簡自通 (By University of California, Berkeley) An online program for learning simplified and traditional characters. Learners can study by themselves by doing online drills. Good for classroom use of self study. Date: None
Free Mandarin Chinese Flash cards (By Marianne Wartoft AB) Free flash cards for learning Chinese words and exercises for children and beginners. Available subjects: Body parts , Cities , Clothes , Colors , Countries , Directions , Drinks , Electronics , Food , Fruits , Furniture , Nature , Numbers , Restaurant , Toys , Weather & Space , Vegetables , Vehicles Date: 2007
Good Characters (By Good Characters) A company specializing in Chinese brand naming, linguistic analysis, trademark research, and corporate identity for companies doing business in Chinese speaking areas. Making personal Chinese name stamps. Date: 2004
Handbook of Stroke Order 常用國字標準字體筆順手冊 (By 教育部國語推行委員會) Stroke order table for traditional characters. Date: 1996
Hanzi (By Sung, Dylan) An introduction to Chinese script. Date: 2001
iChinese 爱中文 (By American iChinese Language Institute ) Character learning textbook for kids (5-12 years). Date: None
Kinds of Chinese Characters (By Liao, Jianling) Various types of characters are introduced and practiced online. Date: None
Learn to Read and Write Chinese Characters (By LearnChineseEZ.com) Learn traditional and simplified characters. Character stroke order is presented by animation with other information. Date: 2008
Learning Chinese (By Min-Multimedia) Introduction to writing Chinese characters. Blank writing grid is provided. Date: 2001-2004
Learning Chinese (By Adante.org) Flashcard program for downloading. Can be used for Palm. Characters from the textbook Practical Chinese Reader Book I, II and III are included. Date: Last updated 2003
Learning Program for Stroke Order of Frequetly Used Chinese Characters 常用國字標準字體筆順學習網（附注音符號筆順） (By Ministry of Education, ROC (Taiwan) 國語會) This website contains 4,808 of the most frequently used Mandarin characters. Users can click the search function to enter the home page to browse the character stroke order or to practice their selected characters. Date: 2007
Liwin's CyberChinese Calligraphy (By Winters, Jeff) Stroke Order Animations and Pronunciation for Characters in Practical Chinese Reader I. Date: None
MemChinese (By MemChinese, Inc) Character Learning Tool that includes characters from the textbooks "Chinese" and "Standard Chinese". Provides standard pronunciation in Pinyin and sound, stroke numbe,r animated characters, English meaning and phrases. In simplified characters only. CD Rom or downloading. Date: 2003
Online Chinese Talking Flashcards (By Lau, J.) An online flashcard program to learn characters. Covers the characters in the textbook Integrated Chinese, 1000 high frequency characters and HSK work list. Date: 2004-2005
Practice for order of Chinese characters 汉字笔顺练习 (By MyMadarin.com) Characters of the textbook 标准中文 (by Peoples Education Press) and 中文 (by Jinan University Press) are animated. Sound of each character can be heard. Date: 2000
Print traditional character stroke order sheet 自編國小生字簿 (By 臺北縣政府教育局) Print traditional character stroke order sheet with bopomofo and other online materials for teaching Chinese children Date: None
Simplified characters corresponds more than two traditional characters 單個簡體字對應至少兩個繁體字的現象 (By Dix Hills Chinese Cultural Association 十峰中文学校) A list of simplified characters that corresponds to more than two traditional characters. Date: None
Skritter (By Unknown) An online program allowing students to practice writing characters. Date: Unknown
Sou Wen Jie Zi 搜文解字：古文字的世界 (By Academia Sinica) A web site introducing Chinese ancient script. Date: None
Table of Most Frequently Used 500 Characters (By Wang, Youqin) A list of 500 most frequently used characters. Date: None
The Chinese character and word learning system 中文字詞學習系統 (By The University of Hong Kong Dragonwise Project 2 現龍計劃) A database of more than 500 characters. Character structure and stroke order is illustrated by animation. Students can also use the online interactive exercise to enhance learning. The characters are pronounced in Cantonese, but the animation and drills can be used by Mandarin learners. Date: 2001
The Hanzi Quiz Program (By Li, Rong) An online quiz to test your ability to recognize characters. Both traditional and simplified characters can be tested. Date: 2003
The Public Face of 汉字 (By signese.com) A collection of photos showing various signs to be seen in China. Date: None
Web-based Character Learning Exercises for Elementary and Intermediate Chinese (By University of Virginia Chinese Language Program) Online exercises for learning characters of the textbook Integrated Chinese. Only intermediate level is available. Date: 2000
Words and Pictures 看圖識字 (By Min-Multimedia) Characters and pictures are presented and accompanied by a voice of a teacher and a child reading the words. Good for kids to learn. Date: 2001-2004
Write Chinese (By Thomas Yee) An online program that teaches 300 basic characters using animation. Users can trace the strokes of each character. Good for beginners. The full version is $29. Date: 2004
《mouse》Chinse Input Editor 手寫輸入漢字 (By Chinese-tool.com) Write Chinese Characters. This tool allows one to enter Chinese character by writing it on the screen with the mouse cursor. Very useful for checking a character when pronunciation is unknown. Date: 2008
立体化规范汉字书写方法与训练 (By 高等教育出版社高等教育电子音像出版社) Standards for writing Chinese characters including stroke order, simplified characters, writing styles, etc. Date: Unknown