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Learn Mandarin from your first character to HSK 5.
Nine courses: Chinese 101 through 302, then HSK 4 and both halves of HSK 5. 3,950 words, each with pinyin, a meaning, a stroke breakdown, and an
example sentence. Every level is open the day you install. None of them sit behind a paywall.
Already know some Chinese? Take the placement test and skip ahead.
WAYS TO PRACTICE
Flashcards, flip and rate, scheduled by spaced repetition Recall, type the pinyin from the meaning. Match and pair the character with its meaning.
Picture Challenge: choose the image instead of the translation. Write and trace the real stroke order. Listen, hear it, and pick the character.
Dictation: hear a sentence and rebuild it.
Tones: Identify which one you just heard.
Tone Studio, say it out loud and get scored. The scoring runs on your phone, so it still works on a plane Sentence practice, vocabulary in context with the grammar behind it Read passages with audio, and tap any word to define it.
Grammar Guide: the patterns in plain language
Mock Test, a full timed HSK simulation
Review, a whole chapter with no questions attached
DAILY
One small target a day, and a streak that lights up when you hit it. Miss A day and a Jade Shield cover you.
Chapters end in a boss fight on the Trophy Road. Bao, the panda who lives in the app, reacts to how you're doing and has a wardrobe you can buy with the coins you earn. A weekly league if you like competing. A stats page if you don't.
Hearts are spent only when you lose an arena or boss battle. You get five. refilling every 30 minutes.
HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN
Widgets show words from the chapters you've unlocked, so nothing turns up. From a course you haven't opened yet. Tap to advance without unlocking your phone. Bao appears on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island while you study.
READING AND AUDIO
Passages are recorded by a cast of voices. Download a chapter, and it works. offline. Double-tap a line for the translation.
WHAT COSTS MONEY
Nothing you need. Every course, drill, and reading is free. Premium buys unlimited hearts and Jade Shields, so a rough run never stops you.
English and Bahasa Indonesia.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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What's New in Study Chinese
1.2.1
August 27, 2026
What's new (1.2.1) Tone grading three real defects fixed from your and the voice actor's recordings
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