HSK Stroke Order vs LingoWonders

Most stroke-order apps play you an animation and hope for the best. This one makes you write. Draw each stroke with your finger. It is accepted only if it starts in the right place, ends in the right place, stays close to the center line, and comes at the right point in the sequence. Draw 一 from right to left and it fails — direction is half of what stroke order means. Draw a stroke that belongs later in the character and the app tells you which one it was. VERIFIED, NOT GUESSED Every character here has been checked against GB/T 39100-2020, the national stroke-order standard issued by the Ministry of Education and the State Language Commission. 3,075 characters pass that check automatically. The other 13 were reviewed by hand, stroke by stroke, and the app marks them, so you always know which is which. The Sources tab names all 13 and shows the whole method: the standard, the character inventory, how each character was tested, the licenses, and the measured accuracy of the check. WHAT'S INSIDE • 3,088 characters from the current HSK 3.0 character syllabus, bands 1 through 7–9 • 1,200 marked 手写字 — the ones the exam asks you to write by hand, not merely recognize • 9,371 syllabus words • The official stroke-order code (笔顺编码) for every character, spelled out stroke by stroke with names: 横 竖 撇 点 折 LEARN Watch the character written on a 米字格 grid — a brush sweeping along each stroke's center line, not an outline fading in. Pause, step, scrub, change speed, or reveal the finished character. Tap any stroke to jump straight to it. Search by character, word, pinyin (with or without tones) or English meaning. Every character shows its radical, its meaning, and the syllabus words that use it. PRACTICE Pick a band, or let the app choose what you have met but not yet mastered. Two wrong attempts bring up a guide stroke with a starting dot. "Show me" replays the whole character. A character counts as mastered after three faultless writings — three, and faultless, not three views. The rules behind the order are there too, with a worked example for each: 先横后竖, 先撇后捺, 从上到下, 先外后内, 先里头后封口. PROGRESS Mastery rings per band, and an honest count of what you have actually written correctly rather than what you have looked at. FREE TO START Your first 50 characters are free, with everything: the animation, the stroke code and the writing practice. Every character you open stays free for good. A single in-app purchase unlocks all the others. No subscription. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE No account and no sign-up. The entire dataset ships inside the app, so it works on a plane, on the subway, and anywhere else. Your progress file never leaves your device. — Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the HSK examination authorities. Stroke graphics derive from Make Me a Hanzi under the Arphic Public License; definitions from CC-CEDICT under CC BY-SA 4.0. Full attribution is inside the app.

Learn Chinese, Japanese, Korean or English words, write them stroke by stroke, and print real practice sheets. LingoWonders is for learners, parents and teachers. Stroke order, voice and writing practice are free. There is no subscription, no ads and no account. READ — LESSONS FROM YOUR OWN MATERIAL Photograph a page, paste text, open a web page and LingoWonders makes a lesson. Listen sentence by sentence, tap a word to look it up, record yourself beside the app voice, save words. Stories in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean are included; they and a daily allowance of your own articles are free. FOR LEARNERS — FREE • Stroke-order animation, and a free stroke-by-stroke writing check on screen with a finger or Apple Pencil (Chinese, kana and hangul) • HSK 3.0 levels 1–3: about 2,200 words in free decks, Simplified and Traditional. Levels 4–6 are in Pro • Every word shows its reading (pinyin, kana, romanization, US IPA for English), its meaning and a speaker button • Flashcards, and dictation that reads each word aloud; words you miss come back for review • Choose the stroke-order standard for each list: China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan or Japanese kanji • Search by word, reading or meaning — "shui" finds 水 FOR PARENTS — THE WEEKLY SPELLING LOOP 1. Photograph the school word list. Photo lists are free and unlimited, the photo stays with the list, and long sentences and stories stay whole. 2. Your child runs the dictation alone, with your own voice recordings or the app voice. English has US, UK, Australian and Singapore voices and "Spell it aloud". 3. Print a test sheet. Every page is free. 4. Paper Check (beta): photograph the finished test. LingoWonders shows what it read, and you mark each answer. It does not mark for you. 3 checks are free, then Pro. The This week tab keeps one card per list and shows the next step as one button. Share a list by link, QR code or file, free. LIBRARY Tao Nan School P1 spelling and 听写 lists, and thousands more words from preschool to A level. The Chinese library has about 7,200 words, including HSK 1–6. PRINT PRACTICE SHEETS — FREE, AS MANY AS YOU LIKE • 田字格 tian-grid sheets with 描红 tracing, and pinyin over the characters • Print with AirPrint, share a PDF or save an image. Free exports contain page 1 of each sheet and a small App Store QR code LINGOWONDERS PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Every page of every sheet (free prints page 1) • Stroke-order sheets (笔顺) and stroke-order strips • Combined PDF: several sheet types in one file • More fonts: 标准楷书 textbook kai, School print and Sloped print • Blue, red, green and purple trace ink, and trace fade • Paper Check beyond the 3 free ones, more profiles, and your choice to keep the small QR on your sheets or print clean pages. One Pro covers the whole family with Family Sharing • Read without limits: unlimited articles, longer texts and more recordings • HSK 4–6 decks Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. AI features such as Paper Check run on our servers and cost us per use, so they have a fair-use limit that may change over time. Everything else works offline. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no account, no subscription. Your words, lists and practice stay on your device, and LingoWonders works offline. The exceptions are Paper Check, reading words from a photo in the cloud, and example sentences: they send the photo or the words to our server and Google's Gemini model, and nothing is stored on our server. Read fetches a web page on your device only when you ask, and nothing from Read is uploaded to our servers. iPhone and iPad, in 12 languages. Questions or ideas? Write to lei@appfactory.sg — a real person reads every message.