Know Chinese vs Leafy

See a Chinese character in a short video, menu, class, or travel sign—and want to know what it means and how to write it? Know Chinese turns Mandarin vocabulary into a simple, swipeable learning experience. Explore useful Chinese characters and words selected around your level and goals, then open any item to study its pinyin, English meaning, pronunciation, examples, HSK level, radicals, stroke count, and correct stroke order. LEARN CHINESE YOUR WAY Choose why you are learning Mandarin—travel, work, study, HSK preparation, Chinese culture, or simple curiosity. Your personalized Chinese vocabulary feed gives you a focused place to start instead of an overwhelming dictionary list. UNDERSTAND EVERY CHARACTER • Search in English, pinyin, Chinese characters, or Chinese words • Use pinyin with tone marks, tone numbers, or no tones • Read clear English meanings and practical example sentences • Hear Mandarin pronunciation with your device's speech voice • See HSK level, radical, and stroke-count information • Browse characters by pinyin, radical, or number of strokes MASTER CHINESE STROKE ORDER Watch each Hanzi come together one stroke at a time. Replay the animation and adjust its speed when you need a closer look. Clear writing guides help beginners understand stroke direction, character structure, and the correct writing sequence. PRACTICE WRITING WITH FEEDBACK Write Chinese characters directly on the practice grid and receive feedback on stroke accuracy, shape and direction, position and alignment, and writing pace. Try again, move to the next character, or save your result to track your improvement. BUILT FOR REAL-LIFE MANDARIN Whether you are learning Chinese for beginners, reviewing HSK vocabulary, preparing for a trip to China, studying Chinese handwriting, following Chinese culture, or looking up a word you saw in a short video, Know Chinese helps you move from recognition to understanding—and from understanding to writing. YOUR CHINESE DICTIONARY, READY ANYWHERE Core dictionary and stroke-order data are stored on your device, so you can search, study, and practice without depending on an internet connection. Save favorite characters and words for quick review, and share useful entries with friends. Start with one word. Swipe to the next. Learn how Chinese characters work—and learn to write them with confidence.

Leafy teaches you a language through stories. Pick the language, your level and what you like, and Leafy's AI writes a story just for you, chapter by chapter. Tap a word or long-press a sentence for an instant explanation in your own language, and save the ones you want to keep to your vocabulary notebook for review. Good for you if • textbooks bore you and real books are still too hard • you want to read a little every day, about things you actually like • you want to learn words in context, not from lists What you get • 12 languages: English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Korean • Stories at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, in chapters sized to your daily goal • Tap-to-explain words and long-press-to-explain sentences (interface in English, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese) • An AI tutor you can ask more about the story • Classic novels retold at your level • Vocabulary notebook with review mode, reading streaks and your growing forest • Book clubs to read with friends, and reminders to keep going Start for free. Leafy Premium is a monthly subscription billed to your Apple ID that renews automatically each month. Cancel anytime in iPhone Settings › Subscriptions; after cancelling you keep access until the end of the current period. Stories and explanations are generated by AI. Terms https://readleafy.com/terms · Privacy https://readleafy.com/privacy · hello@readleafy.com