Free online handwriting practice

Chinese Character Writing Practice

Search any Chinese character or word by hanzi, pinyin, or English. Trace it with stroke-order guidance, or write it from memory on a blank grid — your original handwriting stays on the page, and you can save it as an image when you finish.

Try:
你好
nǐ hǎo
hello; hi
HSK 1
你
nǐ
you, second person pronoun
7 strokes
HSK 1
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How to practice Chinese handwriting

Practice Chinese characters online: search by hanzi, pinyin, or English, or draw a character you cannot type. Pronunciation, meanings, and HSK 3.0 levels are shown while you practice.

Trace Chinese characters with stroke-order guidance

New to a character? Trace it first. Each stroke is checked as you write — wrong strokes shake and ask for a retry, correct strokes are recorded on the grid — and Watch demo replays the standard form any time.

Write Chinese characters from memory

When tracing feels too easy, switch to Write. The outline disappears: you write the character from memory on a blank grid, the way a test asks you to. Every stroke is still checked for order and direction, so the character is only complete when each stroke lands where it belongs.

Your original handwriting stays on the page

Most stroke-order tools fade each stroke you write and replace it with the printed form. HanziPress keeps your original handwriting on the grid: when you finish, the character on the page is the one you wrote — your own strokes — so you can compare it with the standard character and see what to fix.

Save your handwriting as an image

Save the finished character as an image: your handwritten character on a practice grid, with your name and the practice date — a record of your handwriting practice you can keep or share.

A practiced Chinese character 好 written from memory: the learner's original handwriting stays on the practice grid, saved as an image with a name and the practice date.
Finish writing and the character stays as you wrote it — save it as an image, a dated record of your handwriting practice.

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