Write Chinese Characters by Hand

Write Chinese characters online, by hand

HanziPress lets you freely write Chinese characters online, recognizes what you wrote, and preserves your original handwriting as a shareable work. There is no outline to trace and no stroke order to follow: draw the character the way you actually write it, with a mouse, a trackpad, a finger or a stylus, and the grid keeps your strokes exactly as you made them.

Chinese handwriting recognition, not a spelling test

Finish a character and HanziPress recognizes it — the same recognition that powers the site's handwriting input. You get the character it read, its pinyin and its meaning, and if it guessed wrong, one tap on the alternatives picks a better match. Nothing is marked wrong, because nothing here is being graded: this page is about what your handwriting looks like, not about whether it matches a printed example.

Your original handwriting, not a font

Most tools that claim to “save your handwriting” quietly replace it with a printed character. HanziPress keeps the strokes themselves — each one written where and how you wrote it — and redraws them on your work page and in every image it exports. What anyone who opens your link sees is your own handwriting, the way you wrote it.

Save Chinese handwriting and share it

Saving a character creates a work with its own permanent link, for example hanzipress.com/handwriting/…. Share copies the link or opens your device's share sheet; Download saves your work as an image. Both happen on your device: your handwriting is only stored when you choose to save it, and what is stored is what the link shows — your strokes and the character they spell.

No account needed

Writing, recognition, saving, downloading and sharing all work without signing in. An account only matters if you want your works collected on your own profile — something this page will grow into.

Looking for stroke order instead?

This page is the free-hand half of HanziPress. If what you want is to learn how a character should be written — the correct order, direction and shape, with tracing and feedback — that is the Chinese stroke order practice tool. Practice teaches you how to write Chinese. Handwriting lets you write it your way, keep it, and share it.