Resources

Look up the translation of Chinese words (typed in characters or in pinyin, for example ni3hao3) or French words. Based on the CC-CEDICT dictionary, enriched and translated into French (over 115,000 entries), it displays the characters and the pinyin pronunciation.

Open the dictionary

Transcribe your first name or family name into Chinese characters based on its pronunciation, choosing the gender and the language of origin. You get the pinyin, the meaning of the characters and the option to generate a calligraphy of it.

Transcribe my first name

Create A4 writing grids — 米字格 (Mizige), 田字格 (Tianzige) or empty squares — with the font of your choice. The tool generates a PDF to download and print so you can practice writing characters.

Create a grid

Assess the difficulty of a Chinese text against character thresholds (Belassen LV3 to LV1 lists and the Junda frequency list). Each character is colored according to your level — active, passive or beyond the threshold — so you know whether the text suits a learner.

Analyze a text

Generate the stroke-by-stroke decomposition of a Chinese character, with arrows showing the order and direction of each stroke. Adjust the size and the background, then download the resulting image.

Decompose a character

Create Chinese review games and have your class play them: on the board with a projector, or on the students’ smartphones via a QR code (avatars, race and podium). Seven question types, including character handwriting, Memory and rebuilding characters from their components.

Discover the games

Compose your Chinese seal (印章 yìnzhāng) from your name in characters: two versions, yin (characters carved away) and yang (characters left standing), in 方篆 fāngzhuàn seal script. Transparent PNG images, ready to download.

Create my seal