About this app

Learn how to write thousands of Chinese characters - it's educational, entertaining and addictive!

Characters fall from the top of the screen — tap them and draw them correctly to score points. Just don't let them reach the bottom, or—kaboom! Lose three and the game is over, but the learning continues: you can review everything that you saw, complete with stroke order diagrams and practice at your own pace. Characters you made the most mistakes on are highlighted at the top of the list.

⇨ It's more than a game!

✓ trainchinese Chinese Writer can test you on more than 5,000 Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters, and features stroke-order diagrams, English explanations and high quality audio recordings for every pronunciation of each one.

✓ The app remembers which characters you've had trouble writing and prioritises them in future games.

⇨ It's suitable for everyone!

✓ Characters are divided into packs by difficulty according to the official HSK standard. Hundreds are included in this free download.

✓ Create your own packs by searching for characters by Pinyin. You can even mix Pinyin, English and Chinese characters in one search to find as many results as possible, and one tap adds them all to your custom pack.

✓ Your kids can play. Your grandmother can too. Now everyone can enjoy the pleasure of learning this beautiful system of writing.

✓ Whatever your writing level, you'll improve with trainchinese Chinese Writer. Beginners can start with simpler characters and at a slower pace, while experienced students will blaze their way through those HSK 4 hanzi!

⇨ It's connected!

✓ Create your own character packs and share them with friends by email.

✓ Feeling proud of yourself? Share your high score with your friends via Twitter and Facebook.

✓ Already a trainchinese user? Download the characters you're learning into trainchinese Chinese Writer for free!

Learn to write Chinese characters with trainchinese Chinese Writer. It's educational, entertaining - and addictive!

⇨ We'd love to hear what you think about Chinese Writer. Contact us any time at cs@trainchinese.com!

New features

This update adds automatic syncing of learning progress and streak history for logged-in trainchinese users. You can now learn seamlessly across multiple devices, and schools can more easily share one device with multiple accounts. Thanks for playing!

App Permissions

Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows access to the vibrator.