Hanzeasy® Chinese writing for beginners

master the first basic strokes of Chinese characters, starting with the horizontal Hun and the vertical stroke, and learn to write and combine characters 1, 2, 3, and 10.

Learn combining strokes—hunch, shuja, and vertical hook—while practicing without lifting the pen, building on basic strokes to write characters like mouse, mountain, four, and small.

Lesson 4 introduces two more combining strokes—the horizontal turning hook and the lying hook—practicing writing the door and heart characters and using mnemonic images to memorize their shapes.

Learn two combining strokes, horizontal to left falling and left falling to dot, and practice writing characters like 你 and 水. Future videos will explain radical concepts.

Learn last three strokes in Hanzeasy Chinese writing for beginners—left-falling turning, horizontal with turning, and vertical hook with dots—and practice writing four characters, then post a video to test yourself.

Learn stroke order rules, including first horizontal then vertical, and the measure word good between numbers and objects, with practice writing four characters.

Master stroke order rules: write from top to bottom and left to right, place horizontal strokes first, then practice characters and memorize shapes with a short video test.

Master stroke order rules for Chinese characters, including writing the outer box before the inside, and sequencing vertical, horizontal, turn, and dots.

Explore four single-structure characters: sky or day, gas or air, negation, and a preposition meaning at, with stroke-by-stroke practice.

Practice four single-structure characters, including nin for you, with stroke order and mnemonic shapes. Learn to describe dates by year, month, and day, reading numbers digit by digit.

Learn four new single-structure characters in hanzeasy chinese writing, with stroke-order, pronunciation notes, and tone guidance for xi, c, war, and nu, post a video and take a test.

Learn compound structure in Chinese by combining building-block components. Practice left-right and left-middle-right patterns with examples like ni hao and thank you.

This lesson introduces two new structures for compound characters: a top-bottom shell and a top-middle-bottom layout, with practice writing and visuals to memorize home, star, and mountain.

Master compound structure characters in Hanzeasy Chinese writing for beginners by learning semi enclosure and complete enclosure patterns, writing the enclosure first before the inner component.

Explore radicals as key components that indicate meaning in Chinese characters, and practice the water and speech radicals, noting about 200 radicals with 18 commonly used.

Learn two new Chinese radicals, including the walking radical and the door radical, practice their stroke order, and see how they form characters and measure words like room.

Explore two new Chinese radicals in lesson 22—the frame and enclosure radical for forming prison and the show radical for vision—plus practice writing example characters.

Explore two new Chinese radicals, including an ear/knife looking radical and a rain related radical, and see how they form moon and sun characters and the yin yang concept.

Explore two new Chinese radicals—the woman radical and the food radical—and learn to form characters like mum, elder sister, rice/meal, and restaurant using phonetic components and mnemonic storytelling.

Learn two new Chinese radicals: the sun and the moon, focusing on left-right placement and examples like bright, look, and to stare, with practice writing four characters.

Explore new radicals in lesson 26 of Hanzeasy Chinese writing for beginners: the flesh radical and the t shell palm hand radical, forming belly and liver characters with phonetic parts.