Hanzeasy® Chinese writing for beginners

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.