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Chinese Stroke Order and Practice Sheets
Explore up to 20 Chinese characters with animated strokes, numbered steps, pinyin and a tracing quiz. Print A4 or Letter worksheets with cross or diagonal guides.
Chinese Stroke Order and Practice Sheets: Type up to 20 Chinese characters and watch each one written stroke by stroke, with its stroke count, pinyin and numbered step-by-step panels. Practise by tracing on screen while the tool checks each stroke, then print a worksheet with the stroke steps and 田字格 or 米字格 practice boxes. Stroke order and counts follow the mainland China standard (for example, 艹 and 辶 have 3 strokes); Taiwan and Hong Kong school standards differ for some characters. Runs 100% locally in your browser with zero server file uploads.
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Watch each character, follow the numbered steps, then trace it in the quiz or on paper. Pinyin can vary by context; check names and rare readings.
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Stroke-order worksheet
Print at 100% with browser headers and footers off, or choose Save as PDF. Each character gets its own page; the first two boxes in each practice row are for tracing.
Stroke data: Make Me a Hanzi, derived from Arphic fonts under the Arphic Public License. Make Me a Hanzi · Data licence · hanzi-writer by David Chanin, MIT. Library licence
Stroke data and animation
Stroke data comes from the Make Me a Hanzi project, derived from Arphic fonts under the Arphic Public License. The collection supplies both stroke outlines and paths used to check tracing. https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi . The bundled data licence is available at /data/chinese-stroke-order/ARPHICPL.TXT .
Animation and the tracing quiz use hanzi-writer by David Chanin, licensed under MIT. https://hanziwriter.org/ . The quiz is a practice aid; it does not grade handwriting quality.
Practice grids and readings
Cross guides divide each square into four parts. Diagonal guides add corner-to-corner lines to help place sloping strokes. For a full page of empty grids, use Tian Zi Ge Paper.
Pinyin is a reading aid, and characters may have several readings. Use the pinyin converter for longer text and check uncertain readings in a dictionary. The sample stroke counts were cross-checked against the Zdic character dictionary: https://www.zdic.net/ .
How to use it
- Enter up to 20 characters and check which have stroke data.
- Play, pause or step through each character; try the tracing quiz.
- Choose a practice grid and paper size, then print or save as PDF from the print dialogue.
Privacy & limitations
Your text stays in your browser. Stroke data is loaded from this site; nothing is uploaded.
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Frequently asked questions
Why is a character missing?
The stroke collection does not cover every character or variant. Missing characters are labelled and omitted from the printed worksheet.
Is pinyin always unambiguous?
No. Readings can depend on the surrounding words. Check names and rare readings with a dictionary or teacher.
How do I save a PDF?
Choose Print / save as PDF, then Save as PDF in your browser’s print dialogue. Use 100% scale and turn off headers and footers.
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