Characters

2500个汉字发音笔顺Flash (By 0to12.com) Animated characters with pronunciation. Information about strokes, radical and etymology. Date: 2005-2008

Activity Builder Grab and Drop (By Winters, Jeff) Flash vocabulary exercises based on the textbook Practical Chinese Reader Book I. Date: 2004

Activity Builder Table (By Winters, Jeff) Flash vocabulary exercises based on the textbook Practical Chinese Reader Book I. Date: 2004

Animated Chinese Characters (By Xie, Tianwei) The animation of stroke order for Chinese characters. Date: Lat updated 2005

Calligraphy of Masters (By Pei, Minglong) A collection of Chinese calligraphy masterpieces and other related information about calligraphy. A good portal to Chinese calligraphy information. Date: 1995-2005

Cartoon University Learn Chinese Characters Series (By Sonic Novel) Animation for learning Chinese characters. Date: None

Character Writing Sheets for New Practical Chinese Reader Book I (By Julia Kessel) Writing sheets for Nes Practical Chinese Reader Book I. Students can print the sheets and practice writing characters. Date: None

Characters of Integrated Chinese 中文聽説讀寫 (By University of Southern California Chinese Language Program) Includes characters for the textbook Integrated Chinese. Each character is displayed by animation. Pronunciation of the characters can be heard. Pinyin and English meaning are also provide. Date: None

Chinese Calligraphy (By Chinavoc.com) An introduction to Chinese calligraphy including history, changes, styles, writing instruments and other resources. Date: 2002

Chinese Character Canon 中华字经 (By Miktam of Chinese International Inc ) Chinese Character Canon is a book of 4,000 characters which covers more than 50 subjects of fundamental knowledge for children to learn characters. Date: 2006-2007

Chinese Character FAQ (By Harbaugh, Rick) Frequently asked questions and answers about Chinese characters. Date: None

Chinese Character Flashcards (By Munro, Katherine) Chinese character flashcards Level I and II are for sale. Date: 1996 - 2004

Chinese Character Learning System (By Chu, Kai) Characters are categorized and explained in English. Date: None

Chinese Character Test (By Porte,r David) Testing your ability to know Chinese characters. Date: 2003

Chinese Character Writing Sheets (By Yin, Jinghua) Character practice sheets for Practical Chinese Reader Book I and II for downloading (pdf files). Date: None

Chinese Dictionary Radical Schemes (By Sung, Dylan) Introduction of radicals of Chinese characters in various dictionaries such as Kangxi Zidian and Xinhua Zidian. Date: 2000

Chinese Flashcards (By Peterson, Eric) A Java applet to assist in the learning of Chinese characters. The database contains 1,000 most frequently used characters. Date: None

Chinese Horizon (By Chinese Horizon Ltd. Beijing, China) Users can learn to write 3000 Chinese characters through animations and sound, in the context of phrases from lesson dialogues. Date: 2004-2005

Chinese Language & Etymology (By www.chinese-word-roots.org) A book about roots and grammar of Chinese characters. Date: 2006

Chinese Radical Names (By Xie, Tianwei) Several lists of the names of Chinese radicals. Date: 2003

Chinese Radicals (By Douwe Osinga) A simple and free program, but it is very easy and useful to use. It tests your knowledge of Chinese radicals (214). Date: 2001-2005

Chinese Writing (By Lavarini, Diana & Anna Del Franco) Introduction to Chinese characters and history. A tutorial of 12 lessons for writing characters. Date: 1999

Chinese Writing Master 4.0 (By Changjei Computer Co.) This program contains 6000 animated characters. Users can copy and paste any characters to the program and it will display animated stroke order. It also exports the stroke order pictures and saves the animation in gif files. Date: 2005

eStroke (By EON Media Limited (Hong Kong)) This program animates every Chinese character present in songti or kaiti font showing how a character is written stroke by stroke as well as stroke direction. Users just copy and paste or drag and drop the characters they see on the web or in other applications such as Word. The program will show stroke order in animation. This is a textbook-independent character learning program. Date: 2005

FanJian Traditional-Simplified Chinese Character Tutor 繁簡自通 (By University of California, Berkeley) An online program for learning simplified and traditional characters. Learners can study by themselves by doing online drills. Good for classroom use of self study. Date: None

Good Characters (By Good Characters) A company specializing in Chinese brand naming, linguistic analysis, trademark research, and corporate identity for companies doing business in Chinese speaking areas. Making personal Chinese name stamps. Date: 2004

Handbook of Stroke Order 常用國字標準字體筆順手冊 (By 教育部國語推行委員會) Stroke order table for traditional characters. Date: 1996

Hanzi (By Sung, Dylan) An introduction to Chinese script. Date: 2001

Kinds of Chinese Characters (By Liao, Jianling) Various types of characters are introduced and practiced online. Date: None

Learning Chinese (By Min-Multimedia) Introduction to writing Chinese characters. Blank writing grid is provided. Date: 2001-2004

Learning Chinese (By Adante.org) Flashcard program for downloading. Can be used for Palm. Characters from the textbook Practical Chinese Reader Book I, II and III are included. Date: Last updated 2003

Liwin's CyberChinese Calligraphy (By Winters, Jeff) Stroke Order Animations and Pronunciation for Characters in Practical Chinese Reader I. Date: None

MemChinese (By MemChinese, Inc) Character Learning Tool that includes characters from the textbooks "Chinese" and "Standard Chinese". Provides standard pronunciation in Pinyin and sound, stroke numbe,r animated characters, English meaning and phrases. In simplified characters only. CD Rom or downloading. Date: 2003

Online Chinese Talking Flashcards (By Lau, J.) An online flashcard program to learn characters. Covers the characters in the textbook Integrated Chinese, 1000 high frequency characters and HSK work list. Date: 2004-2005

Practice for order of Chinese characters 汉字笔顺练习 (By MyMadarin.com) Characters of the textbook 标准中文 (by Peoples Education Press) and 中文 (by Jinan University Press) are animated. Sound of each character can be heard. Date: 2000

Simplified characters corresponds more than two traditional characters 單個簡體字對應至少兩個繁體字的現象 (By Dix Hills Chinese Cultural Association 十峰中文学校) A list of simplified characters that corresponds to more than two traditional characters. Date: None

Sou Wen Jie Zi 搜文解字：古文字的世界 (By Academia Sinica) A web site introducing Chinese ancient script. Date: None

Table of Most Frequently Used 500 Characters (By Wang, Youqin) A list of 500 most frequently used characters. Date: None

The Chinese character and word learning system 中文字詞學習系統 (By The University of Hong Kong Dragonwise Project 2 現龍計劃) A database of more than 500 characters. Character structure and stroke order is illustrated by animation. Students can also use the online interactive exercise to enhance learning. The characters are pronounced in Cantonese, but the animation and drills can be used by Mandarin learners. Date: 2001

The Hanzi Quiz Program (By Li, Rong) An online quiz to test your ability to recognize characters. Both traditional and simplified characters can be tested. Date: 2003

The Public Face of 汉字 (By signese.com) A collection of photos showing various signs to be seen in China. Date: None

Web-based Character Learning Exercises for Elementary and Intermediate Chinese (By University of Virginia Chinese Language Program) Online exercises for learning characters of the textbook Integrated Chinese. Only intermediate level is available. Date: 2000

Words and Pictures 看圖識字 (By Min-Multimedia) Characters and pictures are presented and accompanied by a voice of a teacher and a child reading the words. Good for kids to learn. Date: 2001-2004

Write Chinese (By Thomas Yee) An online program that teaches 300 basic characters using animation. Users can trace the strokes of each character. Good for beginners. The full version is $29. Date: 2004