10,000 characters ordered by frequency of use

The ultimate tool for your learning journey

Instantly see a character’s frequency and focus your effort where it matters.

Keep notes, experiences, and memory hacks organized by character.

How many characters do you know? See exactly how many characters you’ve mastered.

Recommendations for which characters to learn next, based on your current knowledge.

Quick self-evaluation with sliders

• 0% — Never encountered it.

• 1–25% — You recognize the shape, nothing more.
You’ve seen it before, but you can’t recall pronunciation or meaning.

• 26–50% — You know one piece of information.
You recognize the character and can recall either its pronunciation or its meaning.

• 50–75% — You know the basics.
You recognize it and know both its pronunciation and its meaning.

• 75–99% — Functional mastery.
You understand its use in words and context, and you can write it from memory.

• 100% — Your call.
Learning Chinese is a personal challenge. You decide what “complete mastery” means.

It's not all about memorizing, it's a journey

There will be characters you’ll have to revisit many times, and then one day something clicks. Maybe it’s a sentence from a friend. Maybe it’s a word on a menu in your favorite restaurant. Maybe it’s a story from history that suddenly anchors the meaning in your mind.

All those little moments add up.

For each character, you can collect those pieces — the memory triggers, the places you saw it, the jokes, the mistakes, the associations. Put them together in a small personal chat for every character. Over time, that chat becomes your own map of how you learned it.

And the strange thing is: those tiny fragments end up being more powerful than any mnemonic. They turn the character into part of your life.