Learn, read, write and pronounce Mandarin by drawing stroke order in Anki — with HSK 1–9 audio, pinyin tone colors and a browser-based deck generator.
🔗 krmanik.github.io/Anki-xiehanzi
Works in Anki Desktop, AnkiDroid and AnkiMobile.
- Download a ready-made deck — New HSK (2025) covering HSK 3.0 levels 1–9. See below.
- Build your own — the Create
tool turns any Chinese words into a custom
.apkg, in your browser, no account or upload.
Browse every HSK word list — Old HSK (2012) levels 1–6 and New HSK 3.0 (2025) levels 1–9 — with tone-coloured hanzi and pinyin, zhuyin, traditional forms, part of speech, classifiers and frequency. Any level downloads free as CSV, Excel, Word, PDF, plain text or JSON, or opens straight in the deck creator as an Anki deck with audio and example sentences. The same page holds the ready-made decks below.
Premium decks and extras are available at the Patreon shop.
Import via File → Import in Anki.
Warning
Make a backup of your collection (with scheduling information) before importing.
krmanik.github.io/Anki-xiehanzi/create
Generate a deck from typed words, pasted paragraphs, an uploaded file, or a full
HSK / BCT / YCT level. The tool segments the text, looks up each word in
CC-CEDICT, lets you customize card types, fields and appearance with a live
preview, then exports a self-contained .apkg (audio, fonts and stroke data
bundled — works offline once imported). Everything runs client-side.
See Export a Deck for the walkthrough.
- Draw and practice stroke order (powered by Hanzi Writer)
- Simplified and traditional characters
- Pinyin (tone-marked) and Zhuyin (Bopomofo), with tone colors
- Colored strokes and characters
- HSK 1–9 audio plus text-to-speech
- CC-CEDICT definitions, part of speech, radical, breakdown, HSK level and frequency
- Smart example sentences
- Night mode; adjustable character size and stroke width
- Show / hide Simplified, Traditional, Pinyin or Meaning per card
- Decks sorted in frequency order
- External lookups: Pleco, HanziCraft, mnemonics
- Load indicator at the bottom (
green = loaded, red = error / not loaded)
Some setting changes take effect on the next card.
View the docs — features, studying tips, exporting a deck, and FAQ.
Note
The old (v1) version of the site is still available at krmanik.github.io/Anki-xiehanzi/v1. It is archived for reference and no longer updated.
Previous decks (2021-03) — five legacy types, click to view
Separate decks for each type:
- Stroke order
- Meaning
- Pinyin / Zhuyin
- Pronunciation (audio + Pinyin / Zhuyin)
Sorted in frequency order. Download
Five card types per HSK-level note: stroke order, meaning, pinyin/zhuyin, pronunciation, tone marks.
Sorted in frequency order. Download
Same five card types as Type 2, but sorted in alphabetical pinyin order.
Not frequency-sorted. Download
Single note type — front: pinyin + meaning; back: writing component.
Not frequency-sorted. Download
HSK 2.0 deck.
Not frequency-sorted. Download
Stroke drawing uses the Hanzi Writer JavaScript library. Its character and stroke-order data is derived from Make Me a Hanzi.
This is a JavaScript implementation that works because Anki renders flashcards in a webview. It may not work on every device. Make backups (with scheduling information) before importing. Some audio files are missing; they can be regenerated with text-to-speech using gtts-textToMp3.
See CONTRIBUTING.md or the Contributing docs page. Wrong word, pinyin or meaning? Those live in the HSK-3.0-words-list submodule — fix them there.
More decks by the author: AnkiWeb.
Author: Mani (krmanik). MIT License and GPL 3.0. Third-party licenses: License.md.
Part of the code in this project was generated with AI (Claude Opus 4.8).