Mandarin HSK 1–3

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Each style trains one skill: 读 reading, 说 recall or 听 listening. Every skill keeps its own progress.

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How it works

598 words from HSK 1, 2 and 3. Each card has the characters, pinyin, English and Hungarian meanings, and example sentences you can listen to.

Study a card

Tap the card to show the meanings and example sentences; tap the characters at the top to hide them again. Taps on the meanings themselves leave them open.
Swipe right or press I know it when you know the word. Swipe left or press Still learning when you don't. Skip moves on without marking.
Read aloud speaks the word, then its example sentences. The small speaker on each sentence plays just that sentence.
Made a mistake? The undo arrow next to the card counter takes back the last answer.

Choose what to study

All cards: Every word in the chosen level, in order. Use the shuffle icon to mix them.
Due: Words that are ready for review today. Each right answer sends a word further: it comes back after 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60 and then 120 days. It stays Learning until its next review is a week or more away, and only then counts as Known. A word you miss goes back to Learning and comes back the same day.
Hard, Good, Easy: When the answer is showing, three buttons say how well you knew it, each with when the card comes back. Good is the same as “I know it”. Easy skips a step, Hard keeps the same wait. Keys: H Hard, → Good, E Easy.
Learning: Words you marked “Still learning”.
New: Cards you have not answered yet.
Hardest: The 20 words you have missed most often.

The level buttons (All, 1, 2, 3) narrow every mode to one HSK level.

Practice styles

汉字 → meaning: See the Chinese, recall the meaning.
Meaning → 汉字: See English and Hungarian, say the Chinese word, then tap to check.
Listening: Hear the word, guess it, then tap to see it.
Multiple choice: Pick the right meaning from four. A right answer counts as “I know it”.
汉字 only: Only the characters show; pinyin, tone colours and audio appear when you tap the card. Use it for words you can say but cannot read yet. A word card's back also has Practice these sentences, which opens just that word's example sentences in the current style.
Build the sentence: Sentences only. The translation shows, with the sentence's words shuffled below it: tap them in order (tap a placed word, or press Backspace, to take it back). A right order counts as “I know it” toward recall. Another order can still be correct Chinese, so a mismatch shows the sentence and you mark it yourself.
Typing the answer: In Meaning → 汉字 (words) you can type the pinyin and press Enter: tone numbers (xue2sheng) or tone marks (xuésheng) both work, and neutral tones can be left out. A right answer counts as “I know it”. T jumps to the box.
Similar words: Words only. The meaning shows (🔊 plays the word); pick the right one among words that look or sound alike, such as 买 mǎi “buy” and 卖 mài “sell”, 他 / 她 / 它, or 大 / 太. Only the about 135 words that have such a twin are in this deck; it counts toward reading.
Fill the gap: One of the word's example sentences with the word blanked out, and its translation. Pick the word that fits from four of the same length; keys 1–4 pick. Words only; it counts toward reading.
Tone pairs: Hear a two-syllable word, then pick both of its tones, such as 2 + 1 for 学生 xuéshēng. Each chip writes the word in those tones; one of the wrong ones shares the first tone, another the second. Only the about 295 words with two full tones are in this deck (no neutral tone, no 3 + 3 pair, which is said as 2 + 3); it counts toward listening.
Which tone?: Hear the word, then pick the tone of its first syllable from the four written forms; keys 1–4 pick tones 1–4. Words only. The 21 words whose first syllable is neutral, or changes tone when it is spoken (你好, 可以), come up as normal cards.
Tap a word: In any example sentence, and on sentence cards, the words from HSK 1–3 have a dotted underline. Tap one to see its pinyin and meaning; tap elsewhere or press Esc to close it. On a word card the word itself is highlighted instead.
Sync button: On the website, once you sign in under Settings → Sync across devices, a ⟳ button appears in the top bar. Tap it to sync now; it spins while syncing, and a dot means changes are waiting to upload. Progress also syncs on its own.
What's new: The “What’s new” link at the bottom of the page (and Settings → What's new) opens the list of every version at any time.
Chinese labels: Buttons and headings carry their Chinese name (复习 fùxí = Due, 我会了 wǒ huì le = I know it), so you pick up everyday words as you use the app. Settings → Interface labels switches between 中文 + English, English, and 中文 only; hover or long-press a label to see its pinyin.
Translations: Settings → Languages shows the meanings in English, Hungarian, German, Spanish and Romanian, each Off, Show or Rehearse. At least one stays on; the first one on is the base meaning in quizzes and multiple choice. Search finds words in all five.
Rehearse (温习): Set a language you already know to Rehearse in Settings → Languages. Its words then get their own marks: a card shows the Chinese and asks for the word in that language. These cards come up every few cards in the word deck, as a 5-card round after your daily goal, in their own practice style, and in a daily quest. The language also takes the main meaning's place on part of the cards (the slider sets how many), and its words can be read aloud.
读说听: On each card and in the word list, three small seals show the card's mark in every skill: 读 reading, 说 recall (meaning → Chinese), 听 listening. Green is Known, amber Learning, an outline New; the skill you are practising has a ring. The tag next to them names that skill's mark.
Your panda: The panda at the top left lives on your studying. Every answer feeds it a bamboo leaf, your daily goal fills its belly, and all your answers together make it grow from newborn to sage. Tap it to see how it is doing and to give it a name.
Word of the day: Each day a useful word you do not know yet appears as a chip in the Today row; tap it to see the word. “Study it” opens it; ✕ hides it until tomorrow.
Daily quests: Three small goals each day, shown in the progress view. Each finished quest gives 30 XP; all three give 50 XP more and a 🧊 streak freeze. You can save two, and a saved freeze keeps your streak alive over a missed day. Every Monday a short recap of last week appears.
Ladder (阶梯): Real-life steps such as greeting people, ordering food or asking the way, each with a small set of words. A step is reached when you know all its words in reading and listening (读 and 听); take them in any order, each one is worth 40 XP. The strip on the main screen shows the next step and how many words it still needs; Practise studies just those words. The Ladder tab in the progress view shows every step, and on wide screens a narrow ladder on the right shows your climb and your rank.
Seals and challenges: The progress view collects 20 red seals (印章) for milestones such as 100 words, a 7-day streak or a passed exam, each worth 50 XP. Its challenges are a 60-second blitz (as many meanings as you can) and a 20-question exam per HSK level (pass at 80%). Challenges never change your review schedule.
Character hints: The back of a word card explains its characters where a well-established explanation exists (about 180 characters): a picture (山 mountain peaks), a combination of meanings (休 a person resting by a tree), or a meaning part plus a sound part (妈 = 女 woman + 马 mǎ for the sound).
Travel (旅): A pack of everyday words for modern China that are not in HSK 1–3: paying with your phone (支付宝, 扫码), apps (微信, 抖音, 滴滴), phone and internet, trains, hotels and food delivery. Pick it with the 旅 Travel level, or study it inside All. App and brand names carry a small “app” tag. It has its own exam, ladder steps and the Traveller seal.
Topics: The button under the level row (on phones: the study settings line at the top) picks a topic (food, travel, time…). Every study mode then works inside it, and a topic's seal turns red when you know all its words.
What you can read: The progress view counts the example sentences whose HSK words you all know, shows how much of everyday Chinese text your words cover, and suggests the next word to learn. Word frequencies come from wordfreq by Robyn Speer and contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
XP, ranks, combo: Every answer earns XP (10 for a known card, 3 for one you are still learning, more during a combo). XP raises your rank from 新手 Newcomer to 大师 Master. Three or more right answers in a row show a 连 combo counter on the card.
Progress per skill: Reading (Chinese → meaning, 汉字 only, multiple choice), recall (meaning → Chinese) and listening (listening, which tone) each keep their own Known and Learning marks and their own Due list, so a word you can read is not marked as one you can say or hear. Words and sentences also keep their own place in the deck.
Fading pinyin: Settings → Hide pinyin on cards I know well. In Chinese → meaning, a card whose next review is a week or more away shows only its characters until you tap it, so the pinyin fades as you learn. Off by default.
Sentences: The same four styles for the 777 example sentences, in the Sentences tiles of the practice style sheet. Each sentence is a card of its own with its own progress, and its back shows the word it comes from.

Reading the card

Colours show the tone of each syllable: 1st mā, 2nd má, 3rd mǎ, 4th mà, neutral ma. Turn them off in Settings.
The red dashed square around each character is a 米字格 practice grid, the same one used in Chinese exercise books. It helps you see how the character fills its square.

Progress and goals

The pill at the top right shows today’s answers against your daily goal, and your streak 🔥 of days in a row.
The chart button opens your progress: words known per level, the last 14 days, and a map of every word. Tap a square to study that word.
Its Calendar tab shows a month at a time: the days you studied (bright green when you met your goal, blue for a streak freeze) and how many reviews fall due on each coming day, in all skills. Tap a day, or use the arrow keys, to see its numbers, so you can plan a day off.
After every 20 cards you get a short summary.

Sound

Speech uses the Chinese voices on your device. If nothing plays, add a Chinese voice: on iPhone, Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices → Chinese; on Android, the Google text-to-speech settings; on Windows, Settings → Time & language → Speech.
In Settings, Test voices hides the voices that do not work on this device. If the start of a word gets cut off, keep Fix cut-off audio start switched on.

Keyboard

In the mode and level buttons, the arrow keys move the selection instead.

→ I know it ← Still learning Space Skip S Read aloud ↑ ↓ Show or hide 1–4 Choose an answer H Hard E Easy T Type the pinyin Z or Ctrl+Z Undo Esc Close a panel

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