Free tools

Things you can use right now

No account, nothing stored, nothing to install. Built for the questions students actually arrive with — and kept honest, because a tool that quietly gets Chinese wrong is worse than no tool.

Chinese name generator

Your name turned into Chinese the way a teacher would do it — the family name's sound for the 姓, your own name for the 名, and the meaning of every character explained.

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Tone Judge

Say a word and watch your own pitch drawn against the shape the tone should make. The judging runs on your device; the recording never leaves it.

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Hanzi to pinyin

Paste Chinese, get pinyin — with 一 and 不 tone changes, polyphones, neutral syllables and 儿化 handled, and every adjusted reading listed so you can check it.

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The tools are the easy half

They will tell you what is wrong. What to do about it is a conversation — and usually a shorter one than you expect.

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