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 in Chinese, chosen the way a teacher would — with the meaning of every character.

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Tone Judge

Say a word and see your pitch drawn against the tone's shape. The recording never leaves your device.

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Hanzi to pinyin

Paste Chinese, get pinyin — tone changes, polyphones and neutral tones handled, every change marked.

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Reading Prep

Paste an article: pinyin over every character, the new words picked out, laid out to teach from.

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Chat Dice

Pick a level, roll, get a speaking question and three hints. Save it as MP3 or Word.

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Hangman

Guess the word from a picture, one letter at a time — miss, and into the hotpot. Two teams for class.

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Character Mahjong

Mahjong with Chinese characters: one character and three words to win. Play a friend or the computer.

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Synonym cardsPartly free

Search every set; about half show the one-line difference. Opened: examples, exercises, mistakes, PPT.

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Level test

Five minutes to your HSK level — and what people at that level talk about.

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A Day in Chengdu

Pandas at dawn, hotpot and face-changing at night: one day in Chengdu, a word each hour, nine seals.

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Scene lessons

Listen, drag things to the right place, then say it. Great on a classroom screen. Free, no sign-in.

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Microphone check

Thirty seconds before class: can the browser hear you and understand your Chinese?

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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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