WriteChinese - learn to write
Learn Chinese stroke order
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Watch animations, hear the pronunciation and trace to easily master the correct stroke order of over 20,000 Chinese characters—your writing helper for learning Chinese.
"WriteChinese" is an app for learning the stroke order of Chinese characters, with stroke order lookup, pinyin annotation, voice playback, flashcards and vocabulary review. It works on iPhone, iPad and Apple Pencil.
The app strictly follows the latest standards for Chinese character stroke order and includes tens of thousands of common characters, meeting the lookup needs of teachers, parents and children. Stroke order and radicals are based on the "Elementary School Students' Stroke-Radical-Structure Character-level Stroke Order Dictionary" and the "Modern Chinese Stroke-Radical-Structure Character-level Stroke Order Standard Dictionary."
All of the more than 20,000 Chinese characters supported by "WriteChinese" are annotated with pinyin, and users can tap the play button to hear the pronunciation.
Features:
* Take a photo or choose an image for text recognition to help you input the characters you want to practice.
* Handwriting lookup: find the character you want by writing it by hand, even if you can't type Chinese.
* New flashcards: turn characters into cards for reviewing and memorizing anytime, anywhere.
* New vocabulary book: automatically collect new characters for repeated review.
* New word list quiz: test how well you've mastered a list, with your progress at a glance.
* After text recognition, automatically translate English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese into Chinese for easy comparison while learning Chinese.
* Offline dictionary: look up characters you don't know.
* Automatically save your input or text-recognition history for easy practice later.
* Supports stroke order practice for almost all Chinese characters.
* Play the standard stroke order of characters as an animation.
* Practice writing Chinese characters; if there is a mistake, the app alerts you to the incorrect stroke.
* Show or hide the stroke order to help with dictation and to strengthen memory.
* Automatically annotate pinyin when you input any Chinese characters.
* Voice playback of Chinese characters: if you don't know how to read a character, just tap the voice button to hear it.
* Share your handwritten characters with friends.
* Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English explanations.
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Chinese characters have a history of more than six thousand years; they are the world's longest continuously used writing system, with no break in transmission. They are the only surviving ideographic script created by ancient people and an important part of Chinese culture. We sincerely hope "WriteChinese" can help Chinese learners around the world and help billions of Chinese users learn how to write Chinese characters.
Unlimited Access Membership Subscription
- Use all in-app features without restrictions through this subscription.
- Subscriptions are charged weekly, monthly or yearly, depending on the selected plan.
- Payment is charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of purchase.
- You can turn off auto-renewal 24 hours before the current period ends, or it will renew automatically.
- Renewal is charged to your account within 24 hours before the current period ends, depending on your plan.
- Users can manage subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal in account settings after purchase.
- Any unused free subscription time is forfeited after purchasing a subscription.
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Ratings & Reviews
What's New:
• New flashcards
• New vocabulary book
• New handwriting lookup
• New word list quiz
The developer, Shanghai Dazhuo Information Technology Co., Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Shanghai Dazhuo Information Technology Co., Ltd.
- Size
- 373.5 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 12 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Weekly Subscription $1.99
- Annual Subscription $19.99
- Monthly Subscription $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 dazhuogroup Inc