Arch Chinese is an online Chinese character learning tool for Mandarin Chinese language learners. Designed from the start specifically for English speakers who have no or little knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, it offers a rich set of features with a slick and easy-to-use user interface.
The features of the system are distilled from the user feedback and feature requests from the Chinese learning community. We also consult with Chinese teaching professionals, from preschools or universities, to incorporate their suggestions and ideas. Our ultimate goal is to provide a high quality, accessible learning system to help Chinese language learners to study Mandarin Chinese in a practical, effective and enjoyable manner.
Key available features include:
- Animates stroke order for ALL the Chinese characters defined in the national standard character set of mainland China and 7,000 frequently-used characters of the traditional Chinese character set.
- Generates Chinse character worksheets with stroke sequences in PDF format for offline practice. It is also great for Chinese language teachers to create teaching materials. Here is a writing worksheet example
- Searches characters and example sentences in Chinese-English dictionary and sentence repository by Pinyin (the Chinese phonetics), radicals, English word, English phrase, English sentence, English sentence fragments, Chinese characters, Chinese phrases or Chinese sentence fragments
- Displays common example words and sentences using the character and their English translations
- Chinese character flashcards with pre-defined character lists for different levels
- Provides Standard Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Table, the complete listing of all Pinyin syllables used in standard Mandarin, including possible tone variations and their pronunciations
- Converts pinyin with tone number notation to pinyin with tone marks
- Animates a character stroke by stroke, one character at a time or continuously animates all the characters you have imported or studied.
- Runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOS X) and browsers (including Internet Explorer 6.x & 7.0, Firefox 1.5, 2.x & 3.0, Safari 3.x, Google Chrome and Opera 9.x)
- Import your own word list to the flashcard and export characters that need to be studied later
- Customizable and easy-to-use user interface
- Displays radicals, English translations, stroke counts and Pinyin
- Native-speaker pronunciation of each character
- Add your own characters and phrases
- Keeps track of characters you have studied
- and more...
Many Chinese language learners and teaching professionals have found this system to be useful and effective. Read what some of our users and teaching professionals have said about us:
After registering, I was completely blown away with the excitement of how the whole program work. I never imagined anything being so good,its marvelous. This program is so good,it has given me confidence of knowing that I will now definitely be able to master reading and writing Chinese Characters. I would seriously like to see this program promoted more so that others could benefit from it.
I have purchased previously a very expensive program to read and write Chinese Characters, I was extremely disappointed, and the program did not motivate me like Arch Chinese has,This other expensive program has no comparison with Arch Chinese. I will certainly promote this program to all whom I meet, and are interested in studying Chinese Once again thanks for such a wonderful program, I cant wait to use it - John M., Australia
I haven't tested it thoroughly, but I can see this is a very interesting and useful tool... - Professor Tim Xie, California State University Long Beach, USA
Arch Chinese is the best online Chinese writing learning tool I have found. I like the user interface. The stroke order animation is awesome!... - Dan W., USA
...You have been extremely responsive on both problems I have had; you have a great idea; and I wish you and your team the best of luck with your excellent initiative. I have been telling my friends and co-students at Hong Kong University night classes so hopefully you are getting a bit more support... - Ron T., Hong Kong
Hi, I'm a first year university student in Ottawa, Canada taking a mandarin course. This website is the only one of its kind and has helped me TONS with learning Chinese. It literally serves as a 24 hour-a-day tutor and because of it I've surpassed the skills of most of my classmates. You have built an exceptionally large and accurate database and your app is smooth and easy to use. Thank you for doing us such a great service. - Adam Wilkinson, Canada
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