Hanly: Chinese Decoded

Hanly App

About this app

Chinese characters are not random shapes - learn 1000 characters in months by understanding their structure and origin! Through visual breakdowns and engaging stories, Hanly helps you develop an intuitive grasp of Chinese characters and to efficiently remember them. Hanly starts with simple components and quickly builds up to complex characters, while focusing on the most frequently used vocabulary.

CARDS THAT MAKE CHARACTERS COME ALIVE
Etymology, memorable illustrations, mnemonics: we will provide the most helpful information to get a character to come alive in your imagination and stick in your memory for good.

INTUITIVE INTERACTIVE UI
Play with characters like they’re Lego blocks! Explore radicals, components, compound words, and character relationships - all just one click away!

CAREFULLY OPTIMIZED LEARNING PROGRESSION
Start with simple building blocks and naturally progress to complex characters. Our carefully designed levels introduce the most frequent characters early while maintaining coherent, meaningful themes.

EXTENSIVE CHARACTER DICTIONARY & SEARCH
Search by character, pinyin or meaning to find:
- Character meanings and pronunciations
- Usage in compound words and characters
- Frequency and HSK level
- Radical forms
- Stroke order animations
- Character evolution history

SPACED REPETITION ENGINE INTEGRATED WITH THE UI
Built-in spaced repetition helps you review characters at the perfect time, with review schedule optimized for how well you know a given character. Character progress is deeply integrated with the UI, so that you can spot the characters you are learning on any page.

AND MANY MORE FEATURES!
- Detailed learning statistics
- Character etymology stories & fun facts
- Explore characters & radicals sorted by their frequency
- Personal note-taking system
- Easily mark characters you already know

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Ratings and reviews

Amazing app highly recommended for anyone who is trying to recall characters. I can't tell you how much I love this app looking forward to how much more it can develop. I can look up new words I come across in my immersion by components, I love that it tells me related characters, breakdown of character into components, words that has the character in it and example sentences. I can follow their order of learning or do my own. I can mark words known just brilliant. 也 writing practice. - Funmi

With other flashcard apps I have felt like I was just banging my head against a wall, forcing myself to memorize characters that just wouldn't stick in my brain. The combination of learning radicals, along with mnemonics/stories for each character has finally made certain characters click in my brain. I don't love the use of AI generated images. I understand they are helpful, and while I would prefer human made images, for a free app with a small dev team I understand why they are used.

As someone who has been learning Chinese for a few years, I will say this app is amazing at describing characters and helping you to really remember them. I'm above 1000 characters, but even using it to fully understand characters I know a bit of has been a major help, and I'm really looking forward to seeing them add more characters in the future! Best chinese learning app by far in my opinion.