Hanly: Chinese Decoded

Hanly App

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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 resource to learn characters with pictures, mnemonics. word origins , an area to practice writing including version with stroke order and one free form, and a very systematic way to teach on top of a learned foundation that is excellent. wow! never thought there could be an app so perfect for hanzi! also I appreciate the AI art to help with memorizing. but this is a perfect use of AI, being able to make hundreds of pictures quickly to support the mnemonic quickly. needed for a free app

Amazing. I tried a dozen different apps for learning Hanzi. Not only was this one the best for me, it's also free! It may take more time than some of the other systems but it leaves you actually understanding the fundamental pieces of each character. For me this made each character more memorable than other systems I tried.

Giving this 5 stars because it's truly great at making learning characters intuitive and fun. If I could deduct points, it would be for the sometimes really bad AI art used in the background art for cards. It's usually not noticeable, but when it is, it's distracting. I hope they will eventually be replaced with real art.