Printable writing sheets

One row per character: the model, four fading copies to trace, and five empty boxes. Each box is a 田字格, the dashed guide every Chinese child learns to write inside, because it shows where each part of a character belongs.

Or practise on screen

No email address, no download, no account. Press print and choose Save as PDF if you want to keep them. Set your printer to A4 or Letter portrait and leave scaling at 100 percent, so the boxes stay square.

一yī one1 stroke

二èr two2 strokes

人rén person2 strokes

十shí ten2 strokes

大dà big3 strokes

口kǒu mouth3 strokes

女nǚ woman3 strokes

三sān three3 strokes

山shān mountain3 strokes

上shàng up, on3 strokes

下xià down, below3 strokes

小xiǎo small3 strokes

子zǐ child3 strokes

不bù not4 strokes

火huǒ fire4 strokes

木mù tree, wood4 strokes

日rì sun, day4 strokes

少shǎo few, little4 strokes

水shuǐ water4 strokes

天tiān sky, day4 strokes

月yuè moon, month4 strokes

中zhōng middle4 strokes

们men plural for people5 strokes

去qù to go5 strokes

生shēng life, to be born5 strokes

他tā he5 strokes

吃chī to eat6 strokes

多duō many, much6 strokes

好hǎo good6 strokes

会huì can, will6 strokes

那nà that6 strokes

年nián year6 strokes

休xiū rest6 strokes

有yǒu to have6 strokes

在zài at, to be somewhere6 strokes

来lái to come7 strokes

你nǐ you7 strokes

时shí time7 strokes

我wǒ I, me7 strokes

这zhè this7 strokes

国guó country8 strokes

林lín woods8 strokes

明míng bright8 strokes

朋péng friend8 strokes

学xué to study8 strokes

茶chá tea9 strokes

很hěn very9 strokes

看kàn to look, to watch9 strokes

是shì to be9 strokes

说shuō to speak9 strokes

要yào to want9 strokes

家jiā home, family10 strokes

能néng to be able10 strokes

钱qián money10 strokes

请qǐng please, to invite10 strokes

喝hē to drink12 strokes

谢xiè to thank12 strokes

想xiǎng to think, to want13 strokes

Stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi via Hanzi Writer, Arphic Public License.

Free to print and photocopy for classroom and personal use, on one condition: this line stays on the page. From learnchineseonlinehub.com.

How to use them

Trace, then copy

Follow the fading models first. By the fifth box the guide is nearly gone, which is the point where you find out whether you know it.

Say it as you write

Say the pinyin with its tone on every repetition. It ties the shape to the sound instead of leaving them as two separate memories.

Five is plenty

Ten repetitions in one sitting is worse than five today and five on Thursday. The gap is what does the work.