HanziHunter

Read 99% of everyday Chinese.

Learn the 3,000 characters that matter, in the order they actually appear in real text — so the first hundred you learn are already 43% of everything you'll read. A few minutes a day. Free to start.

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A short passage written only with characters at your level
Read at your level. Passages built only from characters you know.
A study session card
Review, not cram. Spaced repetition shows each card right before you'd forget it.
A character page with pinyin, meaning and the words it appears in
Every character, whole. Pinyin, meaning, words, etymology, how it's built.
The Discover feed
Swipe through 3,000. Frequency order, one card at a time.
An idiom card with its literal meaning
Idioms, ranked. The 161 chengyu worth knowing, most common first.
The lock-screen widget
On your lock screen. A character a day without opening the app.

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The right order

Textbooks teach by topic. Real Chinese is skewed: 100 characters cover 43% of text, 500 cover 78%, 1,000 cover 90%. HanziHunter teaches in that order, so reading starts early.

忘 wàng · forget

Reviews that land on time

The same spaced-repetition scheduler as Anki. Each character comes back just before you'd forget it, so you spend minutes, not hours.

读 dú · read

Reading from day one

Short passages written only with the characters you've learned. Tap any character to open it. Pinyin and English stay hidden until you ask.

Three thousand characters, one at a time,
in the order that pays off soonest.

Download on the App Store Free to start. Premium unlocks the full deck, writing practice and games.