Arch Chinese is driven by the Chinese learning commmunity. We add new features and improve the existing functionalities constantly to meet the needs of the Chinese language learners.
Mar 24, 2012
MP3 recordings for individual characters become downloadable. As requested, on the Stroke Order Animation and Dictionary page, added a Download MP3 Recording button, which is below the animated Chinese character. Click the button to save the mp3 recording of the character to your computer.
Added stroke name recordings for all the Chinese characters. On the Stroke Order Animation and Dictionary page, Single click the animated Chinese character to hear the stroke names.
Created another batch of example sentences and MP3 recordings.
Feb 18, 2012
Now the system pronounces the stroke names during the stroke order animations. On the Chinese Stroke Animation and Dictionary page, click the animated Chinese character or the Next Stroke button below the animated Chinese character to hear the native-speaker pronunciation of the strokes.
Added Add My Vocabs button onto the Edit Vocab List screen. After grabbing words and characters from the Chinese-English dictionary and saving them to My Vocab List, now you can add the words in the My Vocab List to any saved vocab lists.(Thanks to Kevin Bogle!)
Per the requests from our users, we have added back the Quick Lookup feature. Quick Lookup is very useful to find the corresponding Chinese character or word for an English word. You can listen to the pronuncation of the word and add the word to your vocab list to further study or generate worksheets.
Added See Also links to the left side of the animated character to quickly look up characters with the same radical or component.
Jan 08, 2012
Thanks to Kevin Bogle, now it is much easier to edit, create, copy or delete a vocab list.
My Vocab List is now synchronized to our cloud servers automatically.
Now you can optionally provide a short description for a vocab list for searching and sharing vocab lists with other members.
Added more example sentences
Reviewed and corrected the stroke orders of all the simplified Chinese characters.
Dec 20, 2011
Now you can download native-speaker audio recordings of the example sentences.
Merged My Characters and My Words to the newly-created My Vocab List, which support both single and compound Chinese words.
Now you can search by traditional Chinese characters or words on the unified system, for examples, 幾乎, 個 and 聽說
November 18, 2011
Reviewed and corrected Pinyin and English definitions for all the traditional Chinese characters.
Added traditional style for each example word.
Added traditional style for each example sentence. The user can optionally hide the traditional character sentences.
Now the character animations for the traditional characters are performed on the simplified system. Our goal is to merge the two separate systems into a single, unified system.
Upgraded audio recordings for individual Chinese characters and compound words.
Created and published additional 3,000 quality example sentences.
Added previous and next buttons at the bottom of the each list of example sentences and compound words.
October 18, 2011
As shown in My family members in Chinese, fixed Chinese character worksheet generation when, in the worksheet setting section, the user has selected "Show English definitions in separate grids" and unchecked "Show stroke sequences in one box to save space". (Thanks to May Ditan!)
Now you can quickly create Bingo cards with Chinese characters or compound words grabbed from the Chinese-English dictionary by clicking the Bingo link on the My Characters or My Words boxes.
Added Study button to the Chinese Character Worksheet Maker page to allow the users to conveniently study the Chinese characters online and then print out the worksheets for offline practice.
To provide the best performance for the users who would like to generate worksheets for a large number of Chinese characters at a time, we have re-designed the Chinese Character Worksheet Generation process to be
a fast, easy-to-use two-click process. Once the worksheet PDF file is ready, you can elect to save the PDF file to your local machine and then view it with your favorite PDF viewer, or directly view the PDF file in a separate browser pop-up window. The former is much faster while the latter is more convenient.
In Chinese Word Worksheet Maker, English definitions and Pinyin are now optional. If you
want to print a general-purpose, blank Chinese word sheet, simply click the Print Worksheets button. Note that, this Chinese Word Worksheet Maker support
both traditional and simplified Chinese. Currently, auto Pinyin is supported for simplified Chinese only. Auto Pinyin for traditional Chinese will be supported soon.
September 25, 2011
Released the fourth batch of example sentence audio recordings.
Added additional example sentences, mostly for new HSK level 5 and 6 words and characters.
Now you can expand and collapse the example sentence details by clicking the little magnifying glass icon.
With the sample sentences, now you are able to quickly toggle on and off the English, Pinyin and Chinese characters to help testing.
When looking up characters or words with fuzzy Pinyin (Pinyin without tones), in addition to example words, now related example sentences will be shown as well.
In Chinese-English dictionary, query character or word is now highlighted in the example words and sentences.
Further improved overall system performance.
August 28, 2011
Released third batch example sentence audio recordings.
Added a few thousand additional example sentences that cover most commonly used Chinese words and sentence patterns.
Added Study link to My Characters. In addition to generating worksheets for the selected Chinese characters,with one click, you can load the characters to the
Chinese Flashcard Program to study them.
Many Chinese learners are learning traditional Chinese characters and using Bopomofo phonetic system. As shown on the Chinese character display setting screenshot, now you can choose Pinyin or Bopomofo as the phonetic system. Note this phonetic system setting applies to Chinese character details, example words and sentences.
Released second batch example sentence audio recordings.
Added 3000 additional example sentences for words and characters in HSK 5 and 6.
On the Chinese Character Worksheets page, now you can save the characters and their customized definitions to Arch Chinese server. That way, you can generate worksheets for those characters in the future or from a different machine.
On the Chinese Character Worksheets page, added "Show repetitive characters on the worksheet" option to allow duplicate characters on the worksheets. (Thanks to Cindy Franklin!)
July 16, 2011
Started creating studio quality, native-speaker audio recordings for all the example sentences. We just published the first batch. More are in the making. Our goal is to create 20,000 plus example sentences that cover the majority, if not all, of the common characters, compound words and sentence structures. Each sentence will have a real person, native speaker audio.
Added quality example sentences for characters and compound words defined in HSK level 4. Example sentences for HSK level 5 and 6 will be added soon.
June 28, 2011
Chinese learners now can learn Chinese characters and words by playing Bingo games! With the flexible and powerful Bingo Card Generator, you can generate custom Bingo cards and randomized call sheets with your own Chinese characters and words.
This bingo card maker is not just for learning Chinese, you can use this tool to generate traditional 5x5 number bingo cards or other educational bingo cards to support and reinforce lessons in mathematics, language arts, science, social studies, and just about any area of the curriculum!
May 26, 2011
Created high quality example sentences for each character and word defined in the new HSK level 1 to 3. All the sentences were reviewed by native Chinese speakers to ensure accuracy. Example sentences for new HSK level 4-6 are in the making.
April 30, 2011
Added Chinese character formation and etymology information for additional 2,000 plus less-commonly-used characters.
To ensure correctness and completeness, reviewed the definitions for all the simplified Chinese characters in the system.
Fine tuned the search capabilities, especially search-by-english, of our free online Chinese English dicationary. Now it is faster and the search results are more accurate!
Added flashcard deck batch editing capability. Before you export, or print worksheets or flashcards, you can change the definitions and Pinyin of the flashcards on the deck.
Added a feature to allow users to edit and then save the flashcards to the server for future study or printing. The saved flashcard lists are shown on the My Flashcards box.
The system can read the word or character automatically when you are studying the word or character on the flashcard program.
Revamped the Worksheets page to allow the users to customize definitons in a batch.
Now you can grab common words and phrases from the Chinese English dictionary to build a flashcard set to study online and then generate word worksheets or nicely formatted paper flashcards for offline study.
Added import flashcards capability to the Chinese vocabulary flashcard learning system. You can import the flashcards you made or exported from other sources to the flashcard program.
Added export flashcards capability to the Chinese vocabulary flashcard learning system. With this feature, you can export the flashcards to share with others or make a backup copy of it.
Added faster and powerful "fuzzy Pinyin" search for characters. Tone marks are no longer needed. If the Pinyin syllable is also a valid English word, such as sun, can, long,die,pan and man, the system will return all the characters with the same syllable or meaning.
Without tone marks, many matched characters may be found. The system now provides Chinese character details view to allow you to sort the search results by stroke count, Pinyin or usage frequency.
Revamped Chinese Radical Table. Now the radical table lists all the Kangxi radicals and, with one mouse click, you can find the characters with a particular radical. To help you locate a radical, we provide English definitions, Pinyin, Kangxi radical numbers and stroke counts. Like Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Chart and Chinese English Dictionary, you can order radicals by stroke count, Kangxi radical number, Pinyin and even English.
Removed the search box on the toolbar of the character animator. It is redundant.
Per a teacher's request, added Sign In links on the top level web pages.
Further improved usability and added Arch Chinese logo!
To support IPhone and IPad users, Flash will be gradually phased out from this site.
January 16, 2011
Added on-the-fly breakdown of example sentences. This feature is very helpful for understanding the meaning behind the sentence. Click the magnifying glass on the right end of the example sentence to view its word and character components.
On the word details page, besides character radical links, added character component links to allow a user to look up characters with the same component as the character in a word.
January 10, 2011
Created Chinese Word Details page to allow users to view the detailed information of a commonly-used Chinese word. Click the magnifying glass on the right hand side of the word to view its details. Besides the example sentences of the word, the page contains some innovative features: similar pronunciation words, same pronunciation words (if any), words with the same head character and words with the same tail character. The similar pronunciation words include the words with same syllables but different tones, such as xiao3 xue2(小学, elementary school), xiao3 xue3(小雪, light snow). Further, depending on how many similar pronunciation words available, the system will display words to help users to differentiate confusing pronuncations (such as zh- vs. z-, ch- vs. c-, sh- vs. s-, -ong vs. -on, -eng vs. en and -ing vs. in). The last is the unique Words of Interest, which lists similiar meaning or related words.
Improved Chinese character and phrase worksheet makers. The generated worksheets are viewable for Adobe Reader 4.5 and above. No more "illegal operation on an inside path" issue for the users who use an ancient PDF viewer.
Added English translations for all the example sentences.
December 12, 2010
Released long-awaited and one of the most-requested Chinese Sentence Writing Sheet Maker. With a few clicks, you can create nice-formatted Chinese phrase/sentence writing sheets for Chinese learners to practice writing. Comparing to the original handout generator, this newly-designed system is much easy-to-use and faster. In addition, the system can automatically populate Pinyin for the sentences. As requested, we added additional font style support. Now a user can use Kaiti, LiSu, Xingkai, YouYuan, Hupo, Caiyun or Songti on the worksheets.
Reviewed and added 25,000 additional commonly-used words and Chinese idioms to the Arch Chinese word and phrase repository. All the Chinese words and phrases have been reviewed by our bilingual Chinese language teachers. Our phrase repository may not be biggest one on the Internet, but it is one of the most accurate and tailored for Chinese langauge learners at all levels!
Added a Reset button on the Chinese flashcard program toolbar to allow the user to remove all the card schedule informaton and start it over.
Fixed a bug on Pinyin Tone Drill program (Thanks to Regis Cheval). You can use the Pinyin Tone Drill program to test and practice your knowledge of Mandarin Pinyin and tones.
Added flashcard printing feature on the Chinese Flashcards page. With one click, you can create professional-looking paper flashcards. The new Print button is added to the toolbar. You can print flashcards from the pre-made decks. Of course, you can customize the card definitions before you print them. Also, you can create you own decks and then print them on perforated business card paper. It is great for teachers and parents to create learning materials for young Chinese language learners.
Added Printable Chinese Flashcard options on the Worksheets page. On the Flashcard option tab, you can specify flashcard paper size (letter or A4), flashcard card(US business card size or European business card size), whether or not print cut lines (disable cut lines when printing on perforated business card paper, but enable it if you cut the flashcards manually using paper cutter or a pair of scissors), whether or not print flashcard border. At last, you can skip printing the Chinese characters on the back of the flashcard to recall the characters on the front of the card.
Note those setttings also apply to the Printable Chinese flashcards generated from Chinese Flashcards page.
Now a user can add a title to a worksheet. The title can be specified on the Worksheet Grids, Colors and Title tab of the Settings pop-up. To update or create a new title, simply enter the title to the box and press the Save button. Blank out the title box to remove worksheet titles.
Cleaned up example words to remove phrases and proper nouns that are not commonly used.
October 10, 2010
Added Chinese character flashcard maker button to the Worksheet page. Now you can customize the definitions for each character and then print hardcopy Chinese character flashcards for offline study. Currently, Letter (or US Letter) is the default paper size. You can use perforated business card paper or regular paper.It is easy and fast! You may need to adjust your printer settings to use thicker paper. To make sure the flashcard borders match the perforations of the perforated business card paper, disable scaling and/or fit-to-page options.
September 26, 2010
Added a new worksheet style to allow the users to use long and complete English definitions on the worksheets. Intead of showing them in the head character, the English definitions are listed on a separate grid on top of the stroke sequence diagram. To use this style, select Show English definitions in a separate grid on the Worksheet settings. It is also very useful for the users who use non-English definitions such as German.
Added a Use Default button on character definition customization editing screen to allow the users to remove the customizations for the character. That is, the worksheets use the definitions provided by Arch Chinese.
To match the simplified system, in addition to using the serial key, now traditional system users can sign in with their emails and passwords
September 19, 2010
Revamped traditional Chinese system worksheet generation to match the features available in the simplified system. Now you can generate highly customizable Chinese character worksheets with traditional Chinese characters.
Added Add the current character to the worksheet character input box button on the up-right corner of the animated character. It is handy for the users to find and pick Chinese characters to generate handwriting worksheets
Added a Copy the studied characters to the worksheet character input box button on the Studied History pop-up. Once the studied characters are copied to the worksheet character box, you can edit and customize the definitions before you hit the Generate Worksheets.
Added a few options for generating embeddable Chinese character animations. Instead of using random colors, now the user is able to specify
character, radical and grid colors. If a character has more than one pronunciation, the pronunciation button plays all the pronunciation. Besides, the pronunciation button is optional now. These changes will make it easier for you to integrate the animations into
the existing look and feel of your web pages.
Now Study History remains after the customization of English definitions and Pinyin for the Chinese characters on the worksheets
September 13, 2010
Added two new worksheet options for the users who like one worksheet page per character. Now you can select how many
traceable characters you want on each line and also whether or not you want them at the beginning or randomly throughout.
Like the simplified sub-system, now the traditional sub-system also allows the users to provide their own definitions and Pinyin on the Chinese character writing worksheets.
Improved the traditional sub-system. Now Pinyin tone marks show correctly on the generated Chinese character worksheets.
Added Embeddable Character Animation Generator to traditional sub-system. You are welcome to
integrated the animated Chinese characters into your school or personal web pages.
No more Javascript message pop-ups. Status and warning messages now show right below the page header. The messsage disappears automatically in 30 seconds. You can also click the "X" sign on the lower-right corner of the message to remove it.
Added a new Worksheets generation option: Create a worksheet page per character. The worksheet option page on the Settings pop-up has been re-organized. Now the worksheet foreground color settings is on the new Worksheet Color tab.
Added flashcards and CD quality pronunciation for the New HSK test level 1 vocabulary list.
Now all the flashcards, including HSK and new HSK, can be exported as UTF-8 encoded CSV files.
August 28, 2010
Added high quality recordings for all the initials (consonants) and finals(vowels) on the Chinese Pinyin Chart.
Added pronunciation tips and comments for initials and finals on the Chinese Pinyin Chart. Click a Pinyin syllable on the Chinese Pinyin Chart to show the tips.
Added My Account page to allow the registered members to view and maintain account information. The My Account page is available after you sign in. Instead of using the long, automatically generated member serial key, a member can create customized, easy-to-remember sign-in credentials.
Fixed quite a few minor typos and English definitions for example phrases
Reviewed characters with multiple pronunciations to make sure most frequently used pronunciation is listed first
Further improved the performance of worksheet and handout generation. Now a regular user can generate worksheets for 50 characters with one mouse click.
Added another batch of Chinese character etymologies for simplified Chinese characters.
Now Chinese worksheets can be generated even www.stlplace.com is down.
February 3, 2010
Per a Chinese teacher's request, added a new Worksheet option: Show its radical along with the character. Chinese Teachers can turn it off if the students are confused by the radicals
January 22, 2010
Released the first batch of Chinese character etymologies for simplified Chinese characters. The etymology information is located right above the character decomposition explorer. e.g 中
Now, with a single click, the system can generate worksheets for more than 100 characters at a time. This feature is handy for Chinese language teachers and Chinese learners who are preparing HSK tests
Added a new Loadn'Go flow on Worksheets page to load a Chinese text file and immediately generate worksheets for the Chinese characters in the file
December 28, 2009
Added Mandarin Tone Drill to test and practice your knowledge of Mandarin Pinyin and tones.
Added the long-waited English meaning and Pinyin customization for individual characters on the Chinese character worksheets. The customizations apply to the character animations as well. Check it out by clicking the Customizing button on the up-right corner of the animated character.
As requested, the Chinese Phrase Handout Generator now allows the user to import and export the handouts. Since the handouts are stored on your local machine, this feature is useful for users who want to share or print handouts on mulitple computers.
Fixed a worksheet/handout generation bug in Linux environment.
Added the simplifed character on the left side of the animated character. It is handy to copy the character to the worksheet box
October 24, 2009
Chinese phrase handout generator now is a hybrid of Chinese character worksheet generator and Chinese phrase worksheet generator. You
can generate a worksheet where you can start tracing the characters and write the phrases made of the characters you trace.
On the Chinese character worksheets, if Create Pinyin practice grid for each character is enabled, Pinyin will be shown on top of the first tracing character.
September 16, 2009
Instead of using tone numbers, now the Pinyin on the generated Chinese worksheets and handouts use tone marks. When you create a Chinese phrase handout, for your convenience, you enter Pinyin with tone numbers, but the system will automatically convert them to tone marks when you print them.
September 13, 2009
Instead of using the long serial key to log in, for registered members, now you can create an
alternative, easy-to-remember member id via the System and Security tab of the Settings pop-up.
Once it is created, you can later log in on that machine using the simple member id. This member id is only for your convenience and it does not replace the assigned member serial key. PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE ON PUBLIC COMPUTERS,
YOU MAY UNCONSCIOUSLY SHARE YOUR MEMBER ID WITH OTHERS, WHICH IS PROHIBITED BY TERMS OF USE OF THIS SERVICE.
Added a new option, Show character stroke sequences in one box to save space, to the character worksheet generation. By default, this option is disable for the existing users, but is enabled for new users. Here are two sample worksheets, one with Pinyin grids and one without Pinyin grids.
Added a Show Worksheet Settings link on Worksheets page. Now the users can view and change the worksheet generation options easily before generating the worksheets.
On the Worksheet settings page, changed the max blank practice boxes to 15 so that up to 2 lines of blank practice boxes can be generated for each character.
August 8, 2009
Improved Chinese character worksheet generation and removed the horizontal spaces between the character writing boxes.
A new Worksheet generation option, Create Pinyin spelling practice grid for each character, has been added to the Settings pop-up. This option allows the users to generate Pinyin writing grids on top of the character writing boxes. (Thanks to Christine Tsai).
Users now can use the Delete button on the Imported Character pop-up to clean up imported characters. (Thanks to Christina of MMI Preparatory School).
July 8, 2009
Added "Show me how to write the word" buttons to the example words/phrases of Chinese characters.
Added a "Generate Chinese Character Worksheet" button to each example word/phrase.
July 2, 2009
Improved Search by English feature. In addition to the matched characters, the system lists the words and sentences that contain the English word or sentence.
Compiled similar-looking Chinese characters that are confusing, undistinguishable to beginners. such as 拨 and 拔, Deployed a few hundreds to the system. More will be deployed once they are reviewed.
May 7, 2009
Now the system highlights the character being read when you listen to the pronunciations of the example words. Try it out by clicking the little speakers at the right end of the example words.
Chinese handwriting worksheets are getting even better! We added a new option, worksheet grid color, to allow you to further fine tune the worksheets. In addition, we changed the writing box borders from dashed to solid lines.
Added a new grid size option, Tiny, for users who like really small writing boxes. (Thanks to Chris King)
May 1, 2009
Added a "Paste and Print" feature on the Worksheets page to allow Chinese language teachers to generate offline practice worksheets quickly without going through the character animations.
Added a few options to the Options page of ArchMemo
April 18, 2009
ReleasedArchMemo (Alpha), an innovative Spaced Repetition System (SRS) to help you learn Chinese efficiently and effectively.
April 12, 2009
Added additional options for writing worksheet generation. In addition to the writing grid styles and sizes, now the user has fine-grained control over number of tracing characters, number of blank writing boxes, tracing character color, new stroke color and written stroke color
Fixed a PayPal integration bug. Now, after signing up, the user will receive the member serial key instantly.
Added an option to allow the users to print handwriting practice worksheets without character stroke sequences
March 5, 2009
System now remembers configuration settings across sessions. Also, a Reset to Configuration Defaults button is added on the System and Security tab of Settings pop-up.
Fixed a bug in animating a set of characters continuously
March 1, 2009
Added look-up Chinese characters with a given component. On the left side of the animated character, the Component label, along with Radical label and the pronunced text, are hyperlinks. Click them to find charaters that have the same component, radical or pronunciation, respectively.
February 23, 2009
Replaced the look-up by radicals with Chinese Radical Table to help users to locate a character easily and quickly. Pinyin and English meanings are shown as tooltips for the radicals and characters. It also features two-level sorting by stroke count, usage frequency or Pinyin (alphabetically).
Added Software and Security configuration tab to the Options pop-up. Now the user can specify how long the system should remember you after you log in. Also,if you want your name to be printed on the footer of the generated character handwriting PDF worksheet, you can tell the system to do so. Based on the user preference, the system now is able to automatically optimize the user interface for best performance or best usability.
February 18, 2009
Integrated stroke order animation with flashcard. Now the user can learn the stroke order/writing as well.
Improved the search capability. Now the user can use Chinese characters/phrases, English and Pinyin in one query to search characters, phrases or sentences, For an example, you can search medical universities in Shanghai using query "大学, medical, shang4 hai3"
Per a user's request, now the system can remember you for one day after you sign in. So you do not have to sign in again after you leave the Stroke Order Animation or Worksheets pages
On the Mandarin Pinyin Table, the users now can view the Chinese characters for each variation of a syllable. The Chinese characters, with English definitons as their tooltips, are ordred by the frequency of usage.
February 13, 2009
Added Chinese character structure information for simplified Chinese characters. The structure information is based on the
the 12 Ideographic Description Characters (IDCs) introduced in ISO 10646.
February 8, 2009
Added additional character order animations. Now the system covers ALL the characters defined in the national standard character set of mainland China.
Reviewed and corrected all the simplified character stroke order to ensure it conforms to the 《现代汉语通用字笔顺规范》 (Modern Chinese Commonly Used Character Stroke Order Standard) published by 国家语委和中华人民共和国新闻出版署(China National Language And Character Working Committee and General Administration of Press and Publication of the Peoples' Republic of China) in 1997
Added additional character order animations for traditional characters and checked the order info to ensure they conform to the standard issued by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.
Added a configuration to allow the user to select either empty boxes for writing or shaded characters for tracing on the lines when the decomposition of strokes are finished.
January 10, 2009
Added character decomposition information (radicals and components), usage frequency and the corresponding traditional character(s) for every simplified character in the system
Checked the latest version of Xinhua Zhidian(Chinese Character Dictionary) for every character in the system to make sure the correctness and completeness of the Mandarin pronunciation
Added Open File buton on the Imported Characters pop-up to allow users to load characters directly from a text file.
Worksheet generation for large number of characters is much faster. The system will prompt a Save As dialog to save the generated PDF file.
Character look-up results are now ordered by usage frequency
December 30, 2008
The system now remembers the imported and studied characters, even after you exit your broswer or shut down your operating system.
Added Import button to the Imported Characters pop-up to allow the users to import, instead of searching the Chinese<->English dictionary, Chinese characters from files and other sources to the character animator.
Added Save As button to the Studied Characters pop-up to export the studied characters to a file.
Added Save As button to the Imported Characters pop-up to export the imported characters to a file.
Improved Search By English capability. Now searching common, short English words, such as "also", "if", "I", etc, returns correct results.
Dropped built-in Chinese font in Arch Chinese (Simplified) to further speed up page loading and added additional character animations. Now the system covers over 12,000 Chinese characters in total.
December 15, 2008
Added Arch Chinese (Traditional), a separate learning system targeted for traditional Chinese character learners.
December 8, 2008
Per a registered member's request, added an additional writing box size option for writing sheet generation. Now the user can select Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large character size during worksheet generation. The default size is Medium.
November 19, 2008
Added Slideshow feature for the studied characters. Now you can watch the animations, along with pronunciation, English definition, stroke number, example phrases and example sentence, for all the studied characters by clicking the Slideshow button on the toolbar. Alternatively, you can click the Slideshow button on the Studied Characters pop-up.
November 16, 2008
Added Pinyin display for the example sentences; added more simple sentences and dropped thousands of complicated ones
Improved character writing worksheet generation. Now the system allows the users to select different writing box sizes, writing grid styles and stroke printing colors.
November 06, 2008
Added searching characters/phrases/example sentences by English phrases, English sentence fragments (e.g. prefer to, might as well, my Chinese teacher, am going to), Chinese phrase, Chinese sentence patterns or fragments (such as 与其...不如)
Added character look-up by radicals. Also, the example sentences of each character have been reorganized. Now easy ones display first.
October 13, 2008
Added example sentences. As in example phrases, you can click any characters in the sentences to look up the meanings and usage of the clicked character.
