- Chinese Character Worksheets

我每天练习写汉字

One of the most fascinating aspects of the Chinese language is its special writing system. Correct stroke order and proper proportion are vital to produce visually appealing characters. Using pen and paper to practice writing is the proven, most effective approach to learn and memorize Chinese characters. It is important to write Chinese characters properly from the beginning. Once you get bad habits, it is very hard to correct them later. Arch Chinese offers unique, innovative character worksheets to help you learn how to write them correctly and beautifully.

You can generate handwriting worksheets quickly by entering (or copy & paste) Chinese characters to the above box and press the Generate Worksheet button. This feature is designed for Chinese language teachers and parents to create worksheets for students without viewing the character animations. You may view and change the worksheet settings before you generate them. Try it out using the demo sentence 我每天练习写汉字 (I practice writing Chinese characters everyday). You need to sign in to print worksheets for other Chinese characters. The system can generate worksheets for all the characters defined in the national standard character set of China. For performance reasons, it is limited to 50 characters at a time.

If you want to generate more characters at a time, you can sign up as a premium member. Premium members can generate worksheets for more than 100 characters at a time. In addition to that, premium members can use Load'n Go approach to load a Chinese text file and generate worksheets instantly for all the Chinese characters in the file. As an example, you can export a flashcard set from Flashcard page to a file, load that file and generate worksheets.

For traditional Chinese characters, please use Arch Chinese traditional version.

If you want to provide your own English definitions and Pinyin for a character, you can click the Customize button on the up-right corner of the animated character. The customized definitions apply for both worksheet generation and character animations. Care must be taken to avoid long definitions because the worksheet character boxes are small. The worksheet generator will ignore the English definition if it is too long. If you have to use long definitions, you can use the Chinese phrase handout generator, which is designed to create and print handouts for Chinese phrases and sentences,. In this case, instead of entering phrase, Pinyin and English, you enter a character, the Pinyin for the character and your definition. The Chinese phrase handout generator allows you to generate a worksheet where you can start tracing the characters and write the phrases that use the characters.

Alternatively, you can generate worksheets for the characters you have studied by clicking the Print button on the toolbar. You can also export the studied characters and then paste them into the above box to print selectively.

If you want to incorporate the character stroke sequences into your Chinese teaching materials, you can click the Export button to export the stroke sequences as a JPEG image. Like worksheets, you can adjust grid styles and character colors, etc.

Arch Chinese offers 3 types of Chinese character writing worksheets, along with 4 writing box styles (blank, diagonal, cross and square) and various writing box sizes:

1. Character writing worksheets with stroke sequences (sample 1, sample 2, sample 3) - It is perfect for offline practice. After you sign in, simply click the Print button on the tool bar to generate worksheets for the characters you have studied online. Alternatively, you can view the characters on the Studied Characters pop-up and then print them.

2. Character writing worksheets for tracing without stroke sequences (sample 1, sample 2) - Go to Worksheets tab of Options pop-up, you will see the second option on the tab is "Create stroke sequences for each character", which is checked by default. Uncheck it and then print out the studied characters by clicking the Print button on the toolbar.

3. Blank Chinese character writing worksheets (sample 1, sample 2)- If you have not studied any characters, clicking the Print button on the toolbar will generate blank writing worksheets. If you have already studied some characters, click the Delete button on the Studied Characters pop-up to clear up the study history first, and then click the Print button.

In addition, Arch Chinese provides fine-grained control over the handwriting worksheet generation. On the Worksheet tab of the Options pop-up, you can set:

• Worksheet page orientation, portrait or landscape
• Create character stroke sequences with a smaller font and place them in one box to save space
• For each character, create how many shaded characters for tracing
• For each character, reserve how many blank writing boxes for practice without tracing.
• Create the Pinyin spelling practice grid on top of the character writing box
• For each character, show its radical along with it
• Create a worksheet page per character. When this option is enabled, the option for the reserved character practice box count will be disabled.
• For the stroke sequences, the color of the written strokes
• For the stroke sequences, the color of the new strokes. By default, it is light yellow, which will be printed as light gray on a black & white printer.
• The color of shaded characters. By default, it is light blue, which will be printed as light gray on a black & white printer
• The color of the grid.
• The color of the radical. By default, it is blue.
• The style of the writing boxes. You can select Blank, Diagonal, Cross or Square
• The size of the writing boxes. You can select Tiny, Small, Medium, Large or Huge

We have tested the worksheets on a range of black & white printers. The default settings should be good, but you are free to tweak the settings to find the combination you like.

To reset the settings to the default values, click the Reset configuration settings button on the System & Security tab of the Options pop-up.

Contact us if you have suggestions or questions regarding the character writing worksheets.

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