Hanzi Xiaobai: Learning Chinese one tab at a time

A few years ago I had the opportunity to study in China at Tsinghua University with my good friend Clément (the other maker) We both fell in love with the country, he stayed there and I came to France for a bit. I knew I was going to travel back to China at some point and live there for a while. I wanted a way to keep practicing my Chinese a little bit each day, at least keep in touch with the language. I found various books, podcasts, and apps but I could not always make up time for it. We knew we spent countless hours on our computer because both of us are software engineer, so we built a simple tool with a simple promise 🇨🇳 Every time we open a new tab you get a new Chinese character to practice Of course, you can do more than that - You can get the pinyin and English definition. - You can listen to native people pronouncing the character out loud to perfect your tones. - You get a small list of Chinese/English sentences using that specific character so you learn with context. - You can practice your drawing and stroke order as well. - We highlight the root of each character. - Finally, you can choose the HSK levels you want to practice and we will only pick Chinese characters from this dataset. - We also included a list of the best resources to dive deeper into Chinese 💻 Technology Stack I know some people like to know the stack that was used so here it is - Svelte - Rollup - Tailwind CSS It was the first time we built a browser extension, we had never used Svelte or Rollup before. So the code might be a bit rusty, but here it is! 🧧 Get in touch If for some reasons you want to get in touch with us you can at hello@hzxiaobai.org We hope you enjoy it and have as much fun learning Chinese as we do!

Maker

6yr ago

I am a Chinese teacher. And I think Hanzi Xiaobai is great for people who want to learn the Chinese language.

I really like hanzi xiaobai because it is beautiful, useful and clean. I would recommend it to my Chinese students

My Canadian boyfriend finally started to love to learn Chinese after I had recommended Hanzi Xiaobai to him. I would recommend to any Chinese who want their boyfriend or girlfriend to start to learn more about the Chinese language and culture!