Learn Chinese the way it's written — one stroke at a time.
Hanzi Ben turns character practice into something you actually do with your hand. Trace, recall and review the characters that matter, in the order that builds real fluency fastest.
本 běn — “root, origin, book”
Why handwriting
Reading recognises. Writing remembers.
Recognising a character and being able to produce it are different skills. Hanzi Ben trains the one most apps skip — and the one that makes everything else stick.
Trace, don't tap
Draw each character on a real practice grid with live stroke-order feedback, then write it again from memory.
Start with radicals
Learn the 100 building-block components first, so new characters feel like combinations you already know.
Pick your path
Follow the HSK standard — handwriting and vocabulary — Hanzi Ben’s 2,500+ most-used words, or a custom list of your own. Switch any time.
Curricula
One home screen. Four ways in.
The same chips you'll tap inside the app. Choose a track, drill into books and chapters, and begin.
Quick Access adds two standalone decks: Radicals — the 100 building-block components — and the Survival Kit, 159 high-frequency connecting words grouped by what they do in a sentence.
Pricing
Start free. Unlock everything once.
Try Hanzi Ben for real before you decide. One simple, one-time purchase unlocks the rest — no subscription.
Enough to build a genuine habit.
- Hundreds of characters across all four curricula — Hanzi Ben, HSK 3.0 Vocab and HSK 3.0 Writing
- My Hanzi custom list to practice your own characters
- Full handwriting practice, stroke order, streaks and progress
Every curriculum and character, forever.
- Every curriculum, book and chapter
- The complete character set in search and drawing
- All future content included
A one-time purchase handled by the app store, with Restore on a new device. See the Terms of Use.
How it works
From cold start to first character in under a minute.
Choose a track
Tap a curriculum chip, then pick the books and chapters you want to work through.
Write it out
Trace the character on the grid, follow the stroke order, then reproduce it from memory.
Keep the streak
Daily progress, learned markers and a forgiving streak keep momentum without the pressure.
Why learning Chinese?
A language the whole world is taking up.
In a single decade, Chinese has gone from a regional language to a global one — taught on every continent and written into national curricula around the world.
Your data
Everything stays on your device.
Hanzi Ben has no server and no account system. Your curriculum, deck order, progress, streak and custom lists live only in your browser's local storage. The Pro purchase is handled by the app store using your store account — we never see your payment details.