Writing in standard stroke order helps both memory and muscle memory. Practice mode checks the direction and order of each stroke, not just what the finished character looks like.
Idea / Interactive Tool
Chinese Stroke Order Practice
Enter any Chinese character to watch its standard stroke-order animation, or switch to tracing practice and get instant feedback on every stroke. Data comes from the open-source hanzi-writer and covers thousands of common characters.
- Stroke-order animation for any character
- Step through strokes or play them all
- Tracing practice with instant feedback
- Quick picks from common character sets
Writer
Pick · Watch · Practice
Pick or type a character on the right and the canvas on the left updates instantly. Demo mode plays the standard stroke order; in practice mode, trace along with your mouse or finger and get feedback on each stroke.
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Any common Chinese character works — it loads as soon as you type.
About
How this tool works
It runs entirely in your browser. Character shapes and stroke order come from the open-source hanzi-writer and Make Me a Hanzi projects, rendered with SVG — no server needed.
Open stroke data
Character data comes from the Make Me a Hanzi project, which includes SVG paths and standard stroke order for thousands of characters, all publicly available.
Real-time tracing checks
In practice mode, each stroke's direction and path are compared with the standard, so it checks how you write — not just whether the result looks similar.
Nothing to sign up for
No account, no history, no tracking. Just open it and start; refresh to begin again. Nothing about you is stored.