Free Printable Chinese Character Practice Sheets (PDF)
Start Mandarin the way Chinese pupils do: learn how pinyin spells the sounds, then the basic strokes that every character is built from. This PDF has a pinyin chart with the four tones, a chart of 16 basic strokes with their Chinese names, and Tian Zi Ge worksheets for tracing each stroke and your first 16 characters.
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What’s on the page
- Pages
- 5: pinyin chart, basic strokes chart, 2 tracing worksheets, 1 blank Tian Zi Ge page
- Content
- initials, finals, whole syllables and tones; 16 basic strokes; 16 first characters (一, 人, 中 …) with pinyin and meaning; simplified Chinese
- How it was made
- Prepared with the help of AI. Every character, stroke and pinyin reading was checked against Unicode and CLDR data. Spotted a mistake? Write to contact@lsnotebooks.com.
- Squares
- about 14 mm with dashed centre guides (Tian Zi Ge), Name and Date line on each worksheet
- Paper sizes
- US Letter (8.5 × 11 in) and A4
Tips
- Trace the grey shapes slowly, then write on your own in the empty squares.
- Say the pinyin with its tone out loud every time you write a character.
- Follow the basic stroke order rules: top before bottom, left before right, horizontal before vertical.
- Use the dashed cross to keep each character centred and balanced.
