Hanly: Chinese Decoded

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1.67K reviews
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PEGI 3
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About this app

Chinese characters are not random shapes - learn 1000 characters in months by understanding their structure and origin! Through visual breakdowns and engaging stories, Hanly helps you develop an intuitive grasp of Chinese characters and to efficiently remember them. Hanly starts with simple components and quickly builds up to complex characters, while focusing on the most frequently used vocabulary.

CARDS THAT MAKE CHARACTERS COME ALIVE
Etymology, memorable illustrations, mnemonics: we will provide the most helpful information to get a character to come alive in your imagination and stick in your memory for good.

INTUITIVE INTERACTIVE UI
Play with characters like they’re Lego blocks! Explore radicals, components, compound words, and character relationships - all just one click away!

CAREFULLY OPTIMIZED LEARNING PROGRESSION
Start with simple building blocks and naturally progress to complex characters. Our carefully designed levels introduce the most frequent characters early while maintaining coherent, meaningful themes.

EXTENSIVE CHARACTER DICTIONARY & SEARCH
Search by character, pinyin or meaning to find:
- Character meanings and pronunciations
- Usage in compound words and characters
- Frequency and HSK level
- Radical forms
- Stroke order animations
- Character evolution history

SPACED REPETITION ENGINE INTEGRATED WITH THE UI
Built-in spaced repetition helps you review characters at the perfect time, with review schedule optimized for how well you know a given character. Character progress is deeply integrated with the UI, so that you can spot the characters you are learning on any page.

AND MANY MORE FEATURES!
- Detailed learning statistics
- Character etymology stories & fun facts
- Explore characters & radicals sorted by their frequency
- Personal note-taking system
- Easily mark characters you already know

Terms of use: https://www.hanlyapp.com/terms-of-use
Privacy policy: https://www.hanlyapp.com/privacy-policy

Contact us:
We’d love to hear from your feedback about Hanly! Please send us an email at tutu@hanlyapp.com
Get the Chinese characters to live in your head rent-free!
Updated on
Aug 16, 2026

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  • Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

1.6K reviews
seuny
September 4, 2025
Amazing app highly recommended for anyone who is trying to recall characters. I can't tell you how much I love this app looking forward to how much more it can develop. I can look up new words I come across in my immersion by components, I love that it tells me related characters, breakdown of character into components, words that has the character in it and example sentences. I can follow their order of learning or do my own. I can mark words known just brilliant. 也 writing practice. - Funmi
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level138inrs
January 6, 2026
This is the perfect way to learn to read characters. I love the way they build up your knowledge with a mixture of history and mnemonic head canon. It is taught so incredibly well. Even incorporates flashcards and SRS so I don't even need to do any work. it's the favourite part of my study journey rn. wish there was a way to train reading and writing as separate skills (there is an option to do writing but it seems like it's combined with reading??)
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Andris Undiks
November 6, 2025
Exceptional. Both as an app and as a learning tool. The methodology is stellar, units are perfectly sized and well thought. Memorising hanzi is arguably the hardest (and let's be honest, most frustrating) part of learning Chinese, but Hanly manages to make it fun, informative and my god it's effective at making it stick. My goal of learning 2k characters to read basic Chinese doesn't seem daunting anymore. 10/10 I cannot imagine using anything else to learn hanzi.
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