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Sketch HanYu

Draw it. Know it.

Draw a Chinese character with your finger and get its meaning, pronunciation and example sentences, even offline.

01 / The problem

Why it exists.

You cannot type a Chinese character you do not know how to pronounce. Learners get stuck on exactly the word they need to look up.

Sketch HanYu lets you draw the character instead. Recognition, dictionary and audio all run on the device.

02 / What we built

01
Handwriting recognition
Draw with a finger or stylus and get ranked matches with confidence scores.
02
Native pronunciation
Mandarin audio for every character and sentence, with tone marks.
03
Examples in context
Sentences in Simplified Chinese and Pinyin, each with an English translation.
04
Works offline
The dictionary, audio and recognition engine need no connection, and study history stays on the device.