Ambient Hanzi: Learn Mandarin

Every Chinese character has a story. 明 is the sun and the moon. 好 is a woman and a child. Ambient Hanzi teaches real HSK vocabulary, levels 1 to 9, by showing how each character is built, so words make sense instead of being memorized cold. THREE WAYS TO STUDY • The HSK path: a fresh set of new words and reviews every day, at the pace you pick. • The deck library: 45 ready-made decks, from Time and dates to Food and drink, plus decks of characters that share a radical. Add one and it is yours to edit. • Your own decks: build them from your class or textbook. Search, paste a word list, add a whole HSK level, or scan a page. Decks hold words and whole sentences. EXPLORE EVERY CHARACTER • Character breakdowns: the parts each character is built from, and what each one brings: meaning, sound, or history. • Follow a part down two levels, then across: see which characters take their sound from it (青 gives its sound to 请, 情, 晴 and 清) and which others are built with it. • Every word in real sentences, and any sentence taken apart word by word. STUDY TOOLS • Flip: flashcards for words or sentences, on a spaced-repetition schedule. Grade your own recall, type the pinyin, or pick the answer from four close choices. • Hear: listen to a real sentence, then rebuild it with word tiles, pinyin, or characters. Or hear a single word and pick it from four close choices. • Write: watch the stroke order, then write each character on a 田字格 grid, checked stroke by stroke. • Tone curves: a curve under each word's pinyin shows its tone shape. LOOK UP WHAT YOU SEE • Scan: point your camera at a menu or a sign, or pick a photo. Recognition runs on your phone, so the photo never leaves it. • Find by parts: can't read a character? Pick the parts you can see and it shows up. • Draw it: write a character with your finger, one after another, to build a whole word. • Every way ends on the word's card, ready to add to a deck. • Dictionary: 12,100 words and 10,254 example sentences, searchable by hanzi, pinyin, or meaning. SHARE WITH FRIENDS • Send any deck as a link, or show it as a QR code to the person next to you. • Add your Flip score and it arrives as a challenge to beat. • Share a word or a finished session as a story card. ALL AROUND YOU • Five home screen widgets (word, grid, date, clock, battery) put a word where you look all day. • An optional notification shows a word. Tap it to open that word's card. PROGRESS • A daily goal, streaks with streak freezes, and a practice calendar. • Achievements as seals: earn one and it gets stamped. • Stats for every level of the HSK path, and the words that keep slipping. HSK 1 AND PRO Every feature works with HSK 1, for as long as you study, with three decks from the library and your own decks of HSK 1 words. Ambient Hanzi Pro opens HSK 2 to 9, every deck in the library, and words outside the HSK lists. No account, no ads, no internet needed. Everything stays on your phone.