🐉 Chinese for Kids
The complete reading ladder for young learners: master pinyin sounds, meet your first characters, then unlock whole character families — one level at a time.
🎯 Not sure where to start?
Take a 5-minute placement test — skip what you already know and start at the right level.
- Level 0 · Pinyin I🔒
🐻 Pinyin for Kids
The gateway to reading Chinese: a 10-lesson animated pinyin adventure. Kids learn the vowels, consonants and four tones with the Pinyin Kingdom bear — one focused classroom session at a time.
0/10 lessons - Level 1 · Pinyin II🔒
U0001f43b❄️ Pinyin for Kids II
Complete the pinyin system: flat-tongue z c s, all six compound finals, front and back nasals, and the 16 whole syllables — graduate with every Mandarin sound in hand.
0/10 lessons - Level 2 · Strokes & Writing🔒
✏️ Strokes & Writing
From pinyin to the pen: what characters are, the basic strokes, the stroke-order rules, and the radicals that organize them all — taught in clear English by ChineseFor.Us.
0/8 lessons - Level 3 · First Characters🔒
🌱 First Characters
A first step into Chinese characters for ages 3–7. Each lesson bundles short story animations that teach 2–3 everyday characters — sun, rain, family and numbers — followed by a picture-friendly quiz.
0/8 lessons - Level 4 · Character Families🔒
🔥 Character Families
Level up with Mi Xiaoquan's animated character families: discover how the fire, water, wood and metal radicals build whole families of characters — the superpower behind reading hundreds of new words.
0/8 lessons - Level 5 · Character Families II🔒
✍️ Character Families II
Eight more radical families with Mi Xiaoquan: hand, speech, jade, woman, eye, sickness, door and bamboo — finish this and you can decode characters you've never met.
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U0001f3c3 Character Families III
Eight more radical families with Mi Xiaoquan: walk, shelter, sun, moon, silk, dog, heart and clothing — 24 families mastered, the meaning-half of Chinese decoded.
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U0001f3c6 Character Families IV
The final family run: mouth, mountain, knife, vehicle and rain — then the great character game crowns your radical mastery. 29 families complete!
0/6 lessons - 🔒
U0001f4ac Everyday Characters
The words of daily life: numbers, me-you-him, sky and earth, face and farm — 24 everyday characters that turn knowledge into real reading.
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✒️ Radical Writing Workshop I
Recognize → write: stroke-by-stroke handwriting of the radicals you mastered — person, speech, silk, metal, mouth, earth, wood and heart.
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U0001f58c️ Radical Writing Workshop II
The graduation workshop: stone, door, insect, clothing, knife and the double-person step — six more radicals in your own handwriting. 4-6 curriculum complete!
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