Free teaching tool
Match
Pair characters with their pinyin. Type your own list.
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Match the pairs
Using it
A matching game built from whatever pairs you type — this week’s vocabulary, the ten words a class keeps confusing, radicals against meanings. The cards are shuffled the same way for everybody looking at it, so a tutor and a class see an identical board.
- Tap a card
- Selects it. Tap its partner to match the pair; a wrong pair simply deselects.
- Pair
- Chooses what is matched against what — hanzi to pinyin, or hanzi to meaning.
- Words
- Your own list, one per line. The board reshuffles the moment you change it.
- The shuffle
- Is the same for everybody looking at this link, so a class and a tutor see an identical board.
Other tools
- Stroke orderWatch any character being written, one stroke at a time.
- Tone cardsThe four tones of one syllable, side by side, each with a word you can hear.
- Write itA 田字格 grid to write a character in, with the model behind it.
- Say itRecord a phrase and see the shape of your pitch against the model.
- Build a sentenceScrambled words, and slots to put them back in order.
- Pinyin tableEvery syllable Mandarin uses, one initial at a time, each one audible.