Free Chinese Anki Decks
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Learn essential Mandarin animal vocabulary with simplified and traditional characters, pinyin, English translations, helpful images and native audio. Created by Kaoya Chinese.
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This awesome Anki deck is designed to help you learn 800 frequently used Chinese characters. Each card includes the character, pinyin, audio pronunciation, sample words, and a sample sentence, giving you several ways to understand and remember each character.
Need more examples? Each card also includes a link to a more detailed explanation with additional examples of how the character is used. Updated in 2023.
Study the 3,000 most commonly used Chinese characters, arranged according to Jun Da’s Modern Chinese Character Frequency List. Each card includes simplified and traditional forms—including multiple traditional forms where applicable, along with pinyin, audio, meaning, HSK level, stroke count, radical, and animated or font-based stroke order.
The deck is especially useful for building character recognition, focusing study by HSK level, and practicing handwriting or calligraphy. Most dictionary information comes from MDBG, while character links open in the YellowBridge Chinese Dictionary.
Learn the Mandarin names of countries around the world with cards in both English-to-Mandarin and Mandarin-to-English formats. The deck includes color-coded tones and audio to reinforce correct pronunciation.
198 Notes - SLearn essential Mandarin vocabulary and practical phrases for asking for directions, giving directions, and describing locations. Each card includes simplified and traditional Chinese characters, pinyin, and audio. Created by MandarinMania.com.
255 Notes - S/TE-G
Learn Mandarin names for family members and relatives, including parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Includes simplified Chinese characters, color-coded tones, pinyin, and audio.
50 Notes - SLearn essential Mandarin fruit vocabulary with simplified and traditional characters, pinyin, English translations, helpful images and native audio. Created by Kaoya Chinese.
40 Notes - S/TThis deck contains content sourced from AllSet Learning’s Chinese Grammar Wiki.
The cards feature example sentences and phrases taken directly from grammar articles on the site. Each card also includes a link to the specific article where the example appears, making it easy to review the example in its original context.
Because the Wiki is updated periodically, the linked articles may change over time.
The deck covers A1 through C1, corresponding roughly to HSK 1 through HSK 5, and is organized progressively, starting with A1-level content. Updated in 2018
Learn natural Mandarin greeting vocabulary and phrases used by native speakers rather than standard textbook greetings. Includes simplified and traditional characters, pinyin, English translations, and audio. Created with by MandarinMania.com.
87 Notes - S/tLearn essential Mandarin greeting vocabulary and phrases with simplified and traditional characters, pinyin, English translations, and audio. Created by MandarinMania.com.
78 Cards - S/TH-K
Strengthen your Mandarin listening skills with Tingli’s HSK 1 deck. Each card features a spoken Chinese sentence with an English translation, helping beginners recognize essential HSK 1 vocabulary in context while becoming more comfortable with natural-speed Mandarin.
589 Notes - SBuild your Mandarin skills with HSK Levels 1–3 vocabulary and example sentences. Each card includes simplified Chinese characters, pinyin, English translations, and audio to strengthen vocabulary, pronunciation, and listening comprehension.
1800 Notes - SMaster HSK 2.0 Levels 1–6 with this comprehensive flashcard deck featuring simplified and traditional characters, pinyin, color-coded tones, extensive English definitions, classifiers, and words with the same pinyin. No audio included.
4,995 Notes S/TLearn essential Mandarin insect vocabulary with simplified and traditional characters, pinyin, English translations, and audio. Created by MandarinMania.com.
84 Notes - S/TL-Q
Learn essential Mandarin love and dating vocabulary and phrases with simplified and traditional characters, pinyin, English translations, and audio. Created by MandarinMania.com.
357 Notes - S/TThe 10-level Mastering Chinese Characters series covers 98% of the characters commonly used in newspapers.
Mastering Chinese Collection: Level 1
Mastering Chinese Collection: Level 2
Mastering Chinese Collection: Level 3
Levels 4–8 are those that a student should try to master in the second year of full-time intensive training, to provide a solid basis for attaining true professional proficiency in reading.
Mastering Chinese Collection: Level 4
Mastering Chinese Collection: Level 5
Mastering Chinese Collection: Level 6
Mastering Chinese Collection: Level 7
Mastering Chinese Collection: Level 8
Levels 9–10 are designed for advanced learners. Although reading Chinese requires more than recognizing individual characters, fast and accurate character recognition is essential for developing fluency and reading with ease.
Mastering Chinese Collection: Level 9
Mastering Chinese Collection: Level 10 S/T
Master all 241 Mandarin measure words with simplified Chinese characters, pinyin, usage explanations, practical examples, audio, and tags for easy sorting. Created by MandarinMania.com.
241 Notes - SLearn the meanings of 3,035 traditional Chinese hanzi through memorable mnemonic stories. Following the Heisig book series, the characters are arranged logically according to their graphical components rather than by frequency of use or alphabetical pinyin. Each card also includes the simplified Chinese equivalent and an animated stroke-order guide to reinforce writing skills and character recognition.
3035 Notes - S/TR-Z
Master the 100 most common Chinese radicals with simplified and traditional characters, English meanings, audio, example characters and each radical’s colloquial name.
100 Notes - S/TContains examples of the Radical in Use. This deck includes the hanzi for all 214 radicals, simplified forms for the few that have them, pinyin written with tone marks, the simplest definition of each radical, and examples using the character. The information is based on Wikipedia’s page on Kangxi radicals (modern-day radicals)
214 Cards - SLearn essential Mandarin vegetable vocabulary with simplified and traditional characters, pinyin, English translations, helpful images and native audio. Created by Kaoya Chinese.
41 Notes - S/TLearn Zhuyin (Bopomofo) with detailed flashcards featuring each symbol’s origin, pronunciation audio, IPA, pinyin, Wade–Giles, example words, position, tone number, tone name and tone letter. Information on symbol origins, tonal marks and tone numbers was sourced from Wikipedia, with audio provided by MDN Kids.
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