About zh

zh teaches Chinese the way you'll use it: by reading. Its course gives you a few words at a time and a reading written only in the words you know; its reader splits any text into words and gives each its pinyin and meaning; and its review brings every word you keep back on the day you'd be about to forget it.

How review is scheduled

With FSRS (version 5, its default parameters), the scheduler Anki ships, aiming for a nine-in-ten chance you remember a word when it comes back. Every review you do is kept, so the schedule can one day be fitted to you.

Credits

• The dictionary is CC-CEDICT, published by MDBG under CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Example sentences are from Tatoeba, under CC BY 2.0 FR; each links to its page there.
• HSK levels follow the 2025 syllabus, as gathered by complete-hsk-vocabulary (MIT).
• How often words are written comes from jieba's dictionary (MIT); characters' usual readings and strokes from Unicode's Unihan database.

The course's readings are written for zh, and are being checked by native speakers.