This app helps the user recognize, understand and remember Chinese characters more easily. It explains Chinese characters through pictographs and symbols, which helps learners to remember by picturing and imaging. The characters in the app are carefully arranged to introduce the basic symbols and pictographs that are commonly used to build other characters.

This App is helpful for:
- Chinese language learners who have learning differences (dyslexia)
- Children whose mother tongue is not Chinese
- Chinese parents in English-speaking families who wish to learn and teach
- Adults who wish to learn Chinese
- Educators and teachers looking for a Chinese character teaching aid
- All beginner learners in the Chinese language who wishes to understand Chinese characters.

Benefits:
- Taps upon both logical and artistic thinking, promoting a balanced left-right brain development.
-Logical, easiest and fastest approach: use bilingualism, relating through art drawings, ancient scripts and traditional characters
-Build a strong foundation to recognize, understand, remember and write Chinese characters
-Increase the knowledge in many useful compound words and idioms
-Develop confidence and enthusiasm in children to read Chinese books by themselves
-Unleash children’s’ creativity: translating Chinese characters into art

Features:
- Meanings of characters and compound words in English
- Writing strokes sequence, writing tips
- Hanyu Pinyin, audio pronunciations
- Ancient script, traditional character references
- Artword drawing representations
- Drawing board – drawings can be created and saved
- Radicals, phonetic hints, pictograph descriptions, character stories
- Learn These First – links to preceding characters that are related
- Compound words – examples of words formed with character
- Character search feature, search history
- Customize a lesson, save characters to Favorites
-Systematic learning syllabus - compound words contain only characters that have been taught earlier so that learner does not encounter “unknown” characters in reading examples
-A benchmarking tool to track learning progress and plan revisions by saving characters to “Favorites” and creating a user customized lesson
-Reference material for children & learners: free upgrades of later versions to more than 1000 characters



New Learning Concept:

- 字艺 Chinese-Artword – Decoding the Art of Chinese Characters
-Made in Singapore


FROM THE AUTHOR (青树):

We believe that children can learn to appreciate the art of Chinese language and the traditional values of Chinese culture, and wish to help parents who want to teach their children Chinese. We believe that children need not learn by tedious and boring process of memorizing Chinese, instead, learning can be a fun and effortless process.

Children can learn to appreciate the structure of Chinese characters through Chinese-Artword learning concept. In addition they also learn to recognize pictographs, symbols, radicals and joint-meaning characters that are formed by a combination of pictographs or symbols. The opportunity to encounter a vast volume of compound words and sentences will boost children’s vocabulary and improve their ability to read, write and express themselves.

Although extensive efforts have been made in the process of compilation and editing of the app contents, unavoidable errors and typing mistakes may still arise. We appreciate and value any advice and feedback from the users of the app.

We shall strive to improve this teaching app to help more parents and children, and sincerely hope parents and educators can give us your invaluable reviews and feedback on using the app including any feature enhancement request, or other suggestions for improvements at this website: www.chinese-artword.com