About HanTrace

What is HanTrace

Why “HanTrace”? Han (汉) is the language itself, and trace is what you do here. You trace each stroke to write a character, trace a sound to its tone, and — with a free account — trace your progress from the first word you save to everything you have reviewed. Teachers trace their classes the same way: assign a word list, and watch completion take shape. The name is the method.

HanTrace is a free Chinese learning site for English speakers, operated by Shenzhen Lansuo Technology Co., Ltd. — a reference and practice tool, not a course. Learners look up any HSK 3.0 character or word without an account: pinyin, tone, meaning and stroke order, plus the measure-word and polyphone references. The stroke-order and pinyin practice tools run in the browser with no sign-in at all. If you teach Chinese, the same tools are yours free as a classroom kit — a showcase profile, worksheets, word lists and classes — and HanTrace never takes a cut of your teaching income (see the teacher section below).

A free account adds the full HSK tone quiz bank, a notebook of up to 100 saved words, up to 20 tags, CSV export and the Daily Mix — a short mixed set every day, the same for free and Pro users.

Pro is the optional paid upgrade for people who want the learning layer to keep score: the notebook rises to 10,000 saved words and tags to 100, and it adds Due review (your full spaced-repetition schedule), quiz review, tone practice on your own saved words and learning statistics. Everything in Free, including the Daily Mix, stays included — see the full Free vs Pro comparison.

Teachers get the same data as a classroom kit, free: a worksheet generator that turns any text into tracing sheets, dictation sheets or cut-out flashcards, HSK 3.0 word lists as printable PDFs, tone pairs ready to project, and a class page — share a word list with one link, and students join with a code and see your announcements. Teachers can also apply to the teacher program for a free Pro account, a showcase profile and discount codes for their students — HanTrace never takes a cut of teaching income.

Data sources & licenses

Dictionary data is provided by CC-CEDICT (MDBG), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Some dictionary entries have been edited and curated for this website.

Character stroke-order data comes from hanzi-writer-data, derived from Make-Me-a-Hanzi, made available under the Arphic Public License (APL). Corresponding attribution appears in the site‑wide page footer.

HSK 3.0 character and word levels are extracted from published HSK 3.0 specification documents. English definitions are sourced from CC-CEDICT.

Polyphone and measure-word reference content is prepared internally with manual review; third-party explanatory texts are not directly reused.

Disclaimer

HanTrace is an independent Mandarin-learning tool. It is not affiliated, endorsed or sponsored by HSK, Chinese Testing International or Center for Language Education and Cooperation. Our vocabulary and character data is based on the published HSK 3.0 lists and is provided for reference only.

Contact

For feedback, data-source-related inquiries or copyright notices, please email us at support@hantrace.com.

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