Vocabulary
Chinese Family Words for Kids: 爸爸, 妈妈 and More with Pinyin
Chinese family member words for kids with characters, pinyin and meanings, why so many repeat (妈妈, 哥哥), neutral-tone tips, and family-tree worksheet ideas.
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Printable pinyin worksheets from any Chinese text
Paste the characters your child, student or you are learning this week. Get a clean A4 sheet with pinyin above every character, set in a proper 田字格 (tianzige) grid, ready to print.
One paste, three sheets
What you can make
Full Full sheets for reading
Pinyin sits above each character in the grid, so a learner can read a short text, a word list or a poem and connect sound to shape.
描红 Tracing sheets (描红)
Characters are printed in light grey for tracing over. Children learning in Chinese schools use this kind of sheet to practise proportion and stroke placement inside the grid.
Blank Blank sheets for dictation
Only the pinyin is printed and the squares are empty. Read the words aloud (or let the learner read the pinyin) and have them write the characters from memory.
How it works
How it works
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Paste
Chinese characters: a word list, a short passage, a poem or this week's new characters.
2
Choose a mode
full, tracing or blank (dictation).
3
Check the pinyin.
Characters with more than one reading (多音字) are highlighted so you can confirm the right one for your sentence.
4Print
on A4, or save as PDF.
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Learn while you print
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Our short guides explain the basics parents and teachers ask about most: teaching the four tones, the full initials and finals chart, how to use a tianzige grid, the tone change rules for 一, 不 and third tones and a starter list of characters for young learners.
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Routine & curriculum
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Real sheets
Made for real homework
Punctuation gets its own square, as it does in Chinese exercise books, and paragraphs start with a two-square indent. You print exactly the text you paste, not a fixed list from someone else.
- Punctuation gets its own square
- Paragraphs start with a two-square indent
- Optional name / date line and sheet title
- Spoken tones for 一 / 不 when you want them
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