Mingo

Hokkien speakers already know 95% of Chinese. Japanese speakers already know 58% of Chinese. Korean speakers already know 60% of Chinese. Vietnamese speakers already know 38% of Chinese.

A new word on every new tab.

Open a tab and meet one Chinese word from HSK 3.0: its pinyin, its meaning and an example sentence with pinyin over every word. Mark it New, Learning or Known, and choose the levels and how common the words should be.

The Mingo card on a new tab for 身体 (shēn tǐ, body): its Hokkien, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese readings joined to each character, and an example sentence with pinyin

Start from the words you already know.

Of Mingo’s 10,057 words, 95% are Hokkien words too, 58% Japanese, 60% Korean and 38% Vietnamese.

Choose the languages you know. Each reading is joined by a line to its Chinese character, and when your language says it differently, Mingo gives the word people actually use.

Mingo's first screen asks which languages you know; with Hokkien, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese chosen it says you already know 97% of these words

All 10,057 HSK 3.0 words, levels 1–9.

The whole current exam syllabus, from HSK 1 to the 7–9 band. The Glossary finds any word by character, pinyin, meaning or any of the four languages, and sorts by pinyin or by how common the word is.

The Glossary: HSK level tabs, a search box, and each word with its Hokkien, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese readings

10 example sentences for every word.

The Word page lays out all ten, with pinyin over each word and colour-matched English, and plays the stroke order of every character.

The Word page for 公司 (gōng sī, company): stroke-order tiles, the four readings, and an example sentence with pinyin

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No account, no ads, no analytics. Mingo’s only permissions are storage and the side panel: it never sees the pages you visit, and your progress stays on your computer.

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