The First 1000 Chinese Characters Poster
The 1,000 most common Chinese characters on one wall poster, ordered by frequency. Around 90% of what you’ll meet in a modern text.
- Simplified edition, with pinyin and English keywords
- Traditional edition, with zhuyin (bopomofo) and pinyin
- Designed at 50 × 70cm. Vector, so print it any size
- Coordinates cross-referencing our other resources
What you get
Around 90% of the characters you’ll meet in a modern Chinese text are in this thousand. They’re ordered by frequency, so you start with the ones that actually earn their keep, which makes the poster as useful on day one as it is two years in.
This is our original product, the one the whole catalogue grew out of. Put it somewhere you’ll look at it every day.
Goes well with
Everything we make, in one download: the first 2,000 characters as posters, practice sheets, reference sheets and flashcards, plus every radicals resource.
The 1,000 most common Chinese characters, four ways: poster, practice sheets, reference sheets and flashcards.
Writing Chinese isn’t easy and there’s no shortcut. Print these, grab a pencil, and get practising. Stroke order diagrams included.