The First 1000 Reference Sheets
A printable reference book for the 1,000 most common characters: definitions, component breakdowns, HSK vocabulary and a pinyin index.
- Simplified and traditional forms, in large type
- A breakdown of each character’s components
- The three most common HSK words using each character
- Easy-lookup index ordered by pinyin
What you get
A character isn’t a picture to be memorised whole. It’s built from parts, it turns up inside words, and it sits at a particular level of the HSK. These sheets give you all of that for each of the 1,000 most common characters, in a form you can print and flick through.
Two PDF books: one built around mainland simplified Chinese, one around traditional characters as used in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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.
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.