Beginner Chinese reading

Start with a short, approachable chapter from duwen’s public-domain Chinese library. These picks favor vocabulary at HSK 4 or below, then shorter chapters, so you can open a real story without committing to a whole book.

Chapters to start with

  1. 心有事The Heart Has Its Cares空山靈雨8 Chinese word tokens
  2. 十一　年輪轉動了The Wheel of Time Turns生死場64 Chinese word tokens
  3. 蟬The Cicada空山靈雨101 Chinese word tokens
  4. 弁言Foreword空山靈雨154 Chinese word tokens
  5. 十　十年Ten Years生死場174 Chinese word tokens
  6. 面具The Mask空山靈雨190 Chinese word tokens
  7. 蛇The Snake空山靈雨203 Chinese word tokens
  8. 我的失戀My Lost Love野草218 Chinese word tokens

HSK coverage is unavailable in this build, so no percentage badges are shown; the shortest non-empty chapters come first.

Help while you read

Tap any word for pinyin, definitions, audio, and example sentences. HSK coloring shows familiar and new vocabulary at a glance, and you can switch between traditional and simplified Chinese. Sentence-level English glosses offer another foothold when you need one.

The reader is static and needs no account: reading progress and saved vocabulary stay locally in your browser, where you can also export saved words to Anki.