Lexxio · Mandarin
Learn Mandarin the way it's actually written.
Master hanzi, stroke order, and Pinyin, then gradually move from pronunciation support to real Chinese reading, all inside one adaptive reader.
nǐ · you
The Pinyin course
Hanzi, pinyin, or both. You choose.
Start sounding words out in pinyin, add hanzi once you're ready to recognize them, or drop pinyin entirely and read like a native speaker. Switch anytime, everywhere Mandarin text appears.
Pronunciation right above every word.
Tone Check
Say it out loud. See exactly which tone slipped.
Record yourself saying a word from your own study list and get back a pitch contour laid right over the native target, plus a plain-English note on what to fix, not just a pass/fail score.
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Your pitch, against the real shape
Every recording becomes a pitch contour scored against the correct rising, falling, dipping, or flat shape for that tone, not just a generic accuracy number.
Native audio, male or female
Hear the word first in a real native voice before you try it yourself, and pick whichever voice is easier for you to match.
Slow it down and see where it slipped
Open a word's detail view to play your recording back at half speed next to the native version, with a moving marker so you can see exactly where your pitch drifted from the target.
Save your best attempt
Keep a good recording on file for any word so you can replay it later instead of starting over from scratch.
Tone Check is in beta. The screen above shows it as it looks today; the UI is still being refined and may change.
Character study
Thousands of characters, ranked by how much each one matters.
Tap any character from a word, the dictionary, or your reading to see its frequency rank, meaning, radical, and stroke count, then send it into the same review queue as the rest of your vocabulary.
Ranked by how often it's used
Every character carries a frequency rank pulled from real usage, and a coverage number showing how much everyday written Chinese you'd recognize once you know it.
A queue that keeps bringing it back
Start learning a character and it joins the same spaced-repetition deck as the rest of your vocabulary, resurfacing on a schedule until it sticks, or mark it known if you already have it.
Stroke order you can practice
Watch the character animate stroke by stroke, slow it down, or switch to write mode and trace it yourself.
See it in real words
Every character comes with the compound words that use it, each with its own audio, so you see it doing actual work, not sitting alone on a flashcard.
What you get
Built for a script Latin-language tools weren't.
Every stroke, in order
Watch any character animate stroke by stroke, step through it one stroke at a time, or test yourself with a practice quiz that checks direction, not just shape.
Pinyin, everywhere you read
The same hanzi/pinyin/both toggle follows you through the reader, Explain, and Translate, so you're never fighting the tool to see what you actually need.
Read aloud that gets the tones right
Neural text-to-speech tuned specifically for tonal Mandarin, so tones land right instead of flattening out like generic TTS voices do.
The full Lexxio library, in Chinese
70,000+ public domain books, graded to your level, plus Lexxio Originals. It all works the same in Mandarin as in every other language we support.
Pinyin that fades out as you learn
We're building adaptive reading: pinyin stays above characters you don't know yet, and quietly disappears above the ones you've already learned, so the crutch comes down naturally as your hanzi recognition grows instead of all at once.
No flipping a global switch and hoping you're ready. The page adapts character by character, tracking what you've marked known as you go.
Be first through the door.
Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment Lexxio is ready to read. Anticipated late Fall 2026.