Hokkien speakers already recognize 95% of Chinese. Japanese speakers already recognize 58% of Chinese. Korean speakers already recognize 60% of Chinese. Vietnamese speakers already recognize 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: an HSK 3.0 word with its pinyin and meaning, its Hokkien, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese readings joined to each character, and an example sentence with pinyin over every word

Start from the words you already recognize

95% of Mingo’s 10,057 words also exist in Hokkien, 58% in Japanese, 60% in Korean, and 38% in Vietnamese.

Choose the languages you know. Each reading lines up syllable by syllable with the characters above, and when your language says it differently, Mingo gives the word people actually use.

Mingo's first screen asks which languages you know: Hokkien, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese

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: stroke-order tiles, the four readings, and ten example sentences with pinyin

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