hanivio.

Hanivio — pronounced HAN-nee-vee-oh

Start with the sounds.
Build your Chinese.

Hanivio is a Chinese-learning brand for ambitious modern learners — from first exposure to Chinese you can actually use, with clarity, confidence, and relevance.

Start here — the sounds of Chinese in 2 minutes Get Pinyin Chart on the App Store

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Interactive pinyin chart

Browse every Mandarin syllable, filter by tone, hear example characters, and open their stroke order.

Dictionary lookup

Search by characters, pinyin, or English — with tone-marked pinyin, meanings, HSK levels, and animated stroke order.

HSK vocabulary lists

Work through the graded HSK 2.0 and HSK 3.0 word lists with pinyin and meanings.

Tone-pairs trainer

Drill the tone combinations of real words with native recordings — the step between single syllables and connected speech.

Reader & sentence library

Read pasted Chinese with tap-to-translate, or study curated HSK-appropriate sentences with pinyin, audio, and translations.

Beta — free to use while we build. Audio uses your device’s Chinese voice.

We started with a chart. We’re building what comes next.

Pinyin Chart began with one focused goal: make the sounds of Mandarin easier to explore.

Along the way, we built other Chinese-learning tools, including vocabulary resources. Each solved a different problem — but learners should not have to piece together a collection of separate apps to get started.

So we’re bringing those tools together. The latest release combines the pinyin chart with a full set of pronunciation lessons and a vocabulary list — the next step toward a more connected Chinese-learning experience.

Pinyin Chart is becoming Hanivio: the chart you know, with more ways to learn Chinese.

Understand the sounds. Build your vocabulary.

Hear the sounds of Mandarin

Explore pinyin — the system that uses letters to represent Mandarin pronunciation. Listen to native-speaker audio, compare sounds and tones, and return to the chart whenever you need a reference.

Understand how to pronounce them

Go beyond listening with a full set of embedded pronunciation lessons that explain how Mandarin sounds work. Work through them at your own pace and revisit the sounds you find challenging.

Build your vocabulary

Take the next step with the vocabulary list. Start learning Chinese words alongside your pronunciation study — chart, lessons, and vocabulary together in one app.

Something more than a pinyin chart.

Learning that grows beyond the chart

We’re developing Hanivio release by release. New learning experiences arrive as they are ready — every release is built to be useful on its own.

Personalized practice

We’re exploring ways to personalize practice around what each learner needs next.

Open source

We plan to open-source selected parts of the project, wherever licensing and privacy allow.

Be part of the next chapter.