Cards and Search
Review Hanzi, Pinyin, meaning, examples and pronunciation. When you have a specific doubt, look it up without changing your progress.
Practice companion
Learn it in your course. Make it yours with Mandarin Orbit.
Already met a word in class or in your course? Practise it from different angles: meaning, sound, Pinyin, Hanzi, tones, writing and sentences.
- No account
- Progress stays on your device
- No ads
- English and Italian
Mandarin Orbit · Guided and free practice
Why it exists
Recognising a word is not the same as being able to retrieve it.
Seeing 你好 and thinking “hello” is one thing. Understanding it from sound alone, remembering nǐ hǎo, identifying the tones or writing the characters is another. Mandarin Orbit is built around those connections.
Listening
Start from sound and retrieve meaning, Hanzi, Pinyin, tones or type Pinyin from dictation.
Build
Move from Pinyin to Hanzi, Hanzi to Pinyin, rebuild sentences and identify word boundaries.
Writing
Practise complete words one character at a time, with stroke order, hints and free writing.
Sentences and grammar
Put vocabulary back into context with HSK 1 sentences and concise grammar explanations.
Guided practice
Choose 5, 10 or 15 cards and let the app mix what deserves more attention. Or practise freely.
The idea
When the clue changes, find out how well the word has really become yours.
Use Mandarin Orbit alongside your course, teacher or preferred learning resource. The same vocabulary comes back from different directions, helping you see which connections already feel solid and which still need practice.
See how to use itOne HSK 1
word
MeaningHanziPinyinToneListeningContextword
In practice
Open it when you know what you want to do. Or when you don’t.
Choose the activity yourself when you have a specific goal. Or start a Guided practice session: Mandarin Orbit uses your local progress to vary vocabulary and skills, giving more room to what you have practised less.
After a lesson
Revisit the words you have just studied, listen without looking, then try rebuilding or writing them.
One word will not stick
Search for it, listen to it, meet it in a sentence and change the clue. If only one mode trips you up, you have found what to practise.
You do not want to choose
Open Guided practice, choose how many cards to practise and let the app build a mixed session from your local progress.
Inside Mandarin Orbit
Discover more ways to practise.
A short visual overview of how learning, practice, review, progress and free choice come together in Mandarin Orbit.
弓弦之间 · original track
Swipe through the images or use the arrows.
Essential privacy
Your progress is there to help you, not profile you.
No account, advertising, in-app analytics or profiling. Progress stays on your device; microphone and speech features are used only when you ask for them.
How your data is handledLocal progressExport or import it through a file you control.
Microphone on requestPronunciation recordings are temporary and are not sent to the developer.
Device speechMandarin Orbit uses the TTS engine available on your device.
Independent project
Built by a Chinese learner, for Chinese learners.
Mandarin Orbit started as a tool I wanted for my own study: somewhere I could return to the words I was learning and test them in different ways. Then I decided to share it.
Why I built Mandarin Orbit