Chinese Character Practice Sheets
This tool automatically generates Chinese practice sheets for you. Enter the Chinese words you want to write, then click "Get Practice Sheet": the sheet appears at once (e.g. 中,国).
Why Chinese is practised in squares
Every Chinese character occupies the same square, whether it has one stroke or twenty-four. That is the first rule of Chinese handwriting and the one that beginners break: a character written too wide, or with its parts drifting apart, is not a badly formed character but an unreadable one. The gridded paper that Chinese schoolchildren use exists to teach that proportion, and it teaches it faster than any amount of advice.
The grid with diagonals through it, the one this generator produces, is the standard practice paper. The lines are there to be aimed at: the centre point tells you where the balance of the character should fall, and the quarters tell you how its components should share the space.
Type the characters you are learning, and you get a sheet to print with each one repeated to be traced and then copied. Handwriting is worth the time even in a world of keyboards, because writing a character is what makes you notice its parts, and noticing its parts is what makes you remember it.