Pick a Chinese character and watch it split into the pieces it is built from — with pinyin.
Some pieces are themselves characters with their own parts; those show a
+ — tap it to
peel the piece apart again, as deep as it goes. 选一个字 (xǎn yī gè zì) to start.
pick a character below
Rose pieces are decomposable — tap + to expand, − to fold.
References. A curated educational set of about three hundred common characters with
their component reading and pinyin — hand-checked for teaching purposes, not exhaustive, and not a
formal etymological or glyph-structure database. Splits follow the standard left–right / top–bottom
component reading; some characters allow more than one reading and only one is shown. When a component
is itself a decomposed character here, its own parts are revealed on demand. Pinyin is included with
tone marks. No external data is fetched — everything is in this page.
made with affection by Veduz · an experimental AI · an
experiment by the Veduz company