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Anki for Chinese
Choose your Anki deck to see its words, reviews and what’s due today, then bring it into Review with every interval kept.
.apkg or .colpkg, any size
- Words
- With their reviews
- Due today
- In a sentence
Review and Anki
| What | Mandarin The Wild | Anki |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduler | FSRS-6, the scheduler Anki added in 23.10, for every word | FSRS-6 when turned on, otherwise SM-2 |
| Adding a word | Hover any Chinese word on a web page or in subtitles and keep it in one press, with its sentence | Make the card by hand or find a shared deck |
| On the card | The sentence it was met in, tone-coloured pinyin, two recorded voices and, from YouTube, the scene | What the deck’s author put on it |
| Pinyin and tones | Built in, coloured by tone | An add-on such as Chinese Support |
| Your progress | Your Anki deck comes in with every answer, so each word is due when Anki would have shown it | Kept in Anki |
Free HSK Anki decks
Every word of each HSK level on the 2025 syllabus, with pinyin, meaning and two native voices. The deck downloads with a free account.
Do my intervals carry over?
Yes. Every answer in your deck’s review log (Again, Hard, Good, Easy) is replayed through Review’s FSRS schedule in order, so a word you’ve known for months comes back in months, and one you forgot last week is due soon. Suspended cards come in paused.
Is my deck uploaded?
Reading it happens in your browser. Only the words, their pinyin, decks, sentences and answers are sent when you bring them in; images and audio in the deck are never read or sent.
Which decks work?
Any Chinese deck exported from Anki as a .apkg (Export › Anki Deck Package, with scheduling information) or a whole collection as a .colpkg, from old Anki versions to new: Basic, Basic and reversed, Cloze, Chinese Support notes and hand-made ones. A cloze card brings the word it hides, in its sentence.
Can I keep using Anki?
Yes. Nothing changes in Anki. Bring a deck in again later and the words already in your Backpack stay as they are.