Chinese Character Practice Sheet Generator (田字格)

Type any Chinese characters and instantly build a printable 田字格 (tián zì gé) or 米字格 worksheet with tracing guides — free, no download.

Each character becomes its own practice block. Spaces and line breaks are ignored. (Up to 100 characters.)
Chinese Writing Practice
Name: ____________________  Date: __________
Quick answer: A 田字格 (tián zì gé, “field-character grid”) is the cross-lined square Chinese students use to learn handwriting — the dashed lines mark the four quadrants so each stroke lands in the right spot. This free generator turns any characters you type into a printable 田字格 (or 米字格) worksheet with a model character, faded tracing cells, and blank cells for practice.

How to make a Chinese practice sheet

  1. Type or paste the characters you want to practice in the box above.
  2. Pick the grid style (田字格 or 米字格), cell size, columns, and rows per character.
  3. Optionally add a four-line pinyin strip or switch to a gray, ink-saving grid.
  4. Click Print / Save as PDF — the navigation, controls, and ads are removed automatically.

田字格 vs 米字格

Both are square guides. The 田字格 has one vertical and one horizontal center line (four quadrants, like 田 “field”). The 米字格 adds two diagonals (eight sections, like 米 “rice”), giving beginners extra reference points for stroke angle and proportion. Start with 田字格; switch to 米字格 for tricky, balanced characters.

Pair these worksheets with our animated Stroke Order Animator, the on-screen Character Writing Practice tool, and the guide to writing Chinese characters. Practising your own Chinese name? The name practice card lays it out stroke by stroke, with its pinyin, ready to print.

Why Chinese students write in this box: 田字格 and 米字格 · 0:46 Narration and Chinese audio are synthesized speech (Microsoft Azure neural voices). More short Chinese lesson videos
Transcript
  1. Why do Chinese students learn to write in this box?
  2. The answer is in its lines, and in its name.
  3. Two centre lines cut the square into four quadrants,
  4. like the character for field.
  5. 田字格 (tián zì gé)
  6. 田字格 (tián zì gé)
  7. Add two diagonals, and you get eight sections,
  8. like the character for rice.
  9. 米字格 (mǐ zì gé)
  10. 米字格 (mǐ zì gé)
  11. The diagonals give beginners extra reference points for stroke angle.
  12. Start with the cross, then add diagonals for tricky, balanced characters.
  13. Now type a character, and watch it land.
  14. Each one gets a model, faded tracing cells, and blank cells to practise.
  15. The centre lines show where each stroke lands.
  16. Make your own practice sheet, free, at The Pure Language dot com.

The centre lines show where each stroke lands.

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Want it already made? The generator above builds a sheet from whatever you type, which is the right tool when you know which characters you are practising. If you would rather have a ready file to keep, the free 田字格 Character Practice Pack is blank grids in three sizes plus a traced row for every character HSK 1–3 uses — one of four printable packs, with no sign-up and no email address.

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Draw a Character to Look It Up Find a Character by Its Parts Radical Walker: Radical → Character → Word Stroke Order Animator Chinese Dictionary Character Writing Practice