HĀNZI

汉字 · 演变 · 记忆

Top 50 most frequent characters — 40%+ of daily Chinese text. Learn them through 3,000 years of visual evolution: see how each character transformed across oracle bone, bronze, seal, clerical, and regular script.

Oracle ~1200 BCE
Bronze ~1000 BCE
Seal ~221 BCE
Clerical ~200 BCE
Regular ~200 CE
50 characters covering >40% of daily text 5 script stages each 象形 · 指事 · 形声