Greetings in Chinese
Use the greetings pack with Chinese words such as welcome, meet, friend, and tomorrow.
Preview the pack →English ↔ Chinese
Play your way into Chinese vocabulary
Build useful Chinese vocabulary through short challenges, visual prompts, and words connected to real situations—not a disconnected list.
A complete learning loop
From English word to Chinese recall
MemDecks turns the pieces of vocabulary learning into one playable loop.
- 01
Meet
See a useful word with a picture, Chinese script, transliteration, and audio.
- 02
Choose
Make quick recognition decisions and get immediate, forgiving feedback.
- 03
Build
Combine familiar words into harder phrase and recall challenges.
- 04
Keep playing
Save learned words to your collection and reuse them in other games.
What you get
What MemDecks supports for Chinese
Chinese is one of 16 study languages, each learned from English. Support depth differs between them; this is what Chinese has.
| Feature | Chinese |
|---|---|
| Script | Han (中文) |
| Transliteration | Shown under every word, in Latin letters |
| Audio | On every card |
| Grammatical gender | Not marked on cards |
| Phrase Builder lessons | 14 |
| Alphabet Quest | No |
| On-screen keyboard | Yes |
Real lesson content
14 Chinese phrases you learn in Phrase Builder
Each Phrase Builder lesson teaches one phrase and the words inside it. These are the Chinese lessons as published.
| English | Chinese |
|---|---|
| The mother gives tea to her child at home. | 母亲在家给孩子茶。 |
| The student reads a new book at school. | 学生在学校读一本新书。 |
| The man drinks cold water today. | 男人今天喝冷水。 |
| The girl eats fresh bread in the room. | 女孩在房间里吃新鲜面包。 |
| My friend wants a sweet cake and milk at the cafe. | 我的朋友在咖啡馆想要甜蛋糕和牛奶。 |
| The old doctor knows the name of this person. | 这位老医生知道这个人的名字。 |
| The family has a big house in the city. | 这个家庭在城市里有一所大房子。 |
| The father sees a black car on the road. | 父亲在路上看见一辆黑色的汽车。 |
| The young girl goes to the small white house at night. | 年轻女孩在晚上去白色的小房子。 |
| A visitor arrives at the station with a ticket on the platform. | 一位游客拿着票到达车站的站台。 |
| My friend drinks good coffee and eats breakfast at the table. | 我的朋友在桌子旁喝好咖啡，吃早饭。 |
| We eat lunch at the restaurant, and there is a plate with chicken and vegetables on the table. | 我们在餐馆吃午饭，桌子上有一个装着鸡肉和蔬菜的盘子。 |
| The food smells bad because the fish has spoiled. | 食物闻起来很难闻，因为鱼变质了。 |
| The cook says dinner is chicken and rice. | 厨师说晚饭是鸡肉和米饭。 |
Word by word
70 Chinese words those phrases teach
Every word below is shown in the form it takes in its phrase, so it may be inflected rather than the dictionary form. In the game each one comes with a picture and audio.
| English | Chinese, as used in the phrase |
|---|---|
| mother | 母亲 |
| give | 给 |
| tea | 茶 |
| child | 孩子 |
| home | 家 |
| student | 学生 |
| read | 读 |
| new | 新 |
| book | 书 |
| school | 学校 |
| man | 男人 |
| drink | 喝 |
| cold | 冷 |
| water | 水 |
| today | 今天 |
| girl | 女孩 |
| eat | 吃 |
| fresh | 新鲜 |
| bread | 面包 |
| room | 房间 |
| want | 想要 |
| sweet | 甜 |
| cake | 蛋糕 |
| milk | 牛奶 |
| cafe | 咖啡馆 |
| old | 老 |
| doctor | 医生 |
| know | 知道 |
| name | 名字 |
| person | 人 |
| family | 家庭 |
| have | 有 |
| big | 大 |
| house | 房子 |
| city | 城市 |
| father | 父亲 |
| see | 看见 |
| black | 黑色 |
| car | 汽车 |
| road | 路 |
| young | 年轻 |
| go | 去 |
| small | 小 |
| white | 白色 |
| night | 晚上 |
| visitor | 游客 |
| arrive | 到达 |
| station | 车站 |
| ticket | 票 |
| platform | 站台 |
| friend | 朋友 |
| good | 好 |
| coffee | 咖啡 |
| breakfast | 早饭 |
| table | 桌子 |
| restaurant | 餐馆 |
| lunch | 午饭 |
| chicken | 鸡肉 |
| vegetable | 蔬菜 |
| plate | 盘子 |
| food | 食物 |
| smell | 闻起来 |
| bad | 难闻 |
| fish | 鱼 |
| spoil | 变质了 |
| cook | 厨师 |
| say | 说 |
| dinner | 晚饭 |
| be | 是 |
| rice | 米饭 |
Useful starting points
Build vocabulary by situation
These are three of 21 topic packs. A pack feeds you new words one at a time, each translated into Chinese.
Travel vocabulary in Chinese
Use the travel pack for Chinese transport and accommodation words such as plane, train, hotel, and room.
Preview the pack →Food vocabulary in Chinese
Use the food pack for everyday Chinese words such as apple, banana, orange, lemon, and grape.
Preview the pack →Questions
Learning Chinese with MemDecks
Can I translate Chinese back into English?
Yes. The translator supports the English–Chinese learning pair in either direction while keeping Chinese as the study language.
Do Chinese cards include transliteration?
MemDecks can show transliteration alongside Chinese script, helping beginners connect spelling and pronunciation while they learn the alphabet.
Can I choose which words to study?
Yes. Translate and save your own useful words, or follow a themed word pack and practise those cards through the app.
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