Terms of use
Wenmang is a free Mandarin vocabulary and handwriting game, run as a personal project. These terms are short because the arrangement is simple: use it, and it costs you nothing and promises you nothing.
Using it
You may use Wenmang for your own learning, for free, with or without an account. You are asked not to attempt to break it, overload it, or use it to store or distribute anything unrelated to learning Chinese.
Your account
Signing in is optional and exists only to carry your progress between devices. You are responsible for the Google account you sign in with. You can stop at any time by signing out, and delete everything yourself from Account → Delete my account. See the privacy policy for what is stored.
No guarantees
This is provided as is. There is no guarantee that it will be available, that your progress will be preserved, or that the vocabulary is free of mistakes. It is a study aid, not a teacher, and not a substitute for one.
The service may change or stop entirely without notice. If you want your progress somewhere safe, Move progress in the footer hands you a copy you keep yourself.
The vocabulary and the characters
Words are Mandarin in simplified characters, with US English glosses. Pinyin is machine-checked against the Unicode Han Database, one syllable per character, so the tones shown should be right — but the vocabulary has not been reviewed by a native speaker. Register and naturalness are the parts a machine cannot check, and a word marked correct here may not be the one somebody would actually use.
Stroke order is shown as recorded in the character data described below. Handwriting conventions vary, and a stroke order taught in a classroom may differ from the one shown here.
Where the data comes from
Character stroke shapes and stroke order come from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts and used under the Arphic Public License. Your browser fetches that data from the jsDelivr CDN as you practise; see the privacy policy.
Radical and stroke-count data comes from the Unicode Han Database, used under the Unicode License. The drawing library is hanzi-writer, MIT licensed. Full notices are in the project's NOTICE file.
The name
文盲 (wénmáng) means illiterate — literally "writing-blind". It is meant as a joke about where every learner starts, and no insult is intended by it.
The code
The source is public at github.com/ryan-mapa/wenmang. Anything you can read there is what is actually running here.
Contact
Last updated 6 September 2026.