About Pinyin Sheets
Who runs this site
Hi, I'm Xin. I'm a parent living in Beijing, and I build small, practical tools in my spare time. I'm not a professional Chinese teacher and I don't claim any teaching qualification. I'm a parent who has spent a lot of evenings making handwriting sheets.
Why it exists
Children learning Chinese, whether in a Chinese primary school or a weekend heritage-language class abroad, do a lot of writing practice in 田字格 (tianzige) squares. Ready-made worksheets rarely match the characters a child is actually learning that week, and making your own by hand, with the pinyin above each square, takes ages.
Pinyin Sheets does one job: you paste the text you need, and you get a clean sheet to print. The articles cover the questions that come up while you use it: tones, the pinyin chart, tone changes, and which characters to start with.
How we use AI
We want to be upfront about this:
- Drafts are AI-assisted. We use AI tools to help draft articles and to structure data such as the pinyin charts.
- A human reviews every page before it's published. Each article and data file is read and fact-checked against its sources by a person. Pinyin in examples is checked character by character.
- Sources are linked. Factual claims link to their sources, preferably official ones such as China's Ministry of Education and national language standards. Each article ends with a source list.
- Mistakes happen, and we fix them. If you spot an error (a wrong tone mark, a wrong reading, a broken link), please email contact@xinlab.ccwu.cc. We correct pages and update the "updated" date.
What this site is not
It isn't a course and it doesn't replace a teacher. If your child's school or textbook follows a particular convention, such as how to mark tone changes, follow that.