Inkoya

Find the character

Chinese characters for the idea you have in mind.

Type an idea in English. Inkoya shows you the characters a Chinese reader would actually use for it, tells you where the obvious choice would mislead you, and gives you a transparent PNG to take away.

1000 concepts, searchable from the box above.

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What makes this different

Traditional and simplified, together

Every character is shown in both forms with Zhuyin and Pinyin. Most tools pick one side and leave you guessing about the other.

Four calligraphy scripts

Seal, regular, running and brush, each from a different properly licensed typeface — not a system font pretending to be calligraphy.

A file you can take away

Transparent PNG at 1000px and 4000px. Everything else in this space leaves the character on the screen.

It tells you when you are wrong

The character that translates your word is often not the character a Chinese reader would choose. Every page says so plainly.

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