Characters

Mandarin Poster includes the 1500 most frequently used Chinese characters. It's a combination of modern frequency lists to ensure it's up to date and relevant.

Quality

Mandarin Poster is printed on high quality 200g paper and then laminated for protection. It's also shipped in a protective poster tube to ensure it gets to you in one piece.

Learning

Learning Chinese isn't easy, so you need all the help you can get. Knowing the most frequently used characters can help you read over 90% of Chinese texts.

Version

Mandarin poster is available in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese versions, so no matter where you're learning Chinese we have a poster for you!

Usage

The key to learning a language is immersion and by hanging Mandarin Poster in a place where you'll see it often can help reinforce the characters you have learned.

Shipping

We ship worldwide for free! The price you see is the price you pay. All posters are shipped in protective tubes by airmail and take around 14 days to most destinations.

Write on it!

Mandarin Poster is laminated, which means you can use a white board marker to mark off the words you have learned. Plus we're giving away a FREE marker pen with every order! Learn more

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Chinese Radicals

We've started a new project here at Mandarin Poster to catalogue all of the existing Mandarin Chinese radicals and provide the pronunciation (both Pinyin and Zhuyin), variations, and examples for each individual radical. Our aim is to provide a Chinese radicals reference for beginners to Chinese so they can quickly view a radical and see all of the ways that it may be used in a Chinese character.

In addition to the standard set of Radicals, we'll also soon have our set of 'essential radicals' online - the radicals that we consider essential to learn a basic level of Chinese. Since not all radicals are in common use it makes sense to dedicate more time to the most commonly used radicals.

Lastly, call us crazy, but we also believe that there should be more radicals than the 'official' set. So in the coming weeks we'll be adding to a database of 'new radicals' - character parts that are commonly used yet not part of the official set. Select a radical from the right to get started.