Hanzi Gacha:
Words Edition
Open a pack. Find an unexpected Chinese phrase. Collect rare vocabulary, read its meaning, and battle with your cards — a tiny world of Chinese to discover, one five-card pack at a time.
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How to play
Choose All Words, Chengyu (Idioms), or Internet Slang before opening a five-card pack. There are 10,450 unique entries: 10,180 original vocabulary and everyday-expression entries, plus 270 additional idiom and slang cards. The 258-idiom and 74-slang theme pools include existing words that also belong to those categories, without duplicate collection entries. Seven rarity tiers determine collectible value and game-only ATK/DEF. You begin with 10 free packs; they recover at one per minute, and every tenth opened pack is a Gold Pack guaranteeing at least one SR+ card. All three themes use the same free packs and tenth-pack SR+ guarantee. You can collect duplicates, build a five-card team, fight automatic card battles, or try a daily raid boss. No quizzes are required.
Are all 10,450 cards commonly spoken Chinese?
No. The library includes beginner vocabulary, advanced HSK learning words, classical idioms, and a small handpicked set of online slang. Slang popularity is time-dependent, and an online joke may not be suitable for formal Mandarin. Advanced entries are collectible discoveries, not claims that they are all everyday high-frequency phrases. Rarity and combat stats are our game design, not official HSK scores or measured linguistic frequency. Word definitions are intentionally short: click any card to explore more detailed senses in the external MDBG dictionary. Sentence cards include English translations; individual sentence pinyin can be explored externally. Some emerging slang may not yet appear in standard dictionaries; those cards use brief English context notes and can be pronounced through a compatible device speech engine. Selected idiom and slang cards also include original Chinese example sentences, English usage notes and simple cultural explanations. Three collection albums offer one-time free-pack rewards for milestone completion.
Word sources and licensing
Vocabulary is derived from Complete HSK Vocabulary (Yanis Zafirópulos; MIT compilation). The original English dictionary glosses derive from CC-CEDICT (community editors / MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0). The 281 expressions and translations are from HSK Sentences Audio (no7z, dataset CC BY-SA 4.0). The 258 idioms with pinyin and English glosses are derived from krmanik/chinese-chengyu (Mani, CC BY-SA 4.0; CC-CEDICT-derived meanings). The 74 internet slang entries are selected from China Meme Dictionary (MIT), verified against chinese-meme-dict (sky and Nan, CC BY 4.0) where available, and supplemented with originally written English glosses informed by official 2025 Chinese internet slang selections. Derived card data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0, with simplification, deduplication, gameplay categorization, and text-length limits applied. This site is independent of the datasets' authors, MDBG, and Wikigacha.
Free and local
There is no real-money gacha, paid currency, account, server-side save, or online opponent. Your card collection is stored in this browser, and offline replay works after the game's files have been fully cached. Changing devices or clearing browser storage will not restore the collection. Browser clock changes can affect pack refill and the daily raid. The game's previous single-character prototype used a different save and does not overwrite this new collection.
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