HSK, Mandarin Pinyin Variant & Chinese idioms
Teachers and bloggers can link here as a chengyu archive tied to the same daily mandarin pinyin variant / Chinese idiom puzzle you play in the browser. 成语猜词 uses a large high-frequency (THUOCL-style) idiom pool — not yet split by official HSK hanzi lists — but every daily answer page includes pinyin, English gloss, and a usage example you can reuse in HSK-style lessons.
How to use this with HSK prep
- HSK 1–2: read answer pages for exposure; repeat aloud with pinyin from each page.
- HSK 3–4: mine example sentences and teach collocations around each idiom.
- HSK 5–6: assign "explain this chengyu in Chinese" using meanings from the archive.
- All Levels: Check out the Chinese Idiom Categories categorized by difficulty and theme.
Recent answer pages (internal links)
Dates below are UTC calendar days (same as the live puzzle rollover). Open any date for definitions suitable for lesson snippets:
- September 6, 2026 — read answer & example
- September 5, 2026 — read answer & example
- September 4, 2026 — read answer & example
- September 3, 2026 — read answer & example
- September 2, 2026 — read answer & example
- September 1, 2026 — read answer & example
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- August 27, 2026 — read answer & example
- August 26, 2026 — read answer & example
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- August 17, 2026 — read answer & example