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About this tool
Generate authentic Chinese characters by category with meanings, pinyin, stroke counts, and Unicode. Copy, favorite, and download as PNG/SVG.
The Chinese Character Generator draws from a curated set of 180 Chinese characters organised into 15 themes — luck, love, peace, strength, wisdom, nature, zodiac, family, success, business and more — and shows each one with its pinyin including tone marks, English meaning, stroke count and Unicode codepoint. You can pull a random character, search by meaning or pinyin, browse a category, and save what you like to favourites. Any card can be copied as text or downloaded as a high-resolution PNG or a standalone SVG that carries the glyph and its metadata.
Open Chinese Character Generator on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Open the Search tab and type an English meaning, a pinyin syllable or the exact glyph — the field suggests dragon, love, 福 — or pick one of the category chips (All, Common Characters, Lucky Characters, Love, Peace, Strength, Wisdom, Nature, Zodiac, Family, Success, Business, Happiness, Japanese Kanji-style, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese). The count above the grid reads 12 results for a single category, and Random results opens one card at random.
Each card shows the glyph with its pinyin and English meaning, plus Strokes, Unicode and Category tiles, a row of visually similar characters, and the Traditional or Simplified counterpart where the entry has one. Clicking a card opens it on the Generator tab and records it in History, which keeps the last 60.
Save keeps a card in the Favorites tab; the icon buttons beside it are Copy character, Download PNG and Download SVG — saved as character-<glyph>-<codepoint>.png and .svg — and Share, which copies the glyph, pinyin, meaning and codepoint when the browser has no share sheet.
Glyphs, tone-marked pinyin, stroke counts and Unicode codepoints come from a hand-verified dataset rather than machine transliteration.
Characters that were simplified carry their traditional variant and its own codepoint, so 寿 also shows 壽 (U+58FD).
PNG renders at 3x pixel ratio for print, and the SVG is vector with the glyph, pinyin, meaning, strokes, Unicode and category baked in.
Fu (福, U+798F, 13 strokes) is the standard character for fortune and blessing, the one hung upside-down on doors at Lunar New Year. It is usually grouped with lu (禄, prosperity) and shou (寿, longevity) as the three blessings.
180 characters across 15 categories, from foundational ones like 人, 水 and 山 through themed sets for luck, love, zodiac, business and success, plus traditional, simplified and Japanese kanji-style groupings.
Stroke count is how characters are ordered in a Chinese dictionary and how handwriting is taught, so it tells you the writing complexity — 人 is 2 strokes, 福 is 13. Each count in this dataset is verified against the standard form of the glyph shown.
The characters themselves are ordinary Unicode text and carry no licence, so you are free to use them. Do check the meaning fits your intent though: many characters shift meaning in combination, and a native speaker's read is worth getting before anything permanent.