Chinese Word Search
Mandarin Chinese words in pinyin, the Latin spelling taught in Chinese class: nihao and xiexie, laoshi and xuesheng, baba and mama, jiaozi and kuaizi, the xiongmao and the long, and the city of Beijing. Tone marks are left off, as in most printed puzzles.
Mandarin is a tonal language: the same syllable said with a level, rising, dipping or falling pitch makes four different words. Ma can mean mother, as in mama, or hemp, horse or scold, which is why pinyin normally carries a mark over the vowel. China adopted pinyin in 1958 to help people learn the characters, the hanzi, and a reader needs about three thousand of them to get through a newspaper.
Many words are built from smaller ones. A panda is xiongmao, bear cat, and China is Zhongguo, the middle kingdom. Putonghua, common speech, is the name for standard Mandarin, which has more native speakers than any other language, over 900 million. At Chunjie, the Spring Festival, children receive hongbao, red envelopes of money, because red is the color of luck.
Free Chinese Word Search Online Game
Play the Chinese word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.
Chinese Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Chinese word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
Print or Download pdfMedium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
Print or Download pdfEasy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
Print or Download pdf
Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Chinese has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Baba
- Baozi
- Beijing
- Cha
- Chunjie
- Didi
- Duibuqi
- Gege
- Gou
- Hanzi
- Hongbao
- Jiaozi
- Jiejie
- Kuaile
- Kuaizi
- Laoshi
- Long
- Mama
- Meimei
- Miantiao
- Mifan
- Mingzi
- Nihao
- Pengyou
- Pingguo
- Pinyin
- Putonghua
- Shengri
- Shufa
- Shui
- Taiyang
- Xiexie
- Xiongmao
- Xuesheng
- Xuexiao
- Yanhua
- Yueliang
- Zaijian
- Zhongguo
- Zhongwen